The Zones of Regulation Series
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Order the all-new Getting Into the Zones of Regulation or update your tools with the new poster set
Announcing an all-new book now available!
As many of you have already heard, The Zones of Regulation® Digital Curriculum has launched. This platform is fully online and a comprehensive interactive approach to help learners understand and manage their emotions effectively. And we know that some educators, therapists, and parents prefer having a book as well to supplement their teaching toolkit. That’s why we are publishing this companion print product: Getting Into The Zones of Regulation™: The Complete Framework and Digital Curriculum Companion.
Getting Into The Zones of Regulation is the must-have print companion to The Zones of Regulation Digital Curriculum, including foundational knowledge and implementation guidance needed to teach The Zones with fidelity.
This guide orients you to the next evolution of The Zones of Regulation theory and methods and can be used in two ways: 1) to prepare you to teach the Digital Curriculum, or 2) to update your practices for those who already have the original The Zones of Regulation Curriculum.
In addition, the book includes 6 months of FREE ACCESS to Concept 1 of the Digital Curriculum so readers can try out the many features including an interactive presentation and videos, visual supports, differentiated activities, and assessments.
Getting Into The Zones of Regulation Teaching Pathways
Getting Into The Zones of Regulation orients you to the next evolution of the Zones of Regulation theory and methods.
If you prefer digital, use it to prepare you to teach the concepts and lessons in The Zones Digital Curriculum. Learn more about the subscription-based curriculum at www.zonesofregulation.com.
Or, if you prefer print, use Getting Into The Zones of Regulation to update your practices in combination with the lessons and handouts from the original The Zones of Regulation book.
Either way, Getting Into The Zones of Regulation book includes 6 months of FREE ACCESS to Concept 1 of the Digital Curriculum so readers can try out the many features including an Interactive Presentation and videos, visual supports, differentiated activities, and assessments.
Award-Winning Zones of Regulation Tools & Resources for Primary School Ages 5-11
Engage children in learning about their feelings and emotional zones with two charming, illustrated storybooks (The Road to Regulation and The Regulation Station, sold as a one-product set), The Road to Regulation Poster, which summarizes an important learning pathway, and a hands-on regulation strategy-filled Tools to Try for Cards for Kids card deck. These visual, multisensory products function at their best when all used together to supplement The Zones of Regulation curriculum. The storybooks and very practical card deck, which provides over 50 tools and strategies, can also easily be used at home and in the community to extend learning about managing within one’s Zones of Regulation. The Tools to Try Cards for Kids card deck and the 2-Storybook Set are also available as digital products. The digital storybooks include audio files.
Award-Winning Zones of Regulation Tools for Tweens & Teens Ages 11-18+
Award-winning Tools to Try Cards for Tweens &Teens was developed to speak to the hearts and minds of this age group. It provides direct instruction on 50 regulation tools and metacognitive strategies. Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is also an important resource to use with the Navigating The Zones game and its graduated competitive-play Advanced Pack. This very practical card deck travels easily and should also to be used to remind students of their choices to assist regulation of their feelings across environments (school, home, and community) to encourage their autonomy. This card deck is also available as a digital product.
Free Stuff to use with The Zones of Regulation
Resources to use at school & home
Further supplement the development of your students’ regulation as part of their social emotional learning with these free, timely strategies and tools when specifically using The Zones of Regulation curriculum to help individuals ages 5-18+. These free resources provide select examples of deeper instruction when using some of the 11 Zones of Regulation products.
We will be posting new free Zones of Regulation activities as quickly and as often as we can, so check back often!
Bundle & Save on The Zones of Regulation
Budget-Conscious Bundles of Books, Card Decks, and Games for Ages 5-18+
Explore our convenient Zones of Regulation product bundles that help teach and implement The Zones of Regulation framework, curriculum, and strategies across developmental ages in mainstream primary and secondary classrooms—and save while you’re doing it!
Save on social emotional learning tools for different age groups
The Zones of Regulation Digital Products
Explore The Zones of Regulation Strategies on Any Screen!
Make it easy to teach, explore, learn, and practice regulation and emotional control strategies on any screen with our Zones of Regulation digital products. The Zones of Regulation app and the Exploring Emotions app supplement the lessons in the curriculum book with interactive games filled with adventure and rewards. Apps available on the Apple App Store and Google.
Publications & Press on The Zones of Regulation
Evaluating the effectiveness of key components of Zones of Regulation™ curriculum training on teachers' self-efficacy at managing self-regulation needs in autistic pupils
Dec, 2023
There has been a rise in autistic pupils in the mainstream classroom. Teachers have often reported frustration caused by a lack of training on managing autistic pupils' presentations. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of an online training programme comprising the main paradigms and resources of the Zones of Regulation™ curriculum on teachers' sense of self-efficacy when managing autistic pupils' self-regulation needs in the mainstream primary school classroom.
Adelaide Fringe Festival artist Mali Isabel using art to help teach self-regulation at Carlton School
September 2023 ABC North and West SA / By Isabella Carbone
Read how artist Mali Isabel, known for the 2022 Adelaide Fringe Festival poster, helped Aboriginal children develop emotional literacy using The Zones of Regulation.
James Van Der Beek just dropped a shockingly good parenting hack
Today's Parent July 2022 / By Jessica Pollack
With six kids at home, it's no wonder James Van Der Beek has some savvy tricks in his parenting arsenal. The trick definitely calls to mind the Zones of Regulation, a framework and curriculum that educators use to help kids identify and regulate their feelings by attaching colors to different emotions.
How to Check on Your Child's Emotional Health
Sonoma County Gazette, March 2021
If you have a child with ADHD, you are probably intimately aware of the fact that people with this diagnosis often have trouble managing their feelings. There is an app from The Zones of Regulation curriculum that may be very helpful for educating children about their emotions and about learning to regulate them.
Zones of Regulation and the Brevard Public Schools School Safety and Climate Study
April, 2020
“77% reported doing better in school after program participation, and 81% reported that they are better at handling daily life.”
Calming Down and Cooling Off: Helping Children with ADHD Learn to Manage Their Emotion
Attention Magazine, August 2020
By Judith M. Glasser
If you have a child with ADHD, you are probably intimately aware of the fact that people with this diagnosis often have trouble managing their feelings. There is an app from the Zones of Regulation curriculum that may be very helpful for educating children about their emotions and about learning to regulate them.
Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Academics in Every Grade: Social And Emotional Learning Strategies Help Kids Focus on Their Classes
Edutopia, October 2015
Before students can start working on better controlling their feelings, they must be able to identify them. Symonds teachers start working with students as early as kindergarten on examining and naming their feelings. One of their tools is a framework called The Zones of Regulation.
