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Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 3 (Grade 8 Theater): Ensemble Focus and Trust

Build Grade 8 ensemble theater skills with lessons on focus, trust, rehearsal discipline, movement, timing, and purposeful physicality.

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Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 2 (Grade 8 Theater): What Makes Theater Work?

Build Grade 8 theater vocabulary with lessons on actors, audience, story, conflict, design, technical elements, and performance analysis.

Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade 8 Theater): Welcome to Grade 8 Theater

Introduce Grade 8 theater with ensemble norms, respectful risk-taking, rehearsal expectations, audience behavior, and intentional performance choices.

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3-5 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5): Spy School Geography - Cracking Codes with Maps, Coordinates, and Landforms

Turn grades 3-5 geography into a spy mission using maps, directions, coordinates, symbols, scale, landforms, and map evidence.

The Admin Angle Featured

The Admin Angle: Rethinking MTSS Meetings

Simplify MTSS meetings with shorter referrals, focused data, clear intervention cycles, and faster decisions that improve student support.

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Sensory-Smart Learning Zones: Designing Classrooms for Focus, Regulation, and Inclusion

Create sensory-smart classroom zones that support focus, movement, collaboration, and regulation for more inclusive learning environments.

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6-8 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8): Soundtrack to a Novel - Using Music to Analyze Mood, Character, and Theme

Engage grades 6-8 ELA students in a literary soundtrack project using music, mood, character analysis, theme, and textual evidence.

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K-2 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades K-2): Animal Builders Blueprint Challenge - Habitats, Structures, and Creative Problem-Solving

Explore animal habitats through a hands-on STEM challenge where K–2 students investigate nests, webs, burrows, and hives, then design and build their own animal structure models.

Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade K Counselor): Kindergarten Counselor Celebration

Celebrate Kindergarten counseling skills with feelings, calming tools, friendship, problem-solving, safe choices, trusted adults, and school success.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 35 (Grade K Counselor): Look How I Have Grown

Celebrate Kindergarten growth with before-and-now reflection, feelings, calming tools, friendship skills, school confidence, and small goals.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 34 (Grade K Counselor): Classroom Helpers and Leaders

Build Kindergarten helper and leader skills with strengths, belonging, kind choices, classroom routines, listening, and helping actions.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 33 (Grade K Counselor): Safe, Kind, and Respectful Choices

Review Kindergarten safe, kind, and respectful choices with picture sorting, body boundaries, helpful actions, and adult-help decisions.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 32 (Grade K Counselor): Friendship Skills Review

Review Kindergarten friendship skills with kindness, sharing, taking turns, listening, inviting others, and good friend reflection.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 31 (Grade K Counselor): Feelings and Coping Review

Review Kindergarten feelings and coping with emotion words, calm-down toolbox tools, feeling-to-strategy matching, and trusted adult help.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 30 (Grade K Counselor): Problem-Solving Practice Stations

Give Kindergarten students problem-solving practice with stations, puppet role-play, safe choice sorting, peer scripts, and adult-help decisions.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 29 (Grade K Counselor): Who Can Help Me?

Review Kindergarten trusted adults and help-seeking with problem-to-adult matching, big feelings, school needs, and safe support words.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 28 (Grade K Counselor): Responsible Choices in the Classroom

Teach Kindergarten responsibility with classroom choices, listening, cleanup, safe material use, helping classmates, and small school goals.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 27 (Grade K Counselor): Keep Trying When It Is Hard

Build Kindergarten perseverance with try-again phrases, calming tools, small goals, help-seeking, and confidence for hard school tasks.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 26 (Grade K Counselor): Respecting Body Boundaries

Teach Kindergarten body boundaries with personal space, safe greetings, boundary words, trusted adults, and respectful safe choices.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 25 (Grade K Counselor): Including Others

Teach Kindergarten inclusion with kind invitations, making room, sharing, taking turns, noticing left-out feelings, and classroom belonging.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 24 (Grade K Counselor): Saying Sorry and Making It Better

Teach Kindergarten apology and repair with sorry words, feelings, helpful actions, puppet practice, and respectful problem-solving.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 23 (Grade K Counselor): Solving Friend Problems with Words

Teach Kindergarten friend problem-solving with safe words, simple scripts, stop-think choices, respectful solutions, and adult help.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 22 (Grade K Counselor): Handling Anger Safely

Teach Kindergarten anger management with body clues, safe calming tools, respectful words, adult help, and peer problem-solving practice.

The Admin Angle

The Admin Angle: Protecting Planning Time

Protect teacher planning time with principal strategies for duty audits, meeting limits, emergency coverage rules, and stronger instructional support.

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3-5 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5): Toy Designer Workshop - Inventing, Testing, and Advertising a Kid-Created Product

Create a grades 3-5 toy design STEM challenge with prototyping, testing, product descriptions, honest ads, and persuasive pitches.