IntroductionThe 2020 Health Standards of Learning:Support for the Instruction of Opioid Awareness and Prevention Instructional Guide, a companion document to the 2020 Health Standards of Learning, amplifies the Standards of Learning by defining the core knowledge and skills in practice and supporting teachers and their opioid awareness and prevention instruction. The local curriculum should include a variety of information sources, readings, learning experiences, and forms of assessment selected at the local level to create a rigorous instructional program.The Instructional Guide is divided into three sections:Understanding the Standard,Skills in Practice, andConcepts and Connections aligned to the Standard.

Learn all about your students with this About Me Handout! Teachers can give to students on the first day/week of school. Great for starting conversations, get to know you activities, or just to know about eah student.

Checkout these trading cards featuring VA graduates thriving in their new careers. Disseminate one card a month for students to color and explore (there is a video accessible via QR code on each), incorporate them into your career exploration lessons, create a bulletin board, or share with teachers for possible alignment with their curriculum, shrink so they are pocket size and encourage students to collect or trade their cards! There are so many ways to incorporate this ready to use resources into your program- we can’t wait to see the many creative uses school counselors come up with.

Allow students the opportunity to explore their career goals! This activity will allow them to develop their research skills and provide a hands-on experience to help stretch their perspective. Let your students guide themselves into discovering new career path options!

Intentional planning of Tier I supports provides all students essential opportunities to acquire new skills and more powerful opportunities for development when immersed throughout collaborative daily learning.  Using the Curriculum Map is a great way for staff to combine efforts that focus on strengthening skills, knowledge and behaviors which often makes a greater impact on overall student development.

Curriculum Mapping Tool for school counselors to use to align program with VA SEL Standards and collaborate with other educators in their buildings to increase impact.

This guide contains links to free resources that align with each of the SEL standards assigned to this gradeband. 

Skills: This activity has the potential to develop and enhance student’s emotional literacy, emotional regulation, social awareness, feelings of connection, empathy, and self-expression.Includes directions for staff wellness and developmentIncorporates: CBT Materials: Emotions Wheel, Sticky NotesThis versatile tool can be used in individual, group, classroom lessons, journaling prompts, and more!KEY CONCEPTS:Emotions are how your mind reacts to an experience.Emotions drive your decisions.These emotion wheels were inspired by Plutchik’s Emotion Wheel. To put it simply, an emotions wheel is a chart with primary emotions in the center that fans out with more specific emotions. It is a tool that will help your students learn to name what they’re feeling so they can become more self-aware and process their feelings more fully. There are four emotion wheel options. Select the best one for your students based on their age and developmental level. The grade levels below are only meant as a guide, you know your students best, select the wheel you think is the most appropriate.

Three easily applied exit ticket examples that can be easily implemented for ANY lesson (elementary - high). Simple way to collect data and measure student learning!

Black and white images that can be cut into cards for counseling sessions, given to students to label or given to students with assigned feelings for activities. 

This fidget book was designed to be used in digital citizenship and internet safety lessons for elementary students. It has lesson supports, coloring pages, self-reflection guides and more. 

This guide contains links to free resources that align with each of the SEL standards assigned to this gradeband. 

This guide contains links to free resources that align with each of the SEL standards assigned to this gradeband. 

This tool is a simple way to collect some data on the frequency of a desired or undesired behavior prior to a lesson or intervention. For example, if a teacher shares that calling out is a major concern you could observe a lesson for 30 minutes and record the number of times students call out during that time (by putting a check mark in a circle). Then after delivering instruction on the importance of being respectful and not interupting instruction do an observation for the same time period and see if there was improvement!NOTE: You could also as a teacher to collect the data for you!

The 7 Cups and VBCPS Growth PathsPersonalized Growth Paths contain activities made for those dealing with a certain situation. It helps a person understand what they are dealing with and self-heal with activities that are expertly compiled.There is also a “gamified” element to the Paths. Students complete “Steps” to fill their cups and move ahead on their chosen path.You can find text, slides, and videos  here or the Gratitue Growth Path on 7 Cups as well with a free membership.

This guide contains links to free resources that align with each of the SEL standards assigned to this gradeband. 

This guide contains links to free resources that align with each of the SEL standards assigned to this gradeband.