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.

This is a lesson to encourage students to go outdoors and engage their world despite living in a pandemic. 

This playbook includes resources created, curated, and adapted by the ITSs and LMSs at Ocean Lakes High School to support virtual, concurrent, and hybrid learning. Use this playbook to find resources and strategies to make lessons more interactive and engaging, streamline workflow, and foster a sense of community in your classroom. ✍Note to Reader - Due to restricted sharing permissions, some linked resources may not be accessible to individuals outside of the VBCPS school division.  All linked resources were publicly & freely shared; paid resources have not been included in the Playbook.  Efforts have been made to retroactively include attributions for authors for original content & derivatives.   

We can’t expect our students to be engaged or do their  best if we haven’t created an environment where students feel: safe to try, fail & try again, supported,encouraged, their opinions & ideas matter, they have a voice & choices in how they learn.

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.

The focus of this episode is to understand the importance of developing problem solving skills and ways to make positive decisions. This lesson works through the many character traits that students will learn in Kindergarten that will grow with them throughout life.

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

These emotion wheels were designed to be used as a starting point with students to help increasetheir emotional literacy. Emotional literacy is the ability to name and communicate your feelings;people with strong emotional literacy skills tend to have greater awareness of both their ownemotions and those of others.

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

When world events suddenly shift our perspective and present overwhelming concerns, thinking like an artist can offer a way to creatively reflect on and process our days. Use the art, videos, and ideas in this lesson concept to help students explore ways to visually articulate their experiences by considering the colors, objects, and materials they encounter throughout their days.

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. 

Curriculum Framework with strategies, resources, and essential considerations for school staff implementing Virginia's SEL Standards.

This podcast is meant to help students identify how to regulate impulses. Whether it be calling out, running onto line, or other behaviors that require us to think things through. The goal of this podcast is to give students strategies to “slow” things down and “think” things through.

This podcast is meant to help students identify how their emotions can affect their ability to learn. We will work on breathing, stretching and movements that will descalate a student’s emotions. The goal is to transition away from anger and excitement and into a zone that is conducive to learning.

Podcast Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GPUdy40At8IVf-2tjrYnU_R1im6lOsja/view

The focus of this episode is to work through exploring the various emotions a child may experience throughout the day, what those feel like, and different positive ways of handling each emotion.

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