Social and Emotional Skill Building

**Please email brownl@portlandschools.org to request materials from any of these categories for social and emotional skill building tools and curriculum:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (includes tools for reducing negative thinking)

• Executive Functioning (includes worksheets for impulse control, emotion regulation, flexible thinking, working memory, self monitoring, task initiation, planning, prioritizing, and organizing)

• Second Step (includes range of age appropriate lessons and activities for developing skills ranging from listening, concentrating, and taking turns to communication, assertiveness, empathy and respect)

• Sensory Strategies (information about different kinds of sensory processing challenges and accommodations that can be made to reduce aversive reactions)

• Social Skills (review of social scenarios that can present as challenging when still developing social skills and scripted responses for navigating them)

• Superflex (Superflex Curriculum-- Superflex is a superhero with the power of super flexible thinking that can defeat the "Unthinkables" who are the villains of Social Town and demonstrate inflexibility and barriers to enjoying and succeeding in social scenarios)

• Zones of Regulation (Curriculum that instructs in 4 zones of regulation and strategies or "tools" for getting out of the blue, yellow or red zones and into the green zone where a student is ready to learn) More information about the Zones of Regulation can also be found here.