Counselor and teachers have access to second step lesson plans: 

Mindsets & Goals

Students learn how to develop a growth mindset and apply research-based goal-setting strategies to their social and academic lives. This unit’s content helps create classrooms that are connected and encouraging by helping students set and achieve collective and personal goals, learn from challenges, recognize their personal strengths, and explore the unique aspects of their identities.

The goals of this unit include students being able to:

• Recognize that social challenges are common during adolescence and often get better in time with support from others

• Adopt a growth mindset

• Set personal goals

• Create plans to achieve goals

• Monitor progress toward achieving a goal and determine if they need to try a new strategy

Recognizing Bullying & Harassment

Students learn how to recognize bullying and harassment, stand up safely to bullying, and respond appropriately to harassment. This unit’s content helps students develop empathy, understand the impact of bullying and harassment on individuals and their communities, and examine social and environmental factors that contribute to negative behaviors as well as identify solutions for preventing those behaviors.

The goals of this unit include students being able to:

• Recognize common types of bullying

• Understand the potential negative impacts of bullying by taking the perspective of targets and bystanders

• Assess the risks and benefits of using different upstander strategies to respond to bullying under various circumstances

• Be an upstander by making a responsible decision in bullying situations

Thoughts, Emotions & Decisions

Students learn how to recognize strong emotions and unhelpful thoughts, and they learn to apply strategies for managing their emotions and reducing stress. This unit’s content helps students understand that all emotions are valuable because they provide us with information about our environment. Students learn to respond to their emotions in ways that help meet their wants and needs.

The goals of this unit include students being able to:

• Assess when and why they are feeling a strong emotion

• Recognize that all emotions are okay, and that how they decide to respond can have positive or negative impacts on their lives

• Apply a strategy for emotion management that is best for them, based on context

Managing Relationships & Social Conflict

Students learn strategies for developing and maintaining healthy relationships, perspective-taking, and dealing with conflict. This unit’s content helps students learn to honor and understand differences based on varied personal, familial, and cultural backgrounds.

The goals of this unit include students being able to:

• Recognize the difference between minor and major social conflicts

• Describe the different perspectives of the people involved in a conflict

• Apply the four-step conflict resolution process

• Identify ways to make amends after a social conflict

District wide lesson plans:

• Suicide prevention