by Susanna Palomares and Dianne Schilling

Strategies and Activities for Creating Optimal Learning Environments Grades K-12

You will never eliminate stress from your classroom or counseling practice, nor should you.  Stress management doesn’t mean getting rid of all stress.  It means helping kids understand the stress response, identify individual and collective stressors, and learn and practice effective strategies for reducing stress and minimizing its destructive consequences.  That in a nutshell is the purpose of this book.

Less Student Stress, More School Success approaches stress management broadly.  Activities help students to understand the effects of stress on the brain, take steps to de-stress the learning environment, identify sources of stress, practice breathing and relaxation exercises, adopt habits that promote successful learning, understand the effects of nutrition and exercise on stress, and learn to more effectively manage anger and worry.

Every activity in this book provides you with optimum flexibility in its use and complete freedom to adapt the activity to fit your situation and the needs of your students.

• Published 2010 Innerchoice Publishing
• ISBN:
• Size 8 ½ x 11
• Published 2007 Pro-Ed, Inc.
• 176 pages
• Languages Sold:

by Susanna Palomares

Use these high-interest activities to help your children learn new and effective skills and behaviors for getting along with others and managing their own emotions. Social and emotional skills are fundamental to success in life, and children should be consistently helped to develop them. This rich and ready resource is packed with everything you need to bring these important skills to life with your group of kids. It’s full of stimulating, enjoyable experiences that you can grasp at a glance and use immediately. Activities help children to:

• work collaboratively with others • learn important aspects of communicating – listening, speaking, writing, and reading • value and respect individual differences • manage difficult emotions • learn refusal and resistance skills • develop a sense of belonging. 

• ISBN: 9781564990631
• Pub date:  2011, Innerchoice Publishing
• 108 Pages
• 8.5 x 11
• Languages Sold:  all languages available

by Roxanne Zusmer

Favorite Group Activities for Grades 3-8

Both new and experienced school counselors will find this exceptional handbook to be  a valuable resource that addresses the important and challenging situations they confront everyday.  Top 10 Topics will also prove valuable to counselor educators who train graduate students to do group-work.  It is filled with reproducible activities, in-depth discussion questions, sample dialogue, parental permission letters, and background information. These clearly written activities can be used in large- and small-group settings, and they do not require the purchase of additional materials. You’ll have at your fingertips information and engaging activities on the following topics:  Diversity and tolerance • Transition, mobility, and adjustment to social, economic, and cultural changes • Bully behaviors • Harassment and conflict among students • Divorce • Grief and loss • Self-awareness • Peer relationships and friendship skills • Communication skills • Goal setting and organizational skills

• Grades 3-8
• ISBN: 9781564990761
• Pub Date:  2011, Innerchoice Publishing
• 8.5 x 11
• 194 Pages
• Languages Sold:  all languages available