Listen to the Prosocially Yours podcast with Dr. Jaime. The Power Up program brings gamification and fun classroom activities to the teaching of social and emotional learning skills. Students will enjoy the challenge of earning skill icons and navigating the Power Up game board, all while practicing valuable self-awareness and relationship skills. Power Up lessons cover each of the core areas of SEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. The fun, easy-to-use program offers step-by-step guidance on each lesson and the flexibility to tailor the program to your own students’ needs. You’ll find curricula for daily lessons, small groups, and virtual classrooms as well as all handouts and game materials. Power Up provides everything you need to introduce SEL skills: • The program includes a complete curriculum for teaching the five core SEL skills in brief daily sessions across 30 lessons. As an alternate format, the included small group curriculum enables instructors to use the program to teach one skill domain in a concentrated six-to-eight-week period. • The program offers scripts and adapted exercises for teaching the lessons virtually. • Power Up sets up instructors for success, providing step-by-step guidance and classroom materials for all program curricula. Each lesson includes objectives and success criteria, handy lists of required materials, student handouts and game materials, and session outlines that provide instructors with suggested scripts, sequencing of activities, and teaching tips. • You’ll find all game boards, icons, and classroom-display skill cutouts — all beautifully designed and ready to use. • To help keep the sessions running smoothly, the program offers instructor materials for all versions of Power Up. Teacher supports include checklists, displayable lesson objectives, and sample permission forms and letters to parents and guardians — many available as downloadable files. • The Introduction and Program Overview provides insight into the research informing Power Up as well as practical tips on implementation, further strengthening instructor confidence and program success. Reviews: “As a school counselor, I appreciate the ready-to-use lessons that I can easily implement in a comprehensive school counseling program through classroom, group, or virtual sessions. Power Up is a practical SEL curriculum with strategies to teach students self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship, and responsible decision-making skills. This valuable resource helps students learn and practice SEL skills throughout their school day. Dr. Dombrowski has created an innovative program grounded in SEL research that appeals to all educators.” – Donna Williams Lyons, Ed. S., School Counselor “Power Up is a fun and engaging curriculum that uses a student’s natural interests to interact with appealing visuals and learn through play to enhance vital skills for their academic, emotional, and social success.” –Ashley Sanders, Licensed Mental Health Counselor “Power Up is an excellent curriculum to help students learn and improve their SEL skills. Throughout my career I’ve always looked for ready to use and practical lessons that can be easily implemented, and Power Up delivers. School Counselors and teachers will enjoy the integration of gamification to facilitate the delivery of the SEL concepts.” –José A. Rivera Navarro, Ed.S., Mental Health Counseling Manager, Florida Virtual School Table of Contents: Acknowledgments ix Introduction and Program Overview 1 The Five Domains of Social and Emotional Learning 3 Gamification of Learning 8 The Power Up Program 9 Curriculum and Lessons 10 Implementations of Power Up 11 Before You Set Up the Program 14 During the Program 15 Further Thoughts 17 Introductory Lessons Lesson 1: Icebreaker 23 Lesson 2: Getting to Know Me 35 Lesson 3: Getting to Know You 41 Self-Awareness Lesson 4: The Power Up Board and Building a Feelings Vocabulary 51 Lesson 5: Rewind Mode: Building a Feelings Vocabulary 67 Lesson 6: Fast-Forward Mode: Building a Feelings Vocabulary 79 Lesson 7: Triggers, Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors 91 Lesson 8: Resiliency 107 Self-Management Lesson 9: Pause, Think, Play 119 Lesson 10: Slowing Down Strategies 129 Lesson 11: Slowing Down Strategies, Continued 141 Lesson 12: Energizing Strategies 153 Lesson 13: Goal Setting and Time Management 169 Social Awareness Lesson 14: My Pillars 181 Lesson 15: Building Empathy 189 Lesson 16: Building Empathy, Continued 199 Lesson 17: Working in a Group 209 Lesson 18: Respectfully Disagreeing 223 Relationship Skills Lesson 19: Friendships 233 Lesson 20: Communicating Our Wants and Needs 239 Lesson 21: Building Social Skills Using the CREATE Acronym, Part 1 247 Lesson 22: Building Social Skills Using the CREATE Acronym, Part 2 257 Lesson 23: The Interview 267 Responsible Decision-Making Lesson 24: The Brain 275 Lesson 25: MAGIC, Part 1 283 Lesson 26: MAGIC, Part 2 289 Lesson 27: Understanding Rules 299 Lesson 28: Rules for My Small Country 305 Capstone Project Lesson 29: Becoming the Teacher 311 Lesson 30: Presenting My Skill 319 Appendix A: Support Materials 323 Appendix B: Power Up for Small Groups 329 Implementing the Small Group Format 329 Using the Power Up Game Board and Icons 330 Support Materials 332 Small Group Lesson 1: Introduction 332 Appendix C: Small Group Power Up Game Boards 339 Appendix D: Power Up Support Materials for Small Groups 347 Small Group Lessons Summary 347 Parent Permission Slip 351 Appendix E: Power Up Lessons for the Virtual Classroom 353 References 397 About the Author 411 Sample pages [pdf download] Reproducible forms and handouts for this title can be found on the publisher's downloads page . About the Author: Jaime Dombrowski, PhD, holds degrees in educational psychology and counseling. She is also a licensed mental health counselor, registered play therapist, and a certified school counselor. In addition to serving as a school counselor, she has worked with children and adolescents in community mental health. Dr. Dombrowski currently serves as an SEL Specialist for Florida Virtual School and enjoys researching the most effective strategies to support students in their social-emotional learning journey, as well as grant writing to fund and support SEL efforts. |