Whether you are a general education or SPED teacher, this book will help you to model and implement practices, lessons and processes that can not only help children to academically engage, self-regulate and socially connect, but also transform the classroom culture into a peaceful space for learning. 

While written primarily for teachers, this book can benefit you as a parent, even if you are not a home-school teacher, as parents are such important teachers for their children. As parents, we model social emotional skills for our children, constantly! The practices and processes in this book can be easily adapted for use at home.

If you are looking for a comprehensive program to address both teacher wellness and social emotional learning for students, this book offers extensive practices and processes for both. The content can be used for professional development and training in the areas of stress management, skill building to address challenging behaviors, and contextualized hands on learning practices that can overlay onto academic instruction and existing curricula. 

As school-based professionals, you help children to build social emotional learning skills in therapy, using different theory, perspectives, modalities and clinical expertise. While written as a classroom program, the activities in this book are easily integrated into therapy sessions to supplement existing activities and modalities. In addition, because of your unique knowledge-base, you can offer assistance and consultation services to assist teachers in generalizing and implementing practices and processes in the classroom.

As an occupational therapist professional, you have unique expertise in being able to see both the whole child and the environment, to promote inclusion and engagement in meaningful social and academic occupations. You can use book to add to your toolbox within your therapy sessions to address self- regulation and executive function goals, or act as a consultant to help teachers to find creative solutions to child and classroom challenges, and to implement the program for children with diverse strengths and abilities.

Communication and language are vital to social emotional wellness and learning, and to academic success. As an SLP or SLPA, your expertise is essential to the inclusive implementation of SEL programs for children with communication and language differences. This book will give you tools to supplement social and pragmatic language therapy, and offers a means to consult and collaborate with teachers who are implementing practices in the classroom.

As a mental health professional, you have extensive expertise in helping children to learn self-regulation and coping skills, executive function skills, and social skills. This book will give you a variety of hands on tools and activities that you can use during small group or individual sessions. In addition, it can give you ideas for collaborating with the teacher to generalize skills to the classroom environment by using practices not only for your client but also for the whole classroom.