This unique, easy-to-implement, and highly effective discussion process is based on years of experience in teaching and leading discussion groups worldwide. Through participation in Sharing Circles, students get to know who they are, how they function, how they relate to others, and they learn to believe in themselves.

"Lessons in Tolerance and Diversity" is designed to provide teachers and counselors with tools to help reduce racial, religious, ethnic, and social prejudice in their schools and to promote tolerance and the celebration of diversity.

Thought-provoking questions and pages of striking graphics encourage students to explore their feelings, thoughts, attitudes, values, doubts and dilemmas and to write about them. A great resource for counselors, teachers and parents.

Succinct, timely, and cost-effective, Don't Get Hooked: Tobacco Awareness and Prevention Activities provides everything counselors, teachers, and all those who work with kids need to educate students about tobacco use and prevention. Sections cover the following focus areas: Learning about Nicotine Media Influences Refusal Skills Each of these is developed through brief, interesting discussions and fun, memorable activities for individuals, small groups, and classrooms. This book provides up-to-date information about nicotine as a drug and is based on sound practice and current research.

Kids love these fun, enjoyable, delightfully illustrated ready-to-use worksheets. Eighty-eight separate activity pages involve students in the development of their own self-concept, confidence, awareness, and resiliency.

Through these easy-to-implement, high-interest activities, children learn new and effective skills and behaviors for getting along with others and managing their own emotions.Social-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 and considerately with...

What better way to develop character in your students than by involving them in relevant discussions about ethics and moral reasoning? Sharing Circles are a character development super-strategy, and this book is filled with examples of this powerful and versatile social-emotional learning tool. Help students learn the value of virtue and how to develop and draw on inner reserves of moral conviction. Inspiring topics cover such areas as: empathy respect open-mindedness fairness generosity forgiveness perseverance responsibility trustworthiness honesty citizenship positive attitude courage

Sharing Circles are the EQ super-strategy and this book is chock full of them! What better way to develop the emotional intelligence of your students than by participation in relevant discussions about things that are important to them. This powerful and versatile instructional strategy is unusually effective as a tool for developing self-awareness, self-control, the ability to understand and manage feelings, empathy, cooperation, responsibility, communication, strategies for managing conflict and stress, and group interaction skills. A must-have addition to your EQ repertoire. This book...

This reference can help underachieving students learn that they can be in charge of their own achievement by giving them the awareness and tools to do so.

These immediately usable and highly impactful activities naturally draw out the best in students and inspire the development of universally valued character traits.