Focusing Skills

Aligns with CASEL 5 & The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards & Competencies

Zoned In Zeb is the twenty-sixth story from Powerful You (grades 2-adult.) Zeb helps children apply self-motivation and self- direction to learning. Zeb also fosters a positive attitude toward work and learning.

20-MINUTE LESSON PLAN

Launch Introduce the A-Z Powerful You theme.
Breathe and Stretch Practice self-awareness and self-management with the Powerful You free movement videos on this page. Simply hit play or gain a new movement idea for your toolbox.
Connect Read the true short story from the 8.5 x 11 laminated Powerful You Educator Cards.
Promote a Positive Mindset Stand tall and practice each story’s positive self-talk.
Reflect Social-awareness, relationship skills, and problem-solving skills escalate when students are given turn and talk time for each journaling prompt. Learn from them and allow optional sharing.
Role-play Students hold the Powerful You Educator Card and act out desired behaviors.
Leave an SEL Footprint Copy and display the Digital Powerful You Classroom Social Skill Sign.
Expand Use the Powerful You Kit or resources below. Make it your own! Be You! You are more powerful than you know!

Chalkboard Quotes

“Focus like a laser, not a flashlight.” Michael Jordan

“Your life is controlled by what you focus on.” Tony Robbins

“Focus on your goals, not your fear.” Roy T. Bennett

“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Focus on your character, not your reputation.

Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.” Roy T. Bennett

“Ignore the noise – Focus on your work.”

“Focus on the outcome not the obstacle.”

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Powerful You Book (Grades 2+)

$30.00

Powerful You is a grab and go counseling tool loaded with short and easy-to-use units for group or classroom counseling. Each of the twenty-six lessons share a true story with turn and talk prompts for student reflection. Inspiring quotes, activities, and tips are included in the book for optional lesson extension. Use the laminated Powerful You Role-Play Cards for story telling and acting out the desired behaviors. Classroom signs are included to leave a lesson footprint in visited classrooms.The themed units were created by a school counselor who listened and supported children for over 35 years. These lessons, which follow the ASCA national standards, discuss sensitive school and home issues from a child’s perspective and include:

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Peer pressure

Self-confidence

Friendship

Bullying

Divorce

Grief and more…

Breathe and Stretch on the Beach(Pre-K-12 )

$12.00

Breathe and Stretch on the Beach is the second children's book from beloved author, Julie Frizzi. A twist on the standard book, it is an interactive listening game that can be used in the classroom or at home by teachers, counselors, parents or anyone working with children ages 3 and up. After learning poses, leader will name poses in any order to encourage deep breathing, stretching, and relaxing.

Participants Will
•Understand and use controlled breathing
•Practice personal space by moving safely without touching others
•Use self-control by using nonverbal communication only
•Transfer focus to life
•Enhance self-awareness
•Change negative self-talk to positive self-talk
•Increase Joy, Strength, Gratitude & Conﬁdence

Here are some of the poses from Breathe and Stretch on the Beach:

• Coconut Tree, Eagle, Airplane: I am focused

• Sports Boat, Charge Your Battery, Flying Fish: I am full of energy
•Hurricane: I step aside for others
• Crab: I let my light shine
• Paddleboard: I am responsible for what I say, think and do
• Swordfish: I stick with it
• Seahorse: I can change
• Mermaid, Sand Dollar, Starfish: I am calm

•Friends Eating Oysters: I am a good friend
•Sailor Salute, Captian on Deck, Captain's Parrot: I believe in me
• Sun, Wave, Coconut: I am grateful
• Volcano: I am a problem solver
• Shark: I am fierce
• Coral: I am unique
• Surfer dudette 1 & 2: I ﬂow with life
• Lightning bolt: I am powerful

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Powerful You Counselor Kit

$209.00 $237.00

Intermediate Bundle – Powerful You Book, 26 Educator Cards & 26 Classroom Skill Signs (grades 2 and up)

Primary Educator Bundle – 26 Educator Cards & 26 Classroom Skill Signs (grades K-1)

Digital Primary Brag Tags - 26 Brag Tags for primary students (grades k-1)

Digital Primary Activity Sheets - 26 Social and emotional thinking maps for writing

Breathe and Stretch on the Beach - Yoga - (grades k and up)

Breathe and Stretch Poster

Self-Talk Power When You’re in a Pickle - A 5-Step Problem Solving Guide for Individual Counseling (grades 3 and up)

Divorce Cookie Game for Changing Family Groups (grades k and up)

Hoberman Breathing Ball

Tennessee Transition Chime

Powerful You Feelings Bag

50 I am stickers

Feelings Chart

Free online planning calendar with character trait theme

Free online breathe and stretch videos (26 primary & 26 intermediate)

Data collecting online surveys - primary and intermediate

Primary Book (Kindergarten - 1)

$20.00

Powerful You ( Kindergarten - Grade 1) is designed for its readers to easily find guidance and support for struggles children are experiencing at school or home. Created from over 30 years of educational experience, this colorful, hand-illustrated book will simply bring joy and comfort.

This book is a tool that educators and families use to teach 26 social skills. These storytelling lessons engage the brain by including role-playing, movement, thinking maps, games, and positive self-talk. Educators will recognize these 26 A-Z Powerful You kids such as G – Goodsport Grady who pitches in and shows teamwork. Other lessons include honesty, independence, self-esteem, responsibility, taking turns, waiting to speak, ignoring distractions, and many more.

Lessons in Powerful You follow the ASCA National Standards, which were developed by The American School Counselor Association. It is a great resource for school counseling lesson plans, or counseling resources. Powerful You is a tool to help transform any classroom or home environment by providing a tool to address concerns like bullying at the core. Classroom Social Skill signs that correspond with every A-Z lesson are also available.

Created by an educator who has worked with children for over 30 years, Powerful You discusses sensitive school and home issues to include:

Problem-solving
Teamwork
Listening
Self-confidence

Powerful You! In The Middle Cookie Game

$16.00

Powerful You! In The Middle Cookie Game helps children learn that “kids are the good stuff in the middle of divorce”. This memory game is created for ages 5 and up and can be played with 2-6 players.

Powerful You! In The Middle Cookie Game allows children to talk about and manage “sour pickle” emotions.

“Life is like a pickle. Sometime it’s sweet & sometime’s it’s sour.” - Patricia Kienzle

Players match feeling words, coping strategies, and powerful phrases that open the lines of communication and connection.

School counselors, educators and parents enjoy this easy to use game that empowers children to accept life’s changes and understand that they are the “good stuff” in the middle of divorce.

PRIMARY Powerful You Bundle (Grades K-1)

$35.00

Powerful You Primary includes 26 easy-to-use units for group or classroom counseling. The 8.5 x 11 laminated story telling cards allow young students to listen and share an emotion with one of the Powerful You Kids. Role-playing a desired behavior gives children an opportunity to act out plans and feel like a movie star! Each Powerful You true story helps students organize their thinking with the use of a circle, tree, or bubble map. Bring writing, social skills, movement, and acting together for a powerful classroom lesson. Watch behavior improve by training students to use positive self-talk with included printable A-Z brag tags. To summarize the unit, use the digital signs as a classroom reminder of learned skills. Some of these themed lessons are honesty, teamwork, expressing emotions, self-control, kindness, and more.

The Primary Powerful You Bundle (Grades K-1) includes:

Powerful You Primary Role-Play Cards - Large laminated story telling cards

Digital Annual Planning Calendar

26 Digital Classroom Signs

26 Digital Writing/Drawing Worksheets

26 Digital Brag Tags with Powerful Self-Talk Phrases

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INTERMEDIATE Powerful You Bundle (Grades 2-6

$45.00 $60.00

Powerful You is a grab and go counseling tool loaded with short and easy-to-use units for group or classroom counseling. Each of the twenty-six lessons share a true classroom story with turn and talk prompts for student reflection. Inspiring quotes, activities, and tips are included in the book for optional lesson extension. Use the laminated Powerful You Role-Play Cards for story telling and acting out the desired behaviors. Classroom signs are included to leave a lesson footprint in visited classrooms.The themed units were created by a school counselor who listened and supported children for over 35 years. These lessons, which follow the ASCA national standards, discuss sensitive school and home issues from a child’s perspective. Some of these themed lessons are problem-solving, teamwork, peer pressure, self-confidence, friendship, bullying, divorce, grief, and more.

The Intermediate Bundle includes:

Powerful You Book

Digital Annual Planning Calendar

Powerful You Role-Play Cards - Large laminated storytelling cards

26 Digital Classroom Signs

Self-Talk Power - When You're in a Pickle

$12.00

Have you ever you been thinking the SAME automatic negative thoughts, feeling the SAME unpleasant emotions, and repeating the SAME actions? Consequently, you got the SAME results and found yourself stuck in a spinning cycle. Meet Polly Pickle who finds her pickle power by recognizing her negative thoughts and retraining her brain to use positive SELF-TALK.

This book includes a relatable story (ages 8+) with a 5-Step Problem-Solving Guide that parents or
counselors can use to build resilience in youth. Two printable charts are also included to help you
recognize habitual thought patterns and make a sequential plan to move forward

Pickle Shirt

$30.00

This long-sleeve, v-neck sun shirt helps your students understand that all feelings are okay. Turn around and show them the back so they learn to name the feeling. Celebrate special events with a healthy, sugar-free pickle party.

Self-Built TEENS, The Ultimate Toolkit for Personal Growth

$25.00

Self-Built Teens is an easy-to-use workbook for counselors, parents, or anyone working with youth. Each life lesson includes a short story with reflective turn and talk prompts to open the line of communication. Mindful chair stretches are included to give movement, release tension, and wake up learning. This organized toolkit is packed full of activities that create shifts and ignite momentum towards incredible possibilities.

As a district school counselor, Julie Frizzi spent hours listening to teens’ ideas on ways to boost CONNECTION in schools. These randomly chosen teens requested short movement breaks, reflection time with classmates, and fun ice-breaker activities. Teens & Up was created with these elements to build relationships, increase self-awareness, boost problem-solving skills, and escalate self-management tools. Find more social-emotional books and resources for younger children on the Powerful You website: https://www.powerfulyou.info