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Empowering Minds: Nurturing Social Thinking Skills for Tomorrow's Leaders

Help me give my students access to high quality tools and instructional materials to strengthen their social emotional development!

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Working as a School Psychologist, I am often called upon to support students, teachers and parents of children who are exhibiting "melting down" behaviors and may be identified as disruptive, aggressive, or “behavior problems”. These behaviors are often because students don’t understand what’s going on around them or may not have awareness or understanding of how to play, learn, work in groups with their peers or regulate their emotions. By being provided with high quality instructional resources, these students will gain access to a variety of tools to meet their individual needs.

The Teachers Pay Teachers (tpt) gift card will be used to access templates and visuals to enhance understanding of social emotional topics and vocabulary.

The CBT Therapeutic Game, the Self Regulation Workbook and Emotional Regulation Workbook for Kids will be used to target specific skill areas that may be underdeveloped and will help to enhance individual student treatment plans.

The Little Spot of Emotion boxset and accompanying plushies, Lego DUPLOS, Moods and Emotions Poster Pack and Exploring Emotions cards will help to provide students with visual and hands on opportunities to strengthen their understanding of social emotional vocabulary and skills.

My goal for this project is to provide increased access social emotional learning opportunities to ALL students as well as access to mental health support. There are so many strengths and unique qualities that the students I support have. Seeing them display pride and a sense of accomplishment when they make progress and generalize skills is one of many things that make them a special group!

Ms. Blankenship
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
$100 Gift Card for Educational Resources on TPT • TPT $100.00 1 $100.00
Playing CBT - Therapy Games for Kids Age 7-14 to Develop Awareness of Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviors, Improve Social Skills, Coping Skills and Enhance Self Control, 15-Games-in-1. Updated Version 2022 • Amazon Business $69.99 1 $69.99
8 Book Set: A Little SPOT of Emotion Box Set (Anger, Anxiety, Peaceful, Happiness, Sadness, Confidence, Love, & Scribble Emotion) - Paperback • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $60.00 1 $60.00
LEGO - DUPLO Town Buildable People with Big Emotions Interactive Toy 10423 • Best Buy Education $49.99 1 $49.99
8 Mini Emotion Plush Toys with A Little SPOT of Feelings Hardcover Book Box Set (fidget toy set - social emotional learning) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $45.00 1 $45.00
Lakeshore Moods & Emotions Poster Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99
The Self-Regulation Workbook for Kids: CBT Exercises and Coping Strategies to Help Children Handle Anxiety, Stress, and Other Strong Emotions • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Emotional Regulation For Kids: 30+ Fun Activities To Build Positive Thinking, Self-Awareness, Social-Emotional Learning, Coping Techniques Through CBT Exercises • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Carson Dellosa Exploring Different Emotions Learning Cards for Children • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.59 1 $12.59

Materials cost

$398.54

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.65

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$441.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.85

Total project goal

$519.02

How we calculate what's needed

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