By Amie Dean

30-Minute Groups: Social Drama and Friendship Skills

$24.95

30-Minute Lessons for Small Group or Classroom Instruction

Social drama, friendship conflicts, and digital misunderstandings are among the most disruptive challenges students face today — and the skills to navigate them don’t always come naturally. The 30-Minute Groups: Social Drama and Friendship Skills workbook gives school counselors and educators a complete, ready-to-use curriculum to help students in grades 2–9 recognize drama before it escalates, build healthier friendships, and develop the confidence to handle peer conflict with maturity and respect.

Teach essential friendship and communication skills in 30-minute lessons for small group or classroom instruction. It’s flexible, adaptable, and requires minimal prep time!

Inside, you’ll find:

• 10 Complete Lessons with ASCA® standards
• Comprehensive Action Plan
• Permission and Completion Letters to send to caregivers
• Attendance Logs
• Pre- and Post-Assessments for program effectiveness
• Results Report to share with interested parties

Topics include: recognizing the traits of a true friend, identifying what drives social drama, managing emotions and self-control, using respectful communication to reduce conflict, recognizing healthy vs. unhealthy friendship patterns, practicing empathy, navigating digital drama, building self-worth and confidence, fostering positive connections, and setting limits while staying kind.

This workbook’s engaging design ensures students across a wide range of learning styles can participate, reflect, and grow. Use the 30-Minute Groups: Social Drama and Friendship Skills workbook to help students build the relationship skills they need to navigate peer dynamics with maturity, empathy, and confidence!

By Amie Dean

30 Minute Groups Peaceful Conflict Resolution

$22.95

Educators and counselors juggle planning, instruction, behavior, relationships, and data—there’s little time left to design small-group lessons from scratch. This ready-to-run workbook gives you a complete, flexible curriculum to teach peaceful conflict resolution in ten 30-minute sessions for grades 2–9, aligned with ASCA standards and designed for quick prep and easy delivery.

What you’ll teach (ten core lessons)
• Understanding conflict: differences and disagreements
• Conflict styles: how we manage disputes
• The power of words: communicating respectfully
• Active listening: the key to understanding
• Nonverbal communication: what you’re really saying
• Finding calm: managing strong emotions
• Empathy in action: perspective-taking
• The apology process: making amends and forgiving
• Boundaries and balance: finding win-win solutions
• Peacekeeping in action: being kind and respectful to solve problems peacefully

What’s inside each session
• Clear learning targets (ASCA-aligned) and a quick lesson introduction
• Circle Time questions to build connection
• Read-aloud story with discussion prompts
• Coloring sheets (great for younger students)
• Skill practice activities and “What Would You Do? / This or That?” scenarios
• Closing reflections to reinforce learning
Includes an introductory meeting and a final closing session you can use as time allows.

Free bonus downloads
Permission letters, group expectations, attendance logs, pre-/post-assessments, results report templates, certificate of completion, completion letter, and a small-group action plan you can drop into your ASCA documentation. Most activities require only pencils/markers and paper—no special materials needed.

Result
Practical, age-appropriate activities help students identify and manage emotions, listen to others, communicate with respect, and collaborate toward peaceful solutions—skills they can apply in class, at home, and with peers all year long.

By Amie Dean

15 Minute Focus Workbook: Behavior Interventions Your Roadmap for Creating a Positive Classroom Community

$32.95

In twenty-first-century classrooms, educators are expected to plan curriculum, teach the standards, learn and master ever-changing technology, manage schedules and behavior, oversee student work and grading, make connections, get to know students personally, and build positive relationships. And this just scratches the surface.

To be able to accomplish so many goals with excellence takes an enormous amount of organization and planning. Amie Dean created this workbook to help with just that—organizing and planning your first 6 weeks of the year to establish a positive classroom community while also providing tools to support and nurture your community all year long.

Your 212 page roadmap includes specific steps to:

• Co-Creating a Positive Classroom Community in Four Weeks
• Building Connections and Confidence
• Prevention, Procedures, and a Positive Approach to Discipline
• Goal-Setting and Monitoring
• De-Escalation, Behavior Support, and Behavior Problem-Solving

FREE BONUS!
Over 100 pages of Downloadable Resources, Including Many Templates You Can Personalize!

Full of activities and solutions, this workbook will aid you in creating a classroom community while supporting students in their development of life skills, peer relations, conflict resolution, and self-regulation skills. You will also find many behavior problem-solving ideas and tools to help you prevent and address challenges as they arise throughout the year. This is the Roadmap to simplify your year.

By Amie Dean

Behavior Interventions: Strategies for Educators, Counselors and Parents

$15.95

15-minute focus
Brief Counseling Techniques that Work

In 15-minute Focus: Behavior Interventions, Amie Dean gives educators, counselors, and parents knowledge, strategies, and resources to teach children and teens how to communicate and make decisions to get their needs met in positive ways through behavior instruction and coaching.

If a child or teen is struggling to manage emotions or make good choices, it is rarely because they want to be “bad” or disrespectful. Most adults look for the “right” way or a magic formula that will transform challenging students, with no luck on finding one. Impacting behavioral change in another person is hard work, and every individual has unique needs and circumstances that should be considered. This book will help you view children’s words and actions as a lack of coping skills in the moment, or a skill deficit that can be taught or improved.

You’ll discover:

• The function of behavior
• Ways to rethink responses to behavior
• De-escalating techniques
• Steps to create a trauma-sensitive classroom
• Principles for a positive classroom
• Actionable strategies, curated resources, and more.

This guide will ask you to consider that there is likely a barrier keeping children from being successful, and it is our opportunity as the adults who care for them to help them through it.