**Please Note: this resource contains Canadian content. For American content, please see CCP5824.** Students extend their knowledge of daily, practical and real-world life skills with an in-depth look at their Personal Development, Personal Relationships, and Personal Life Plan. Ideal for students and adults alike. Begin your inward journey through social intelligence skills. Learn key techniques to be a successful active listener and identify social cues. Explore healthy and rewarding relationships through collaboration and coping skills. Finish up your journey with the tools needed to develop a life plan. Follow the steps, from visualizing a life vision, to setting your goals. Comprised of reading passages, graphic organizers, real-world activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource combines high interest concepts with low vocabulary to ensure all learners comprehend the essential skills required in life. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your Provincial Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

**Please Note: this resource contains Canadian content. For American content, please see CCP5823.** Become empowered as you move through life with the tools needed to develop a life plan. Follow the steps to eliminating roadblocks as you Define Your Current Reality. Understand that a Life Vision is made up of components that must be balanced. Get to know your strengths and weaknesses as they relate to Your Personal Identity. Take a quiz to find out how important Your Personal Values are to you. Get help resetting your Goals with a step-by-step process. Create your own action plan as a part of Prioritizing Your Life Plan. Comprised of reading passages, graphic organizers, real-world activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource combines high interest concepts with low vocabulary to ensure all learners comprehend the essential skills required in life. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your Provincial Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

**Please Note: this resource contains Canadian content. For American content, please see CCP5821.** Gain the capacity to know yourself and others through social intelligence skills. Learn key techniques to be a successful Active Listener, like maintaining eye contact and not interrupting. Become familiar with social cues to better Understand Social Situations. Get to know other Self-Advocates throughout history and see what traits you might share with them. Learn how to cope with change and get strategies on how to Adapt to any situation. Take a quiz to find out how Self-Aware you are before getting tips on how to support it. Get help understanding Emotional Intelligence with the 5 steps to managing emotions. Comprised of reading passages, graphic organizers, real-world activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource combines high interest concepts with low vocabulary to ensure all learners comprehend the essential skills required in life. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your Provincial Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

**Please Note: this resource contains Canadian content. For American content, please see CCP5822.** Establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with individuals and groups. Take a quiz to find out how Assertive you are. Get to know the building blocks of Collaboration. Match the level of Risk-taking to the scenario. Get tips to improve your own Decision-Making. Identify possible goals, barriers and Solutions to a series of Problems. Learn helpful breathing strategies as a form of Coping Skills. Follow a web guide to make sure you’re Being a Responsible Digital Visitor or Resident. Comprised of reading passages, graphic organizers, real-world activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource combines high interest concepts with low vocabulary to ensure all learners comprehend the essential skills required in life. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your Provincial Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

Students extend their knowledge of daily, practical and real-world life skills with an in-depth look at their Personal Development, Personal Relationships, and Personal Life Plan. Ideal for students and adults alike. Begin your inward journey through social intelligence skills. Learn key techniques to be a successful active listener and identify social cues. Explore healthy and rewarding relationships through collaboration and coping skills. Finish up your journey with the tools needed to develop a life plan. Follow the steps, from visualizing a life vision, to setting your goals. Comprised of reading passages, graphic organizers, real-world activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource combines high interest concepts with low vocabulary to ensure all learners comprehend the essential skills required in life. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

Help students with special needs thrive with over 160 updated educational activities In the newly revised Third Edition of Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, teacher and author Darlene Mannix delivers a unique collection of over 160 updated activity sheets with related exercises, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help students gain basic skills necessary for independence and success. Each activity sheet focuses on a specific skill in a real-world context and includes teacher directions for objectives, introduction, optional extension activities, and assessment methods. This crucial book includes: Activity sheets and corresponding introductions in a wide variety of critical life skills such as interpersonal, communication, academic and school, practical living, and more Coverage of leisure activities and the importance of finding fulfilling hobbies and pastimes Tools to help students build their self awareness and understand their strengths and weaknesses Perfect for special educators, general education teachers, school counselors, and psychologists, Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs will also earn a place in the libraries of other professionals working with special needs children, as well as the parents of those children.

Make workplace conflict resolution a game that EVERYBODY wins! Recent studies show that typical managers devote more than a quarter of their time to resolving coworker disputes. The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games offers a wealth of activities and exercises for groups of any size that let you manage your business (instead of managing personalities). Part of the acclaimed, bestselling Big Books series, this guide offers step-by-step directions and customizable tools that empower you to heal rifts arising from ineffective communication, cultural/personality clashes, and other specific problem areas—before they affect your organization's bottom line. Let The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games help you to: Build trust Foster morale Improve processes Overcome diversity issues And more Dozens of physical and verbal activities help create a safe environment for teams to explore several common forms of conflict—and their resolution. Inexpensive, easy-to-implement, and proved effective at Fortune 500 corporations and mom-and-pop businesses alike, the exercises in The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games delivers everything you need to make your workplace more efficient, effective, and engaged.

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

The authors draw upon scientific studies, theories, site visits, nd their own extensive experiences to describe approaches to social and emotional learning for all levels.