Future Planning School

Integrate Success Not Stress School into your SEL (social emotional learning) resources Grades 5 to 10, by exploring these videos, small group goal bus exercises, and quizzes all pre-loaded on to a learning management system for yourself to use with your teacher's copy or for your students with their own individual copies.

Lessons Include:

1. Set Personal Goals

2. Find Relevance in School Work

3. Join Clubs or Extra Curriculars

4. How to Get Support

5. Use a Planner or Digital Tools

6. Sit At the Front & Actively Participate

7. Make a Homework & Study Routine

8. Work in Study Groups

9. Celebrate Wins

10. Reflect Regularly

11. My Adult Self

12. Youth Core Values Survey

13. Youth North Star Reflection Quiz

14. Adulting Short Answer Quiz

15. Core Value Visual Quiz

16. Letter From My Future Self

17. Will I Ever Own a House?

18. Career Planning Tips During an Affordability Crisis

19. What is the Living Wage and Why Does It Matter?

20. Teen Tips for Building Resiliency

21. Teen Quiz on Resiliency

22. The Comparison Monster and How Social Media Can Hurt Self-Esteem

23. My Truth- A Teen Affirmation

24. Owning Your Own Unique Path

25. The Online "We Mentality"

26. Online Discourse & Toxic Teardowns That Serve As Distractions

27. Consumer Hauls and Other Online Distractions

28. Setting Priorities

29. Setting Yourself Up For Success

30. Small Choices That Make Big Differences

Bonus: What Happened to Gayle? (A Story of Social Anxiety)

Managing Chronic Absenteeism & Disengagement

Contributing factors such as post covid impacts, the digital revolution with technological accessibility leading to digital overload, families in transition, the affordability crisis and more are just a few factors that have lead to student disengagement as well as chronic absenteeism. In many areas student success rates are declining, learning gaps are apparent, and learners are struggling with focus as well as learning retention.

An opportunity is to create targeted school-based interventions for student disengagement and chronic absenteeism by addressing your data pool of students to label the "4 D" underlying factors such as:

Code 1: Disengagement (Learners do not see themselves in school and have lost the relevance of learning)

Code 2: Digital Overload (Students have habits that lead to lack of focus and diminished focus because of overexposure to digital technology such as cell phones, video gaming, social media, and more)

Code 3: Dislocation (Emotional, physical, and/or family upheaval related to transitions, trauma, food insecurities etc.)

Code 4: Deficit or Deficiency (Learning gaps that make school challenging or compounding learning gaps that result in learning deficiencies by being below grade level)

As Educators We Can Help...

Support students with digital overload who are disconnecting socially from their peers and school.

Help students get back their focus, soft skill work habits, and manage technological dependence.

Build on inquiry skills by learning how to map out goal setting through the power of stories.

Help young learners reconnect and be present in daily life while planning their future goals.

Help young learners to reconnect back to their why of learning and reclaim back their attendance rates.

Helping Youth Thrive in Education