SCE's Counseling Program

The counselors at Sanford Creek create a welcoming and trusting environment for our students. Students are exposed to various ways of managing their emotions, friendship building skills, conflict resolution, and learning  and test taking skills. We provide students with short-term individual counseling, small group counseling, and large group classroom counseling lessons. We provide instruction on coping skills and bullying each year, while implementing the Second Step program and harboring skills with "The Little Spot" series.
Picture"A Little Spot of Feelings" - Diane Alber
 "A Little Spot of Feelings"​ is a book series created by Diane Alber. The series has books with various emotions matching different colors. This series helps students build their emotional vocabulary while allowing them to explore how different emotions make them feel. Some spots can feel REALLY BIG and others may feel small. In doing so, students begin to build the ability to not only understand the feelings they are having, but understand how others might be feeling. Each book has activities and lessons that are taught to the students throughout the school year! This is a great tool for school
                                                                                 and can be used at home! All of Diane Alber's  books and supplies                                                                                   can be purchased on her website, https://www.dianealber.com/, or                                                                                   on Amazon.
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The Second Step program is a district-wide program that we implement at SCE for all grade levels. There are four units with five lessons in each; Growth Mindset and Goal-Setting, Emotions Management, Empathy and Kindness, and Problem-Solving. Each lesson starts with a Brain Builder and is often accompanied with an activity for the students to complete. 
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Here at SCE, we place a lot of focus on identifying emotions and how to handle them and express them in a healthy way. All students are exposed to coping skills and grades 3-5 participate in a district wide lesson to dig deeper into what coping skills work and don't work for them. They learn how to "ride the wave" to better understand how certain emotions may lead to using different coping skills and that those skills are based on individual preferences. What                                                                        works for you, might not work for your friend, and that's okay!