Plan With Purpose
Be present with students. Spend less time wondering what to teach next. The free Powerful You SEL Calendar helps you organize a thoughtful, yearlong program that supports student growth—so you can feel prepared, respond to classroom needs, and focus more of your energy on connecting with students.
Step 1: Plan Your Year
Plan a connected, confident school year—one month at a time!
Bring Social-Emotional Learning into your classroom with this FREE printable SEL Annual Calendar from Powerful You!
Inside you'll find:
📅 A monthly SEL planning calendar
💙 A featured social-emotional competency for each month
📚 Suggested Powerful You lesson plans
🎯 Behaviors for Success aligned with each SEL skill
Whether you're creating classroom guidance lessons, planning morning meetings, or building a positive classroom culture, this printable calendar makes it simple to keep SEL at the heart of your teaching all year long.
🎁 Get it FREE!
Add this resource to your cart and enter the code CALENDAR at checkout to download it for free.
Start building a more connected, compassionate, and confident classroom today!
Step 2: Display Powerful You with A Year-Round Bulletin Board
Powerful You Bulletin Board Template - Create Your Year!
Print, cut, and display these large letters to create a year-round home for your Powerful You lessons.
Create a Powerful You display that grows with your students all year long! This free printable includes large POWERFUL YOU letters to cut out and place on a bulletin board, classroom wall, school display, counseling space, or quiet spot.
Keep the title displayed throughout the year, then change the lessons, signs, student work, and Powerful You Kid pictures around it. One simple display becomes the home for every new Powerful You lesson!
Step 3: Optional Student Survey
Primary and Intermediate Student Surveys.
Many schools and districts ask educators to collect data to document student growth. While meaningful relationships and daily interactions often tell the most important story, these quick, optional surveys provide a simple way to gather student feedback and measure perceived growth in social-emotional skills.
Use them:
At the beginning and end of the school year
To support MTSS, PBIS, or counseling documentation
When your school requires SEL data collection
These easy-to-administer surveys take just a few minutes and can provide helpful insights while supporting your existing SEL practices.
Use them when they're helpful—and know that the real impact of SEL is often seen in the confidence, kindness, and connections your students build every day.
Step 4: Other Powerful You Ideas
Check Out Other Resources from Powerful You!
Meet Attentive Al!
One FREE sample from the 26 Powerful You Primary A–Z life skills lessons for Grades K–1!
Help young children discover the power of listening through storytelling, movement, activities, and positive self-talk.
Attentive Al learns five simple listening tips that help children pay attention, follow directions, and become more confident listeners.
Positive Self-Talk: “I am attentive.”
Your FREE downloadable lesson includes:
Attentive Al's Character Picture — Meet your new Powerful You friend!
Original Book Lesson — Al's story and five listening tips.
Movement Activity — Practice listening and following directions through playful movement.
Printable Activity Sheet — Explore whole-body listening through drawing and writing.
Colorful Listening Tips Skill Sign — Reinforce the lesson with daily reminders.
Bonus Online Videos — A link to additional free resources on the Powerful You website.
Perfect for parents, teachers, school counselors, and anyone helping young children grow calm, kind, and confident!
This free sample is one of 26 A–Z lessons in the Powerful You Primary collection, designed to build essential life skills through simple, meaningful everyday moments.
Download your FREE lesson and start practicing powerful listening skills today!
Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills
Meet Generating Giana!
Discover the power of gratitude with this FREE sample lesson from the 26 Powerful You Self-Built Teens life skills lessons.
Through Giana's story, reflection questions, a gratitude challenge, and mindful movement, teens learn to shift their focus from complaining to appreciating the good in their lives.
Your free download includes:
Generating Giana's two-page book lesson
Reflection questions and gratitude activities
A colorful, printable gratitude skill sign
A welcome letter linking to additional free videos
Perfect for teens, parents, educators, and school counselors!
Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills
One little lesson. Powerful life skills. Lasting impact.
Meet Reporting Roxy!
Help children discover the power of noticing and sharing the goodness in others!
In this free Powerful You sample lesson, children meet Reporting Roxy and learn that reporting isn't just about telling an adult when something is wrong. It's also about recognizing kindness, helpfulness, and the wonderful things people do every day.
Through positive self-talk, movement, storytelling, and meaningful conversations, children practice looking for the good and sharing it with others.
Positive Self-Talk: “I report the goodness in others.”
Inside this free sample lesson, you'll discover:
A simple, engaging way to introduce Reporting Roxy
Positive self-talk that encourages kindness
Breathing and movement to bring the lesson to life
Thoughtful questions to spark meaningful conversations
Easy ways to practice reporting goodness in everyday life
Perfect for parents, grandparents, teachers, and school counselors.
Little moments of noticing goodness can make a big difference!
Download your free sample and experience the Powerful You approach to building calm, kind, and confident kids.
Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills
Powerful You is a grab-and-go counseling resource designed to make group and classroom counseling simple, meaningful, and effective. Packed with 26 short, easy-to-use themed lessons, this book helps counselors, educators, and support staff guide students through important life topics with confidence and care.
Each lesson begins with a true story that reflects real challenges children face, followed by engaging turn-and-talk prompts that encourage student reflection, discussion, and connection. Inspiring quotes, hands-on activities, and practical tips are also included for optional lesson extensions.
Created by a school counselor with more than 35 years of experience listening to and supporting children, these lessons align with ASCA National Standards and explore sensitive school and home issues through a child’s perspective. Powerful You gives adults ready-to-use tools to build emotional awareness, resilience, communication skills, and confidence in students.
To bring each lesson to life, companion Powerful You laminated role-playing cards and colorful classroom signs are also available separately. These engaging tools correspond with every lesson and provide an interactive way for students to practice skills, deepen understanding, and reinforce key concepts.
The Powerful You Role-Play Cards are the perfect companion to the Powerful You book and an important hands-on resource for the classroom. These large 8.5 x 11 laminated cards invite teachers to get down on the floor with students, creating meaningful conversations and helping children truly see the “big picture” of becoming a Powerful You Kid.
Children love using the cards to role-play real-life classroom situations while building confidence, empathy, self-awareness, and problem-solving skills. Designed for grades 2 and up, the storytelling cards make social-emotional learning interactive, engaging, and easy to implement throughout the school day.
Each sturdy laminated card features:
A beautiful full-color illustration
A powerful affirmation
Self-discovery journal questions
The cards share the true stories of the children from Powerful You and can be used anytime as a quick, meaningful educational tool for storytelling, classroom discussions, partner activities, counseling sessions, or role-playing exercises.
These cards help children connect deeply with the lessons from the book while encouraging mindfulness, emotional growth, and positive behavior in a fun and supportive way.
Breathe and Stretch on the Beach is an interactive listening and movement game that helps children build focus, confidence, calmness, and self-awareness through playful stretching and positive self-talk. Designed for ages 3 and up, this engaging resource can be used in the classroom, counseling groups, therapy settings, or at home by teachers, counselors, parents, and caregivers.
After learning the beach-themed poses, a leader calls out poses in any order, encouraging participants to listen carefully, move mindfully, and practice deep breathing, stretching, and relaxation. Children stay engaged while developing important social-emotional and self-regulation skills in a fun, active way.
Participants will:
Understand and practice controlled breathing
Respect personal space by moving safely without touching others
Strengthen self-control using nonverbal communication
Improve focus and attention
Increase self-awareness
Replace negative self-talk with positive self-talk
Build joy, strength, gratitude, and confidence
Each pose is paired with empowering affirmations so children can embody positive mindsets as they move. Examples include:
Coconut Tree, Eagle, Airplane – I am focused
Sports Boat, Charge Your Battery, Flying Fish – I am full of energy
Hurricane – I step aside for others
Crab – I let my light shine
Paddleboard – I am responsible for what I say, think, and do
Breathe and Stretch on the Beach is a joyful way to help children move their bodies, calm their minds, and grow strong from the inside out.
Powerful You Primary (Kindergarten–Grade 1) is a colorful, hand-illustrated social-emotional learning resource designed to help young children find guidance, encouragement, and support for challenges they may experience at school or at home. Created from more than 30 years of educational experience, this engaging tool brings comfort, confidence, and joy to early learners.
Available as a book or laminated role-play card set, Powerful You Primary gives educators, counselors, and families flexible ways to teach essential life skills in fun and meaningful ways. Each lesson uses storytelling to capture attention and strengthen learning through role-playing, movement, thinking maps, games, and positive self-talk.
Children meet the 26 A–Z Powerful You Kids, memorable characters who model positive behaviors and healthy choices. For example, G – Goodsport Grady teaches teamwork and pitching in. Other lessons focus on honesty, independence, self-esteem, responsibility, taking turns, waiting to speak, ignoring distractions, and more.
Lessons align with ASCA National Standards developed by American School Counselor Association, making this a valuable resource for classroom guidance, school counseling lessons, small groups, and home support. Powerful You Primary helps transform classrooms and home environments by teaching social skills proactively and addressing concerns such as bullying at the core.
Companion Classroom Social Skill Signs that match every A–Z lesson are also available separately to reinforce learning visually throughout the day.
Created by an educator who has supported children for over 30 years, Powerful You Primary helps children build skills in:
Problem-solving
Teamwork
Listening
Self-confidence
Friendship skills
Emotional awareness
Respect
Responsibility
Powerful You! In The Middle Cookie Game is a fun memory-style matching game designed to help children understand an important message:
Kids are the good stuff in the middle of divorce.
Created for ages 5+ and playable with 2–6 players, this engaging game is played like Concentration while gently opening the door to emotional expression and healing conversations.
Children match:
Feeling words
Coping strategies
Empowering phrases
As they play, they learn to identify emotions, talk about difficult changes, and build resilience.
“Life is like a pickle. Sometimes it’s sweet & sometimes it’s sour.” — Patricia Kienzle
This game helps children recognize “sour pickle” feelings while discovering healthy ways to cope and grow stronger.
Perfect for:
School counselors
Teachers
Parents
Therapists
Small groups
Family support settings
Benefits:
Encourages communication
Builds emotional awareness
Supports children through divorce transitions
Makes hard conversations easier through play
Strengthens confidence and connection
Why Families Love It
Easy to learn, meaningful to play, and created with heart, this game reminds every child:
You are the good stuff in the middle.
Powerful You Primary Life Skills Bundle | Grades K–1
Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills
Bring social-emotional learning to life with this collection of Powerful You resources designed for kindergarten and first-grade children!
Help children build confidence, practice positive self-talk, develop kindness, and strengthen essential life skills through engaging, hands-on activities.
What's Included
Laminated Teaching Materials (Shipped to You)
Powerful You Primary Role-Playing Cards — Laminated 8.5" × 11" cards that encourage children to explore and practice important life skills through role-playing.
26 Powerful You Life Skill Signs — Laminated 8.5" × 11" signs that reinforce positive self-talk and life skills throughout the day.
Digital Resources
Powerful You Brag Tags — Printable tags to celebrate children's efforts, growth, and accomplishments.
Powerful You Writing Worksheets — Printable activities to help children reflect on and practice what they're learning.
Perfect For
Parents, teachers, school counselors, and anyone helping young children grow into calm, kind, and confident kids.
Bundle Price: $40 + Shipping
Includes physical laminated materials and digital printable resources.
Powerful You Intermediate Life Skills Bundle | Grades 2–6
Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills
Help children become calm, kind, and confident with the Powerful You Intermediate Life Skills Bundle!
Designed for grades 2–6, this collection makes social-emotional learning (SEL) easy to teach and fun to practice. Through relatable characters, engaging stories, positive self-talk, and hands-on role-playing, children learn valuable skills they can use every day.
What's Included
1. Powerful You Intermediate Book
A colorful collection of Powerful You characters and life skills that helps children explore emotions, build confidence, develop positive self-talk, and make thoughtful choices.
2. Laminated Role-Playing Cards (8.5" × 11")
Bring the lessons to life! Hold up a character picture for children to see, then read the story and positive self-talk from the back. Each card includes an activity that encourages children to practice the life skill through role-playing and discussion.
Perfect for classroom circles, small groups, counseling sessions, and family conversations.
3. Laminated Life Skill Signs (8.5" × 11")
Colorful visual reminders that help reinforce the Powerful You life skills throughout the day. Display them in classrooms, counseling offices, or learning spaces to encourage children to remember and use what they've learned.
Bonus: Free Online Video Lessons!
Extend the learning with free Powerful You video lessons available at www.powerfulyou.info.
Visit the Intermediate (Grades 2–6) section to explore videos that complement the life skills taught in the bundle.
Perfect For
Parents and homeschool families
Elementary teachers
School counselors
Small-group and classroom SEL lessons
Character education and positive behavior support
Everything you need to introduce, practice, and reinforce important life skills—all in one convenient bundle!
Bundle Price: $50.00 + Shipping
Includes the physical book, laminated role-playing cards, and laminated life skill signs. Online video lessons are available free on the Powerful You website.
Self-Talk Power – When You’re in a Pickle is an empowering story that helps children understand how thoughts influence feelings, choices, and outcomes. Perfect for ages 8 and up, this relatable book introduces readers to Polly Pickle, a character who feels stuck in a frustrating cycle of the same negative thoughts, the same unpleasant emotions, and the same repeated actions.
When Polly realizes she is trapped in a “pickle,” she learns how to recognize unhelpful thinking patterns and retrain her brain through positive self-talk. As she changes her thoughts, she begins to make stronger choices, build confidence, and create better results.
This engaging story gives children practical tools for emotional growth while teaching the power of mindset, resilience, and personal responsibility. It is a valuable resource for parents, counselors, educators, and anyone supporting children through challenges.
Included in the book:
A relatable story that teaches the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behavior
A 5-Step Problem-Solving Guide to help children work through challenges
Two printable charts to identify habitual thought patterns
A sequential planning tool to help children move forward with confidence
Strategies for building resilience and positive thinking habits
Self-Talk Power – When You’re in a Pickle helps children discover that when they change their inner voice, they can change their life.
This long-sleeve V-neck Pickle Sun Shirt is more than a sun shirt—it’s a playful conversation starter and wearable feelings chart designed for adults who value wellness, mindfulness, and emotional connection.
Simply point to the pickle that matches your mood and say, “Today I feel ________.” It’s a lighthearted way to check in with yourself, communicate with others, and bring more emotional awareness into everyday life.
Perfect for beach days, boating, pickleball, poolside lounging, walks, travel, or casual everyday wear, this shirt blends fun, comfort, and meaning.
Great for:
Morning mindset check-ins
Stress awareness
Family communication
Classroom or counseling settings
Group retreats or wellness events
Playful connection with friends
Keep the fun going by singing the Pickle Feelings Song from the Self-Talk Power Book and celebrate life with your own Pickle Party.
Features:
Long-sleeve sun coverage
Flattering V-neck style
Lightweight comfort
Unique conversation piece
Supports mindfulness and emotional wellness
Great gift idea
A joyful, healthy, and totally unique way to express emotions, spark smiles, and spread positive energy.
Example of the Pickle Song here: https://youtu.be/TM0m5MFIT4U
Wear your feelings. Share your joy. Grab your Pickle Sun Shirt today.
Help teens build confidence, connection, and essential life skills—one letter at a time!
Powerful You: Self-Built Teens is an engaging A–Z life skills workbook designed for parents, school counselors, educators, and anyone supporting teens.
Each lesson includes a short, relatable story and reflective turn-and-talk prompts that encourage meaningful conversations, self-awareness, positive choices, and stronger relationships.
What's Inside:
26 A–Z life skills lessons
Short stories that spark reflection and discussion
Turn-and-talk prompts that build connection
Mindful chair stretches to release tension and re-energize learning
Practical activities that encourage problem-solving and self-management
Inspired by Real Teens
As a district school counselor, Julie Frizzi listened to students share what would help them feel more connected at school. Their ideas included short movement breaks, time to reflect with classmates, and fun icebreaker activities.
Self-Built Teens brings those ideas together in an easy-to-use resource that helps teens discover their strengths, build relationships, and develop tools for everyday life.
Free Stretching Videos
Visit the Self-Built Teens section of the Powerful You website for free stretching videos that accompany each of the 26 lessons.
Want the Matching Life Skill Signs?
Explore the Self-Built Teens Bundle, which includes the printed book and a digital collection of all 26 matching life skill signs.
Format: Printed book
Powerful You — Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills
Social-Emotional Learning Annual Calendar
Plan a connected, confident school year—one month at a time!
Bring Social-Emotional Learning into your classroom with this FREE printable SEL Annual Calendar from Powerful You! Designed for school counselors, teachers, and educators, this resource helps you intentionally focus on one core SEL competency each month while providing meaningful activities and lesson ideas to support student growth.
Inside you'll find:
📅 A monthly SEL planning calendar
💙 A featured social-emotional competency for each month
✨ Inspirational quotes to spark classroom conversations
📚 Suggested Powerful You lesson plans
🎯 Behaviors for Success aligned with each SEL skill
🧘 Easy ways to integrate mindfulness and SEL throughout the school year
Whether you're creating classroom guidance lessons, planning morning meetings, or building a positive classroom culture, this printable calendar makes it simple to keep SEL at the heart of your teaching all year long.
🎁 Get it FREE!
Add this resource to your cart and enter the code CALENDAR at checkout to download it for free.
Start building a more connected, compassionate, and confident classroom today!
Powerful You! Self-Built Teens Bundle | Printed Book + 26 Digital Posters
26 Letters. 26 Life Lessons. One Meaningful Year with Teens.
Help teens build confidence, strengthen relationships, and develop essential life skills with the Powerful You! Self-Built Teens Bundle.
This ready-to-use A–Z collection combines the printed Self-Built Teens workbook with 26 full-color digital life skills posters, giving parents, counselors, and educators meaningful tools to encourage connection, reflection, and personal growth.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
1. Self-Built Teens Printed Workbook
26 A–Z life skills lessons
Short, relatable stories and turn-and-talk questions
Group activities, positive quotes, reflection prompts, and positive self-talk practice
Mindful chair stretches to encourage movement and release tension
2. 26 Digital Life Skills Posters
One full-color printable poster for every letter A–Z
Standard 8.5 × 11-inch pages
Printable PDF format
Display in classrooms, counseling offices, bedrooms, or calm corners
HOW TO USE THE A–Z PROGRAM
CHOOSE A LETTER: Teach one lesson each week or select a life skill your teens need right now.
DISPLAY THE POSTER: Introduce the skill and keep its message visible.
READ & REFLECT: Use the corresponding story and turn-and-talk questions from the workbook.
CONNECT & PRACTICE: Explore the group activity, positive quote, reflection prompts, and self-talk practice.
BREATHE & STRETCH: Practice the chair stretch in the workbook or enjoy the matching free stretching video on the Powerful You website.
FREE COMPANION STRETCHING VIDEOS
Each lesson has a corresponding free stretching video available in the Self-Built Teens section of the Powerful You website.
IMPORTANT PRODUCT DETAILS
This bundle includes:
One printed Self-Built Teens workbook, shipped to your address.
26 full-color digital life skills posters (PDF), personally emailed to you after your purchase.
The posters are printable on standard 8.5 × 11-inch paper. No physical posters will be shipped.
Free companion stretching videos for all 26 lessons are available on the Powerful You website.
Powerful You — Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills