Watch, Care, Respond
Gratitude is more than feeling thankful for something, it is more like a deeper appreciation for someone (or something,) which produces more long lasting positivity.
Thanks! A Strengths-Based Gratitude Curriculum for Tweens and Teens (Center for Greater Good)
Gratitude Worksheets and Resources (Teachers Pay Teachers)
17 Simple Intera ctive Gratitude Exercises
Gratitude: Objectives:This assignment reduces speech anxiety through the affect-reframing power of gratitude, and enables students to consolidate their gains by experiencing social support from a staff mentor
Curriculum Component (Grade K-5)
How to Teach Gratitude to Tweens and Teens
What Don’t We Know about Gratitude and Youth?
Three Activities to Help Students Deepen Their Gratitude
How to Stop the Culture of Complaining in Schools
Three Gratitude Lessons for K-8 Classrooms
How to Foster Gratitude in Schools
How Photography Can Help Cultivate Mindfulness and Gratitude
Gratitude Works Program (NASP’s effort to promote resilience, optimism, academic success)
31 Gratitude Exercises That Will Boost Your Happiness (+PDF)
The Gratitude Program for Kids
Growing with Gratitude
Curriculum: Thanks! A Strengths-Based Gratitude Curriculum for Tweens and Teens
Four Lessons to Help Students Understand the Meaning of Gratitude
Is Gratitude Good for Your Heath?
Nurturing Gratitude from the Inside Out: 30 Activities for Grades K-8
What are Teens Actually Thankful for
Gratitude Letter for Students: Help Students Write a Letter of Thanks and Deliver it in Person
Three Gratitude Lessons for K-8 Classrooms
Two Gratitude Practices for Building Trust Among School Staff
Gratitude Activities for the Classroom
Zest is the degree of enthusiasm and energy with which a student approaches work.
How the Science of Awe Shaped Pixar's "Soul"
Six Ways to Incorporate Awe Into Your Daily Life
Enthusiasm Worksheets and Resources (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Zest Theme Class Resources (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Build Connections (curiosity)… helps students understand how interests relate to content in school
Tips for Helping Kids Adopt a Growth Mindset
How to Help Students Feel Powerful at School
How to Nurture Empathic Joy in Your Classroom
Seven Ways to Help High Schoolers Find Purpose
Can Schools Help Students Find Flow?
How Awe Can Help Students Develop Purpose
Five Tips for Teaching Advisory Classes at Your School
Meaningful Participation Resources
Service-Learning Curriculum Ideas
Optimism is the tendency to believe that good things are to come and to have positive outlook on the future
Optimism Worksheets and Resources (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Teens Health: Optimism (audio and print forms, English and Spanish)
The Neural Basis of Optimism and Pessimism
(undue pessimism makes life miserable...excessive optimism can lead to dangerously risky behaviors...see this readable scientific review)
6 Ways to Raise an Optimistic Teen in a Pessimistic
6 Tips for Raising Optimistic Kids
Optimism: 10 Essential Optimism Skills to Teach Your Kids So They Can Achieve
Beliefs in the Future as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review (a readable review of ways to consider hope and optimism)
How to Prime your Mind for Optimism
How to Help Students Develop Hope
Can Positive Thinking Really Make Dreams Come True?
Rethinking Optimism: Fostering Confidence in Children..Easier than you Think
Back to School with Hope, Optimism, and, Maybe, Something More?
Aussie Optimism (primary and lower secondary schools)
The Hopeful Minds Program (ages 7-12 years)
Universal, Tier 1, wellness informs school-site care teams about its students' mental wellness... AND... very importantly, it provides information about ALL students' life satisfaction and emotional wellbeing... which, in turn, provides guidance about needed prevention and intervention services. This section offers information for school-site care coordination teams as they care for their children.