Back-to-School Resources
Back-to-School Resources
Back-to-School Resources Hub
Heading back to school means helping students adjust to new teachers, new routines, new expectations, and new social situations. For educators, therapists, and parents, it's also a time to find the right tools to support that transition.
This resource hub brings together articles, lessons, strategies, and activities from the Social Thinking® Methodology and beyond to support the social, academic, and executive functioning skills students use every day. Take a look at some of our newest work and then keep scrolling to find bundles, downloadable tools, training options, freebies, and articles.
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Our Newest Products
Let’s Solve It! Step-by-Step Social Problem Solving with Kids
Ages: Ages 7-9
The award-winning Let’s Solve It! Step-by-Step Social Problem Solving with Kids, 3-book Teaching Set, gives educators, therapists, parents, and caregivers a structured, visual, step-by-step way to teach kids about social problem solving through illustrated stories and problem-solving templates. Two storybooks help kids explore situations through multiple perspectives, while the companion teaching templates enhance understanding of basic concepts, encourage engagement, and build critical thinking skills.
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Brain Hacks Graphic Novel and Thinksheets Book Bundle
Ages: Ages 9-18 Bundle
This powerful bundle, which includes the colorful and dynamic Brain Hacks graphic novel and the companion workbook, Thinksheets for Brain Hacks, shares practical strategies for tweens and teens to build their executive function skills. They will learn how thoughts, feelings, memories, and imagination can team up to build confidence, motivation, and problem-solving skills. This set is packed with useful neurodiversity affirming tools to help students (and their support team) apply the concepts shared in the graphic novel to their daily lives.
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$43.99
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Brain Hacks - Graphic Novel
Ages: Ages 9-18
Brain Hacks is a colorful, high-energy graphic novel where five teens meet online, form friendships and discuss the ups and downs of their different high school experiences. In this process, they imagine a helpful brain-based CREW that consists of 4 different characters; each one offering a different set of practical strategies for the teens to carry out. With science-powered “mind magic,” they learn how thoughts, feelings, memories, and imagination can team up to build confidence, motivation, and problem-solve which all involve executive functioning. Packed with dynamic visuals, time-travel, and brain-boosting tips, this adventure makes managing a tween or teen’s mind feel like the coolest superpower ever.
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$28.99
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Thinksheets for Brain Hacks
Ages: Ages 11-18
Turn insight into action. Thinksheets for Brain Hacks is the hands-on companion workbook to the Brain Hacks graphic novel—featuring 50+ pages of thinksheets (aka thinking based lesson plans), charts, reflection prompts, and practical tools that bring every chapter to life. Designed for educators and young adult readers alike, this workbook style teaching tool bridges the gap between understanding and doing. Whether you're assisting tweens or teens or they are working through these ideas on their own, the neurodiversity-affirming tools within this book help connect the dots between what they've learned and how they can apply them in their daily lives.
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$19.99
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Healthy Relationships
Ages: Ages 11-18
Relationships during the teen years can be amazing, confusing, exciting—and sometimes a little messy. This empowering journal is your tween/teen's personal guide to figuring it all out. Whether it's a friendship, a crush, or someone they've just started hanging out with, teens deserve to feel safe, respected, and heard. Through thoughtful prompts, honest conversations, and room to reflect, this journal helps them explore what makes relationships work—and what doesn't.
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$24.99
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Back-to-School Bundles
Early Learner Bundle
Ages: Ages 4-7 Bundle
Save 10% when you purchase this early learner starter bundle that includes our two award-winning social learning curricula for early learners and two illustrated children’s books on understanding and managing their anxiety.
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$340.99
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Bestselling Elementary Essentials Bundle
Ages: Ages 5-10+ Bundle
You have to reach kids before you can teach them! Save 10% with this bundle of ten products, including two fun & kid-friendly Social Thinking® social learning curricula, a popular social learning card game, and innovative teaching ideas that engage children ages 5-12 in social, emotional, and academic learning that feels relevant to their lives and taps into activities they love.
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$386.99
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Tweens & Teens Bundle
Ages: Ages 10+ Activities
The social world is complicated. So are tweens and teens. They typically don’t want to be told what to do yet still struggle to solve their problems independently. As social learners, they need guidance and support in a way that feels right and makes sense to them. Save 10% with this bundle of 11 items that speak directly to a variety of social learning needs of tweens and teens. Sometimes with humor but always encouraging them to learn how the social world works so they can logically learn new social competencies to help them meet their own goals. This collection provides a range of information, visual supports, hands-on strategies, and tools to best meet their needs and developmental ages.
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$280.99
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Superflex Series All-in-One Bundle
Ages: Ages 5-10+ Bundle
Welcome to the Superflex® Universe where students learn to become their own social superheroes—observing situations, interpreting clues, taking perspective, social problem solving, and using metacognitive strategies to self-regulate to meet their social and academic goals. Get the entire Superflex Series collection, featuring all sorts of teaching tools from our Dynamic Duo (Social Detective and Superflex).
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$368.99
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Zones All-in-One Across Age Groups Bundle
Ages: Ages 5-18 Bundle
Get in the zone! This bundle provides all the books and games developed to support and extend teaching students ages 5-18+ The Zones of Regulation curriculum with fidelity. It includes the all new Getting Into The Zones of Regulation, the award-winning 2-Storybook Set, two award-winning Tools to Try card decks for different age groups, the Navigating The Zones game, and its supplemental Advanced Pack. Save 10% with this bundle and have the flexibility and developmental tools to engage youngsters, tweens, and teens.
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Digital Downloads
Social Detective and Superflex Activity Collection (Digital Download)
Ages: Ages 5-10+ Activities
Time to power up and lock in learning with this new set of 25 Social Detective and Superflex coloring/activity sheets! This coloring/activity set features 7 Social Detective and 18 Superflex pages to extend the learning. This set is a way for kids to reflect on their learning, work on their fine motor skills, or build their curiosity and imagination about the Thinkables and UnthinkaBot characters! If you’re new to the Superflex Metaverse, that’s okay. This download is nonrefundable. Download access is limited to the purchaser of this digital download only. Access instructions will be emailed after purchase.
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People Files to Conversations Bundle: Part 1 (Digital Download)
Ages: Ages 7-11 Activities
This is a bundle set of 5 Thinksheets (14 pages) in a series of lessons teaching about what we call PEOPLE FILES. People files help us to understand ourselves and others. They are foundational tools for having conversations. You might have seen this download listed in our official Social Thinking TPT Store. Please make sure to check you don't already own this since this download is nonrefundable. Download access is limited to the purchaser of this digital download only. Access instructions will be emailed after purchase.
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People Files + Asking Questions = Detectives Bundle: Part 2 (Digital Download)
Ages: Ages 7-11 Activities
This is a bundle of 11 thinksheets that contain lessons that build and extend on Part 1: People files to Conversations Bundle. In this Part 2, students learn about Question words and how to use their observational skills to make people files that help them to ask others questions and in the process learn about being a Social Detective. You might have seen this download listed in our official Social Thinking TPT Store. Please make sure to check you don't already own this since this download is nonrefundable. Download access is limited to the purchaser of this digital download only. Access instructions will be emailed after purchase.
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Chores: Superflex Executive Functioning Bundle (Digital Download)
Ages: 8-12 Activities
Doing chores requires executive functioning! Building EF is not just about tasks at home. Chores (or things we don't want to do) can require structured teaching. We know that learning how to do this isn't always motivating for kids. We've pulled together 21 pages using Superflex and the Team of UnthinkaBots as the backdrop! While you'll be able to use most printables without first introducing the Superflex curriculum, most kids will learn better with after participating in lessons from the Superflex Series. You might have seen this download listed in our official Social Thinking TPT Store. Please make sure to check you don't already own this since this download is nonrefundable. Download access is limited to the purchaser of this digital download only. Access instructions will be emailed after purchase.
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Tools and Tips for Gatherings and Groups (Digital Download)
Ages: Ages 7-11 Activities
This is a bundle set of 9 pages of thinksheets and lessons for teaching strategies to prepare students for groups and gatherings, something our students encounter on a regular basis. Use these thinksheets to help your students, clients or children prepare for holiday gatherings, group events, or just sharing space with others. You might have seen this download listed in our official Social Thinking TPT Store. Please make sure to check you don't already own this since this download is nonrefundable. Download access is limited to the purchaser of this digital download only. Access instructions will be emailed after purchase.
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$10.00
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On Demand Courses
Teaching the We Thinkers! Curriculum Series with Fidelity: A Short Course
This short 2-hour course is designed to give educators, therapists, and parents/caregivers an understanding of the We Thinkers! series, a metacognitive curriculum for 4- to 7-year-olds. It introduces social cognitive concepts; strategies for implementing the series with fidelity, including engineering the environment, pacing, and playing with the concepts; and highlights key components of social thinking, group formulation, and service delivery. Lessons are story-based, games oriented, and support inquiry-based learning using hands-on, multisensory teaching tools. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.
Download this free infographic on building social competencies for early learners.
Teaching the Superflex Curriculum Series with Fidelity: A Short Course
Educators, therapists, and caregivers have been asking for a motivating and fun way to teach elementary students social, emotional, and academic concepts. This short course will focus on the theory underlying core lessons and how to implement a detective and superhero themed social, emotional, and academic learning (SEAL) teaching series with fidelity. Consider this to be the essential crash course for implementing the Dynamic Duo Curriculum series with fidelity. Content is designed for students 7-11+ years. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.
Back-to-School Strategies for Executive Function Success
Teach It Today, See It Tomorrow
Join Sarah Ward and Kristen Jacobsen for this dynamic and practical back-to-school course that introduces powerful, ready-to-use strategies from the new Time Tracker Program, designed to help students shift from relying on adult prompting to becoming truly independent planners. This session will equip educators, therapists, and parents with concrete tools to make time visible and help students envision it, plan it, do it, and get it done! The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.
Implementing Social Thinking Concepts and Vocabulary
Both teachers and learners need practical ways to think about the social world. In this introductory course, you will learn 15+ practical teaching strategies using Social Thinking Vocabulary and visual frameworks. The activities from this course focus on making abstract social information more concrete through lessons to teach social learners how to socially attend, interpret, problem solve, and respond to social information. Activities will also focus on strategies for teaching emotional understanding, theory of mind/perspective taking, and executive functioning to help learners meet their own social goals. **Note: This course is introductory and designed for those who are new to Social Thinking or just want to expand how they teach lessons from the Social Thinking Methodology. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.
Free Stuff for Home & School
Free Webinars
- Watch For Free The Social Thinking - Social Competency Model
- Watch For Free Social Detective - Thinking to Start the School Year
- Watch For Free Embedding Social Thinking TPT and other Free Lessons into your Teaching
Free Articles & Downloadables
DOs and DON'Ts for Teaching with Social Thinking Materials
While traveling, people inquire about the "DOs and DON'Ts" of Social Thinking. The response emphasizes flexibility, observation, support, and presence. It turns out that the advice given to students and clients applies to everyone.
The Social Thinking–Social Competency Model (ST-SCM)
Have you ever wondered how do we know what to do or say in a given situation? The Social Thinking-Social Competency Model breaks down this big, complex process into four foundational steps.
The Social Thinking Vocabulary
The energy of students flows from the hallway into the classroom as a new school day begins. Students put their bodies in the group, think with their eyes to make a smart guess about the group plan, and use flexible thinking and problem solving throughout the day.
10 DOs and DON'Ts for Teaching Superflex
Superflex® has become super-popular! We have enjoyed hearing from so many people around the world about their love of Superflex and the Team of UnthinkaBots and Thinkables and the positive effect the Superflex curriculum has on helping individuals become better social thinkers and social problem solvers!
How to Foster Students’ Flexible Thinking & Advocacy Skills Using Future Thinking
Engage your students in the Someday in School activity, a low-effort, high-impact group activity that cultivates future thinking, reasoning, and flexible thinking to develop advocacy skills, while fostering goal setting, interactions with others, and the practice of using their voice for advocacy.