IMPORTANT: 
 These lesson plans are offered for teachers to browse through and to try out the ones that meets the needs of their classrooms.  They are not meant to form a rigid curriculum plan.  Please see Pedagogy: Council Habit of Mind.  We will be updating and continuing to add lesson plans, so please check back frequently.  If you would like to receive an email when we upload new content to the site or to submit a lesson plan for us to post here, please send an email to: cis2@ojaifoundation.org

Introducing Council
These lesson plans are aimed at introducing council to different grade levels and populations.  As with all council lesson plans, we recommend tailoring them to suit unique personal teaching styles and student populations.
Academic
Council is an ideal process for supporting students in the discovery of how academic content is relevant to their lived experiences.  It is part of the teacher-council facilitator’s art to develop activities and council prompts that facilitate this discovery.  You will find many excellent examples in this section.
Social Emotional
These lesson plans address, and are tagged with, one or more of these five social and emotional competencies as identified by the Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning (see -http://casel.org/basics/skills.php):
Self-awareness; Self-management; Social awareness; Relationship skills; Responsible decision-making
Holidays & School Events
These lesson plans are developed to address specific holidays or school events.  We will do our best to organize them chronologically but you may have to scroll through the list of titles or try searching a key word (such as Thanksgiving, Welcoming a New Student, Testing, or Graduation)
...Or Anything Else
Sample lesson plans for local and global events that impact the classroom. “…Or Anything Else” is a reference from our Educator Training:  When offering a council prompt, add “…or anything else” at the end.  This is to allow for participants to diverge from the suggested prompt if necessary to honor the intention to “speak from the heart.” It also refers to a suggestion that teachers “go into the skid” when their reading of the field indicates the need to revise their lesson plan.  Again, please tailor to your particular needs.