The Middle School Set
Support early adolescent development with the new Middle School Set.
This set combines 13 Girls Circle® and The Council for Boys and Young Men® resources to strengthen identity development, healthy relationships, and emotional growth through engaging activities for the middle school age bracket. Don't miss 15% off — use code NEWSET15 at checkout. Offer ends June 30.
Support early adolescent development with the new Middle School Set. This comprehensive collection brings together facilitator manuals, evaluation tools, and 13 Girls Circle® and Council resources designed to meet the developmental needs of middle school youth.
Through engaging, age-appropriate activities, this set supports facilitators in creating safe, structured spaces where youth can develop healthy relationships and strengthen emotional awareness. Topics such as friendship, online safety, body image, bullying, family, and culture are addressed through the Circle model, fostering connection, respect, and a sense of belonging during a critical stage of growth.
Includes the following titles: Being a Girl, Body Image, Brothers as Allies, Empowerment and Identity on Social Media, Expressing My Individuality, Friendship, Growing Healthy, Going Strong, Honoring Our Diversity, My Family My Self, and Standing Together: A Journey Into Respect. This, in addition to the Girls Circle® Facilitator Manual, Girls Circle® Evaluation Toolkit, and The Council for Boys and Young Men® Facilitator Manual. (The Council Evaluation Toolkit is available as a free download.)
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| 8 sessions | Friendship Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Groundbreaking guide that addresses exclusion, intolerance, and feuding. Confronts relational aggression and shores girls up with strong interpersonal skills; knocks down barriers to pride, confidence, and empathy. Themes include topics such as "Being Included, Being Left Out," & "Feuds, Followers, & Fairness." Increases caring and relational competence. |
| 8 sessions | Being a Girl Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Introduces girls to the positive experience of a support circle addressing topics such as "Growing Up Female," "Growth and Self-Care," and "Female Role Models." Activities include collage, affirmations, and theme-related crafts. Great kit for middle-school girls new to support groups. |
| 10 sessions | Body Image Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Examines cultural messages and personal beliefs that influence body image. Themes emphasize raising awareness, recognizing body signals, and exploring underlying causes of poor body image. Topics cover physical awareness, health, and emotional balance through media exploration, imagery, art, personal story telling, and more. Excellent prevention program. |
| 12 sessions | Honoring Our Diversity Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Recognizes girls’ varied cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds emphasizing positive identity and alliance building. Includes discussions and activities that cover topics such as “Stereotype Busting,“ “Beyond Fear,“ “Cultural Treasures,“ “Culture Clash,“ and includes a community advocacy exercise. Themes focus on appreciating diversity in girls lives by identifying biases, developing navigational tools in a multi-cultural society, and promoting understanding and respect within and between groups. Guide includes a girls'' journal for weekly reflection. |
| 8 sessions | Expressing My Individuality Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Explores topics such as celebrating individuality, diversity, getting along with others, and addresses goals, conflict styles, feeling good about ourselves, and taking time to relax. Activities include values exploration, "How Others See Me," making dream catchers, potting a plant to symbolize personal growth, and finally culminates with a girls'' compliment circle. A variety of topics and activities for middle and high school girls! |
| 8 sessions | My Family, My Self Girls Circle® Activity Guide | This essential guide gets at the critical importance of girls’ development within the context of their family relationships and offers girls the opportunity to safely and respectfully acknowledge and explore the many gifts and challenges of growing up within the family unit. Girls are invited to share the influence of their families and cultural values on their own social-emotional development, and build skills to strengthen their confidence in relationships with relatives and peers. |
| 10 sessions | Empowerment and Identity on Social Media Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Empowerment and Identity on Social Media is a curriculum with essential tools and resources to promote healthy development for youth growing up in today’s digital world. Providing skills development for media literacy, digital citizenship, and more accurate information on how to use social media safely and in more of an emotionally healthy manner, this curriculum harnesses the relational strengths of youth to effectively explore the complex intersecting topics of technology, body image, cyberbullying, exploitation, and relationships. |
| 10 sessions | Growing Healthy, Going Strong The Council Activity Guide | Boys will have fun identifying social-emotional messages, experiences, attitudes, and smart options for growing up male in our culture. Competition, bullying, recognizing and expressing emotions, male and female role expectations, self confidence, and teamwork are highlighted through games and team challenges. Boys develop vocabulary and skills to expect and enact fairness, healthy competition, and respect for self and others. |
| 10 sessions | Standing Together: A Journey Into Respect The Council Activity Guide | This guide provides engaging ways to address common themes which pre-teens and early adolescents encounter, including breaking down social-cultural barriers, motives and actions around put-downs, knowing their personal rights, defining assumptions about male power, respecting others'' physical boundaries, understanding and using the energy of strong emotions, and standing up for each other in community. |
| 10 sessions | Brothers as Allies The Council Activity Guide | This guide has been developed to provide social support for boys, promote pro-social behaviors, build empathy, encourage resistance against bullying, and interrupt violence. It also addresses gender roles and expectations, self-expression, healthy masculinity, respect for differences, positive ethnic identity, communication, empathy, and becoming allies. Originally created as part of a 4-year study funded by the CDC in New York State, Brothers as Allies is a compilation of sessions from other Council activity guides aimed at preventing violence. |
| Girls Circle® Facilitator Manual | Start your Girls Circle® journey here by learning the guiding principles, theoretical framework, and foundational structure of the Girls'' Circle program, a research based model proven to increase girls’ self-efficacy, body image, and social support. Facilitators and organizations that serve girls in any setting or culture will find this one-of-kind facilitator manual rich with practical, useful information presented in our workshop. | |
| The Council for Boys and Young Men® Facilitator Manual | This manual outlines the facilitator skills needed to implement the strengths-based Council program within their organizational settings and is a potent tool that is full of practical, useful information presented in our workshop. Includes: Resiliency and Strengths-Based Principles, Masculinity Identity Theories, the Male Brain, Outline of The Council Model and Format, Role of the Facilitator, Responding to the Stages of Group Development, Building Ownership in the Council, How to Reduce and Respond Effectively to Challenging Behaviors, and the Experiential Model. Prepares agencies and individuals to offer boys a solid pathway toward healthy masculine identity development and encourages boys’ solidarity through personal and collective responsibility. | |
| Girls Circle® Evaluation Tool Kit | Contains all the materials you need to measure outcomes with your Girls Circle® program in conjunction with any combination of the Girls Circle® Activity Guides. This comprehensive Toolkit and Administrative Manual provides the Girls Circle® Survey, a measurement instrument designed specifically for use within organizations using the Girls Circle® model, and integrates a validated self-efficacy instrument. Additional contents include step-by-step instructions for program evaluation, consent forms, and information sheets. Spanish language Survey and forms also included. Reproducible within purchasing organizations. |