The greatest gift you can give your students is the life skills of personal reflection and vision with a take-anywhere framework.

This kit is exactly what you need to inspire and focus your students and then get to the content you need to cover. Best of all, this kit is no-prep and can be used any time of year whether it’s the new year or back to school.

This activity kit contains:

• Lesson Plan with step-by-step directions and debriefing questions
• Reflection & Visualization activity for students to brainstorm their focus and needs for the year
• Brainstorm activity for students to browse and select their perfect word (in both PDF & Google Slides)
• Tips for selecting the perfect word
• Exit Tickets reflection slips and debrief questions
• 2 poster designs for students to decorate their locker or binder
• 2 wallet-sized cards for students to put their word anywhere else
• 25 9×16 image backgrounds perfect for cellphone wallpapers (pre-loaded into Google Slides to use or download as JPEG image files)

This activity works well any time: early January, the start of the school year or semester, or whenever students need a reset!

Plus, no need to update every year— this resource doesn’t include any years, so it’s never out-of-date. Download it once!

This resource is 9 PDF pages, plus Google files. 

What grades is this intended for?
This should work for either middle or high school students. I have used it with 9th through 12th graders, but these activities don’t require any high school-specific skills. Please read the description and examine the preview file closely to determine if it is appropriate for your students.

What supports are included? Can I modify this?
Detailed teacher directions and editable Google file versions of student materials are included so you can modify activities to suit your group’s needs and setting. 

What are the terms of use for this resource?

This resource, including all ancillary files, may be used as needed for regular, non-commercial single-classroom use between a teacher and their students. 

This includes printing copies and sharing digital files with students through a secure platform, like Google Classroom or Canvas, email, or a classroom-only shared drive.

The using and sharing of any part of this resource in any manner outside the above-mentioned capacity is strictly prohibited. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to,

• posting files on the open internet or in a Facebook group
• emailing files to or sharing print copies with others (without purchasing additional licenses)
• uploading or storing files in a shared cloud drive accessible by anyone other than students
• including any part, or any derivative work, within any commercial endeavor like curriculum development, professional training, or for-profit teaching like Outschool, or selling this resource as your own in either print or digital formats

Doing so violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright law, and these terms.

By downloading this resource from Let’s Cultivate Greatness, the original user has been granted one license for a single teacher (or number of teachers matching the number of licenses purchased) and their students at any one time. 

Let’s Cultivate Greatness retains the full copyright of this resource.

This is one of my favorite post-winter break activities. This particular resource was perfect for my high schoolers. They really thought hard to complete it. – Mary

This was a great back-to-school activity for my kids. The list of words to choose from was especially helpful! – fellow teacher-author

This was such a great activity for the new year.  It really helped us to set intentions for the new year. – Gabrielle