Curriculum Updates
Elementary Updates
Announcing our all-new unit: Kindness Closure!
- Overview: Kindness Closure is a 2-week, end-of-year unit designed to help you finish the school year with intentional reflection, a lot of fun, and challenges to continue growing all summer long! You’ll find lots of new content and a few favorites as well.
- Launch date: February 12th
- Where to find it: Access it at the bottom of your grade level hub.
Take a tour: Click here for a sneak peek!
Coming soon: We continue to add new Connect games every month. The latest additions can be found in Honesty, with Cooperation coming up next!
MS & HS Updates
What's New? Group Project sessions are now live for all grades 6-12! These multi-part series consist of 3 to 5 30-minute sessions in each grade level, which can be extended to fit a 45-minute class period. Each Group Project facilitates cooperative learning centered around themes of belonging, well-being, and school engagement.
These sessions exist independently of the general curriculum scope and sequence as an additional resource to supplement your instruction and engage students in project-based learning.
Learn more about updates and improvements to our curriculum and these projects under Campus Updates (Middle School updates, High School updates). You can view the new Group Projects page under Campus Resources (Middle School, High School).
Coming Soon: Printable Supports. Printable supporting documents will be coming soon for any sessions that require students to create multi-step responses or written reflections. For example, new this year in 11th Grade is a session called, “The Power of Gratitude,” where students have the opportunity to identify and thank their “F.I.S.H.”-- Friend, Inspiration, Supporter, Hero.
Included with this is a printable F.I.S.H. Award certificate in English and Spanish, that students can use to thank this person of influence. These printables will be found in the session’s At-A-Glance under “Modifications.”
Tier 2 Updates
Early bird pricing ends on February 9th! Don't miss your opportunity to attend our Tier 2 Certification Training in Huntington Beach, CA on March 4th and 5th with hundreds of educators focused on certifying building, district, and regional leaders in cutting-edge tools, resources, and support from research to achieve high fidelity, sustained implementation of Tier 2.
The last 2 have sold out... Click here to learn more.
Tier 3 Updates
We are officially launching our Tier 3 Solution for K-12 schools. The CharacterStrong Tier 3 solution is about optimizing a school’s capacity to deliver high-quality personalized intervention for students with the most intense social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Click here to learn more.
We also have an upcoming Tier 3 demo where our team will show you a behind-the-scenes look at what we have built, and answer any questions you may have. Sign up here.
The Gym Updates
What’s New? The Gym is a library of social, emotional, and character development resources for educators, administrators, students, and families. We’ve added some exciting new resources this month!
New entry tasks! There are now 90 entry tasks for each of our grade-level bands; they are flexible across many grade levels. Here is one of our favorite new prompts added to the Middle School Words from Around the World:
45 new videos have also been added. There are new additions for each grade-level band.
Over 50 new activities in the Activity Library! These, too, span all grade level bands and include a special focus on academic processing strategies.
Check out two of our favorites:
- Activity Library: Tapping Toward Courage
- Video Library: Creative Solution: Brad Montague
Professional Development
Looking to improve academic outcomes, increase belonging, and decrease classroom disruptions? Don’t miss our Regional School Culture Trainings happening near you this spring! This energizing training provides practical and scaleable tools that all educators will love.
Did you know: Our Professional Development sessions have been rated 9.4 out of 10 by over 14,000 educators?
Upcoming dates and locations:
Houston, TX - February 22, 2024 - Sign-Up HereNashville, TN - March 7, 2024 - Sign-Up Here (Early Bird Pricing Ends February 7th)
Sacramento, CA - March 14, 2024 - Sign-Up Here (Early Bird Pricing Ends February 14th)
Madison, WI - March 21, 2024 - Sign-Up Here (Early Bird Pricing Ends February 21st)
Student Leadership
Pro Tip: As staff members return from winter break use initiatives like Static Electricity Field (Service Leadership: Unit 7, Lesson 33) or Lava Pit (Foundations of Leadership: Unit 4, Lesson 7). Both activities focus on commitment which can be a great team-building activity to recommit to this important work.
Check out our updated Samples experience if you’re interested in learning more about Foundations of Leadership (MS) or Service Leadership (HS).
Implementation Supports
We've announced our Not Your Typical MTSS Summit! This is a free Virtual Summit taking place Feb. 27th - 29th, 2024.
At this year’s virtual Not Your Typical MTSS Summit, you will hear from research and practice experts across the different domains of MTSS. What is not typical about this summit is that we are bringing experts together to talk about how to stop the siloes and integrate the work in a feasible and effective way that leads to better outcomes. The design of this summit will offer a way for school systems to approach MTSS through the lens of integration by co-constructing plans across domains and collaboratively problem-solving common issues.
