Curricula 

The Learning About Ourselves and Others unit will introduce students in Preschool to key concepts, skills, and strategies as they navigate learning about and regulating feelings in community with others. This learning will support and promote friendship and empathy in learning spaces and throughout the broader community, as students get to know themselves and others.

• Outcome: Students will learn about feelings in themselves and others.

• Number of Lessons: 13

The Exploring Feelings unit focuses on teaching students in Kindergarten how to identify and understand the feelings they experience each and every day. Students then take what they have learned about their own feelings and apply this knowledge to learning more about the feelings of others. “Tuning into feelings” in oneself and in others, considering others’ points of view, and demonstrating solidarity, are all important parts of developing emotional literacy and essential in future learnings about empathy. As with anything, students can grow and develop their brain to understand and show empathy.

• Outcome: Students will identify feelings in others, as they build empathy skills.

• Number of Lessons: 11

The Building Our Learning Community unit focuses on teaching students in first grade how to put what they have learned about empathy into the context of real relationships. Students will examine their own friendships and relationships and begin to uncover what makes them feel supported, uplifted, and like they belong.

• Outcome: Students will use their empathy skills as they interact in community. 

• Number of Lessons: 12

The Embracing Empathy unit will refine students' knowledge as it relates to concepts, skills, and strategies for examining their own feelings, exploring the concept of growth mindset, and developing an understanding of perspective as they move toward a recognition of the importance of empathy in relationships.

• Outcome: Students will establish a growth mindset.

• Number of Lessons: 13

The Celebrating Disability as Diversity unit will help students refine their knowledge around key concepts, skills, and strategies as they are explicitly introduced to disability and the assumptions surrounding it. This learning will support and promote identity pride for disabled students and provide factual representation of disability for all. Students will be provided with a definition to help them demystify disability and understand ableism, as they engage in ongoing learning to understand disability as one aspect of human diversity. 

• Outcome: Students will recognize disability as a form of human diversity.

• Number of Lessons: 11

This unit aims to help students answer three essential questions:

• What does it mean to be a good friend?

• Why is there no such thing as “normal”?

• Why do we share our stories with others?

The Valuing Our Diversity unit will develop or deepen students’ understanding of disability and the assumptions surrounding it. This learning will support and promote identity pride for disabled students and provide factual representation of disability for all. Students will be provided with a definition to help them demystify disability and understand ableism, as they engage in ongoing learning to understand disability as one aspect of human diversity.

• Outcome: Students will celebrate the value in themselves and others.

• Number of Lessons: 14

Co-authored by Storyteller, Kevin Kling, Everyone Has a Story will introduce students to key concepts, skills, and strategies to examine their identities, even, and especially, as they change over time. The lessons within this unit will teach students to nurture self love and empower them to articulate their experiences and perspectives in any number of different ways, to forge connections with others and impact positive social change. We offer students a chance to play with storytelling through different mediums and activities, and introduce them to the work of a group of storytellers.

• Outcome: Students will establish themselves as storytellers.

• Number of Lessons: 10

The Intro to Disability Studies unit takes a deep dive into disability history. Students will learn about disability as a form of human diversity, how to be an aspiring ally, and how to be an includer. This learning will continue promoting identity pride for disabled students and provide factual history of disability for all.

• Outcome: Students will establish themselves as aspiring allies and advocates.

• Number of Lessons: 9

This unit takes a deep dive into disability awareness education, disability history, and disability justice. Students will learn about disability as a form of human diversity, how to be an aspiring ally, and how to be an includer.

• Outcome: Students will make their school more inclusive from a physical, social or cultural standpoint.

• Approximate Number of Goals: 17

Lessons are referred to as “goals” and objectives are referred to as “facilitator goals” in this unit.

This unit takes a deep dive into disability awareness education, disability history, and disability justice. Students will learn about disability as a form of human diversity, how to be an aspiring ally, and how to be an includer.

• Standards: Community and Advocacy

• Outcome: Students will make their community more inclusive from a physical, social or cultural standpoint.

• Approximate Number of Goals: 17

Lessons are referred to as “goals” and objectives are referred to as “facilitator goals” in this unit.

Designed for students in grades PreK to 3, this series of lessons is based around a "Drop Everything and Read"(D.E.A.R.) format. It addresses emotional literacy and regulation, empathy skills, and celebrating disability as a form of human diversity. These simple lessons can be adapted for students in preschool through third grade.

This unit contains 10 lesson plans for 10 picture books by diverse authors featuring a broad array of characters.

This program, designed for a setting structured around recreation and play, engages children grades K-4 in learning about friendship, emotional regulation, empathy, and diversity. Project Play is a perfect fit for a camp setting or child care program, or a supplement to extracurricular activities.

This unit contains 10 lesson plans featuring fun activities that will help teach skills and build community.

Designed for students in grades 3-6, this unit provides essential instruction in empathy and friendship skills. Students explore how to manage their own emotions, how to demonstrate empathy toward others, and how to be a good friend to everyone. This unit contains 9 lessons.