Heart Garden SEL

A comprehensive 9-week high school transition curriculum focused on the 26 principles of A Disciplined Life (ADL). This curriculum empowers 9th graders to build personal character, master effective communication, and lead positive change, culminating in a creative songwriting and lyric performance project.

A comprehensive back-to-school character education unit centered around the schoolwide EVCS CARES values: Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-Control. Each value is taught through active modeling, guided practice, and reflection, culminating in a schoolwide community project.

A 4-day small group intervention sequence for K-2 students focused on developing basic emotion regulation skills (breathing, breaks, and resting) with adult prompting, aligned with the CASEL Self-Management framework.

A comprehensive, proactive middle school curriculum designed to counter discipline trends of verbal aggression, profanity, drama, and disrespect through social-emotional learning, interactive role-plays, parent partnership, and a unified school-wide visual campaign.

A 4-day small-group SEL unit for grades 3-5 focusing on the CASEL framework for identifying basic and complex emotions, tracking emotional shifts, and developing coping strategies.

A comprehensive, 5-day universal lesson sequence designed to teach STAR expectations (Safe, Targeting Success, Acting with Integrity, Respectful & Responsible) across any campus location, customized for K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 with a superhero pop-art aesthetic.

An interactive, explorer-themed social-emotional learning unit designed to help kindergarteners master school readiness. Students learn whole-body listening, raising hands, and smooth classroom transitions through engaging games and active practice.

An emotional regulation and perspective-taking sequence for 4th-grade students, focusing on size of the problem, self-talk, unstructured environments, and partner cooperation.

A structured 4-week emotional regulation and growth mindset sequence for Year 2 students struggling with academic frustration. Designed for weekly 20-30 minute sessions with a Wellbeing Officer, using a soccer analogy to build resilience, introduce coping 'plays', normalize mistakes, and establish a daily desk goalie tracker.