The Complete Student Success Curriculum

Description

This complete kit includes all 20 skills, 4 unit conclusions, a course introduction, and a course conclusion! It also includes the daily Student Success Journal, which you can preview here. 

Unit 1: Develop Healthy Habits

• Skill #1: Go to class
  • Go to Class focuses on the importance of class attendance, attendance challenges across the United States, and innovative solutions to chronic absenteeism. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #2: Limit screen time
  •  Limit Screen Time focuses on how students use their phones and social media, the problems associated with each, and how students, school, and communities are trying to address the problems. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #3: Take care of yourself
  •  Take Care of Yourself focuses on the importance of sleep and exercise for school success with an extension activity at the end that has students reflect on other components of self-care. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #4: Get organized
  •  Get Organized focuses on digital and physical organization from learning how to delete emails to organizing a backpack. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #5: Set goals
  • Set Goals focuses on the importance of goal setting and helping students think about what they want in five and ten years. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Unit 1 Conclusion

Unit 2: Own Your Story

• Skill #6: Know Yourself
  • Know Yourself focuses on self-awareness, from what it is to what students see as their own strengths and who they want to be. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #7: Build a Self-Regulation Toolkit
  • Build a Self-Regulation Toolkit focuses on building students’ self-awareness of their own emotional state, triggers, physical responses, and self-regulation strategies. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #8: Show Empathy and Compassion
  • Show Empathy & Compassion focuses on activities and videos that encourage students to understand and engage in acts of kindness, empathy, and compassion. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #9: Be Mindful and Breathe
  •  Be Mindful & Breathe focuses on the benefits and practice of mindfulness and of conscious breathing for emotional regulation and school success. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #10: Have a Growth Mindset
  •  Have a Growth Mindset focuses on understanding growth mindsets, their importance, and how to cultivate them. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Unit 2 Conclusion

Unit 3: Sharpen Your Study Skills

• Skill #11: Be an Active Learner
  • Be an Active Learner focuses on helping students understand and enact active learning strategies, from finding a reason to care to listening with your brain and body. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #12: Take Notes
  •  Take Notes focuses on the why and how of note taking in class. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #13: Find Ways to Focus
  • In response to years of students stating that they want to focus better, this lesson focuses on strategies that can help students focus in class. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #14: Get Meta About Assignments
  • Get Meta About Assignments focuses on metacognitive strategies for breaking down and managing longer assignments and for understanding complex reading passages. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #15: Study Smart for Tests
  • Study Smart for Tests focuses on study strategies from attending class and participating to how to use flashcards to study. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Unit 3 Conclusion

Unit 4: Speak Up and Step Up

• Skill #16: Manage Stress Effectively
  • Manage Stress Effectively focuses on understanding how stress works in the body, the differences between good and bad stress, and strategies for managing stress. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #17: Manage Your Time
  • Manage Your Time focuses on prioritization, to-do lists, and other tools to help students make the most of the time that they have in and out of school. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #18: Persevere and Stay Gritty
  • Persevere & Stay Gritty focuses on the importance of persevering even in the fact of obstacles and times in students’ lives when they have shown grit. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #19: Advocate for Yourself
  •  Advocate for Yourself focuses on the importance of standing up for yourself and how to do it in a way that helps, and not hurts, you. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Skill #20: Hold Yourself Accountable
  •  Hold Yourself Accountable focuses on personal responsibility, problem solving, and taking agency in your own life. See a preview of the student activities here.
• Unit 4 Conclusion

Fine Print

When you purchase the curriculum, you will be able to immediately download the answer keys and student materials for the individual skills. You can also download the materials again as needed from your account. All slideshows are available free. 

Welcome to the Student Success Curriculum!

This 20 lesson, full year curriculum helps you teach students the skills they need to excel at school, from showing up for classes to self-advocating to studying smarter for tests. Stop just writing goals for executive functioning and start teaching it. 

Each multi-day lesson includes a slideshow, answer key, and guided notes packet for students with reflection and extension activities. Each lesson stands o