Guidance Curriculum

Guidance curriculum competencies have been articulated preK-12 aligned with the American Counseling Association, the Texas Higher Education Board, Texas Education Agency, and the Texas Workforce Commission.

WhyTry Program 

• • Programs teach critical social and emotional life skills. We help students answer the question… why try? Why should I put effort into life, school, or work? The WhyTry strengths-based approach can help your students look at their challenges differently. 

  • The WhyTry Program utilizes a flexible lesson plan that allows you to effectively teach program concepts in a ten-minute solution-focused therapy session or in an hour-long class. The program has been used in open and closed groups; it’s been incorporated into the daily lesson repertoire of teachers and as a ready-made toolkit in school counselors’ offices. The program fits into all three tiers of the RTI model but is used primarily for Tiers 2 and 3.  

Resilience for Youth

• •  Four sources of resilience that help every person in a school – students, teachers, and staff – identify where resilience is found and how to access it. Taken from WhyTry Founder Christian Moore’s renowned book The Resilience Breakthrough the strategies in this engaging new program will transform the way you and your students view life’s challenges. 

Overcoming Obstacles Guidance Curriculum

• Overcoming Obstacles is a Free, Award-Winning & Research-Based K-12 Life Skills Curriculum. Visit the Digital Library to Download the Curricula, Available In Multiple Languages. Elementary 3-5 Curriculum. Middle School Curriculum. Free K-12 Lessons. 

Core Essentials - Guidance curriculum pre-K through 12th grade

• • • More than character education

    • Over time, kids decide what they believe about values, behaviors, and choices and it doesn't happen overnight.  It always needs to be reinforced.

    • We equip schools, families, and communities to instill values, those inward attitudes that become outward behaviors.

    • By using a common language of a monthly value and it’s simple definition along with easy-to-implement resources, we help kids in schools and their families:

      • treat others right

      • make smart decisions

      • maximize their potential

    • Counselors work with the campus secretaries after July 1 and request a Purchase Order.  

      • Provide the PO to the vendor, Core Essentials

      • Email Elizabeth Higgins, ehiggins@coreessentials.org or info@coreessentials.org  to order materials

    • Core Essential Values

      • 2020-2021 Core Essential Values

      • 2019-2020 Core Essential Values

      • 2018-2019 Core Essential Values

Sanford Harmony - SEL Guidance Curriculum  

• • free program, promoting positive peer relationships through lessons and activities that encourage communication, collaboration, and mutual respect, helping boys and girls learn how to build healthy relationships beginning at childhood. 

Character Strong - Guidance curriculum  pre-K through 12th grade

• • • Social Emotional Learning and character development in one

      • Our curricula and trainings are focused on fostering the Whole Child with vertically-aligned lessons that teach SEL and character, side-by-side.

        • SEL Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making

        • Character Development: Patience, Kindness, Honesty, Respect, Selflessness, Forgiveness, Commitment, Humility

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Future Ready Days/Curriculum

Texas School Procedures 

• Trainings

  • For Counselor - Counseling Programs 

    • District log in 

      • Username: Forney ISD

      • PW -  Forney#Proud