Make It Happen
4-5 Core Edition
It takes more than materials to implement Be Good People. On the page below, check out resources designed to support you in planning an effective scope and sequence, training staff, and communicating with stakeholders.
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Teacher Training and Coaching
Each lesson is designed to be 25 minutes long. At the elementary level, teachers typically use Be Good People during morning meetings or another skinny block.
At the elementary level, typically schools begin the week on Monday with a Be Good People Lesson. Tuesday might be designated as a flex day where teachers have the option to finish their lesson if it wasn't completed on Monday.
Schools often offer teachers the Be Good People Extension Activities and Community Building activities for optional use throughout the rest of each week.
Observation Form - Be Good People (Updated 2/20/23).pdfObservation Form
Training is only one part of effective implementation—monitoring fidelity and providing coaching support is very beneficial.
This Observation Form is a helpful tool for coaches, but it can also be used by teachers to self-reflect on their own instruction.
Planning Your School-Wide Instructional Sequence
The Be Good People lessons can be taught in virtually any order, and schools value this flexibility. That said, we strongly recommend organizing the lessons into a logical sequence and "clusters" of related topics.
Family Communication
Check out this example parent handout, which you can easily copy and then customize to match the details of your implementation and your school's communication style. You might distribute this during an open house before the school year begins or share it out in a school newsletter.
Student Learning Log
In the Be Good People lessons and activities, students encounter learning badges aligned to the 5 SEL standards + values icons (e.g., respect, kindness, determination, etc.). We created this Learning Log to help elementary students keep track of which badges and values they're seeing throughout the school year. Teachers can pause at the end of each lesson or activity, prompt students to pull out their Learning Log, and then together the class can color in a coin for each of the learning badges and values they learned about.
Teachers may elect to tie an informal incentive system to this Learning Log (e.g., "for every #__ coins we earn, we'll have a dance party") but we recommend that if this occurs it be kept loose — optional, informal, and teacher-specific. This Learning Log is not designed to operate in place of a school-wide incentive system (i.e., students earning tickets throughout the school day when they demonstrate one of the school-wide expectations).
