Implementation Resources
Check out resources for scope and sequence planning, training, and communication!
Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of own emotions.
Demonstrates awareness of personal strengths, challenges, aspirations and cultural, linguistic, and community assets.
Demonstrates awareness of personal rights and responsibilities.
Demonstrates the skills to manage and express their emotions, thoughts, impulses, and stress in effective ways.
Demonstrates the skills to set, monitor, adapt, achieve, and evaluate goals.
Demonstrates awareness of and empathy for individuals, their emotions, experiences, and perspectives through a cross-cultural lens.
Demonstrates awareness and respect of groups and their cultures, languages, identities, traditions, values, and histories.
Demonstrates awareness of how individuals and groups cooperate toward achieving common goals and ideals.
Demonstrates awareness of external supports and when supports are needed.
Demonstrates a range of communication and social skills to interact effectively.
Cultivates constructive relationships with others.
Identifies and demonstrates approaches to addressing interpersonal conflict.
Considers ethical standards, social and community norms and safety concerns in making decisions.
Applies and evaluates decision-making skills to engage in a variety of situations.
Community Building
These activities aren't skill-focused. The purpose is to build relationships and foster a sense of belonging by sharing perspectives and discovering common ground.
Flexible Extension Activities
These can be woven into your instructional sequence without affecting your topic flow.
Learn more by listening to a podcast episode where we explain these activities and offer advice.
Decision Making Scenarios
Overview: Students problem solve a social-emotional scenario and, in the process, learn how to apply a variety of SEL skills.
Materials:
**You can either use the worksheet and procedure below OR you can always read a scenario and simply informally guide discussion around it however you're most comfortable.**
Procedure:
Select a scenario. You can use the resources situation cards linked above. Alternatively, you can play a video or read a story until you come across a social problem to solve.
Provide each student with a worksheet (linked above).
Help students write out the problem in their own words on Page 1.
As a whole group, discus how big the problem is. The mouse represents the smallest problem someone could ever have (e.g., dropping a pencil) and the whale represents the biggest (e.g., losing your home in a tornado).
As a whole group, discuss options for how students could handle the situation. Coach students through the pros and cons of the ideas they have. Try to decide on the best choice together, and then help students to write out their "solution" and draw a picture of it.
Comic Strip Worksheet
Overview: A drawing activity that can be used for any of the Be Good People skills. For students who prefer not to draw, there is also a writing option.
Materials:
Colored pencils/markers/crayons
Procedure:
Print the worksheet template (linked above). Pick a Be Good People skill (e.g., a lesson you recently worked on) and write out the skill steps on the worksheet template. Make enough photocopies for your students.
The worksheet includes a drawing/comic strip option (front) but also offers a writing option (back) for students who prefer not to draw. If you don't want to offer this option, only print one half of the worksheet. If you do offer the option, begin by offering the choice to students.
Instruct students to think of a situation where somebody would need to use the SEL skill they picked. Once they have come up with one, their task is to draw (or write) the story of characters using the skill successfully in that situation.
Have students present their comic strips/stories to the class.
Movie/TV Show Scavenger Hunt
Overview: As students watch a movie or TV show, they watch out for a list of SEL skills and answer a few questions once they notice one.
Materials: Worksheet
Procedure:
Select an age-appropriate video clip to watch. Netflix's filtered selection for kids is a great place to start for finding video clips.
Before you start the video, instruct students to keep a close lookout for which social skills they see characters using. Establish a signal that students can use to alert you when they observe a skill.
When you or a student observes one of the listed SEL skills, pause the video. Facilitate a brief discussion using the questions on the worksheet. Resume the video.
Take It Further
Tools that help you embed this learning throughout the school day.
Mood Meter Visuals
Whether you're beginning class with a temperature check, chatting about the emotions of characters in a story, or supporting an agitated student, Mood Meter has you covered.
Calming Strategies Toolbox
Posters and visuals of various sizes can dot your hallways, classrooms, and staff lounges, reminding everyone of the calming tools they've learned about via Be Good People.
Skill Mini-Posters
Whether they're hung in your classroom or used in your school's discipline process, these mini-posters are a handy tool that summarizes Be Good People skills for students.
Think Sheets
Help students reflect on and learn from their mistakes by making Be Good People's Think Sheets part of your school's discipline process. Click below to print them all at once.
Values Worksheets
Help students reflect on and learn from their mistakes by making Be Good People's Values Worksheets part of your school's discipline process. Click below to print them all at once.
Academic Integration
Browse a menu of ideas for how to support this learning while teaching academic content. Group work, active learning strategies, and much more!