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K-12 Well-Being Curriculum
Build confidence and competence in your students and teachers. Our curriculum includes over 60 lessons with hands-on activities, topic-based reflection prompts, engaging discussions, videos, read-alouds, graphic organizers, and integrated deep learning opportunities.
Whole System Well-Being
Well-being ensures that all students and educators thrive physically, socially, emotionally, mentally, and academically.
In Focus is excited to share our new K-12 student and educator well-being resources with you. Written for teachers by teachers, our curriculum is designed for all students through whole class instruction as well as small group and individual intervention.
On-Demand Coaching & Consulting
Engage in on-demand coaching and consulting aimed to build capacity and create conditions wherein students and adults can be their best selves, do their best work, and perform at their highest level.
K-12 Well-Being Curriculum
Build confidence and competence in your students and teachers. Our curriculum includes over 60 lessons with hands-on activities, topic-based reflection prompts, engaging discussions, videos, read-alouds, graphic organizers, and integrated deep learning opportunities.
Whole System Well-Being
Well-being ensures that all students and educators thrive physically, socially, emotionally, mentally, and academically.
In Focus is excited to share our new K-12 student and educator well-being resources with you. Written for teachers by teachers, our curriculum is designed for all students through whole class instruction as well as small group and individual intervention.
On-Demand Coaching & Consulting
Engage in on-demand coaching and consulting aimed to build capacity and create conditions wherein students and adults can be their best selves, do their best work, and perform at their highest level.
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Scope & Sequence
Our stand-alone lesson plans with flexible scope & sequence are the perfect resource for Tier 1, 2 and 3 instruction and intervention.
Our framework of well-being is based on several educational theories and reflects a synthesized approach to what we know about the conditions needed for educators and students to do their best work, the well-being competencies that educators and students must acquire through multi-tiered systems of support, and the culminating celebrations of educators and students thriving in any given system.
GRADE LEVEL SAMPLES
Our PreK-12 student curriculum was written by teachers, administrators, and service providers. Aligned with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, our student curriculum helps students acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for physical, social, emotional, mental, and academic well-being.
Our standards-based lessons include hands-on activities, topic- based reflection prompts, engaging discussions, interactive graphic organizers, and integrated deep learning opportunities for all students.
The In Focus PreK-12 curriculum features
- free-standing lessons specifically and explicitly designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for student success
- teaching practices designed to create optimal conditions for students to thrive
strategies that promote reflection by students and build positive and supportive relationships among teachers, students, and families - lesson activities that are integrated with academic core standards.
Samples
in focus Parent Guides
In today’s world, the opportunities to partner with parents are needed more than ever! Our parent curriculum supports the adults in your students’ lives to do just that. The purpose of our curriculum is to:
- Provide transparency to the curriculum and increase trust.
- Partner with parents in teaching well-being skills and competencies.
- Provide resources to parents to improve their own well-being.
- Extend the learning into the home environment, supporting parents in their important role.
In focus REFLECTION APP
The In Focus reflection APP provides an online platform for students and teachers to reflect and respond to topic specific prompts.
Aligned with our scope and sequence, each lesson/topic has 4-5 prompts ranging from multiple choice, scale, and open-ended questions. Teachers and administrators can also customize and add context specific prompts and questions.
Student responses provide real time data for teachers and service providers. Teacher responses provide real time data for administrators. Data is collected and used as pre/post assessments that inform instruction as well as provide longitudinal data regarding student and teacher well-being.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In Focus provides both digital and face-to-face platforms for professional development training opportunities. All sessions can be customized to a 1- hour, 2-hour, 4-hour, or multi-day training. Our training
- reflects research-based best practice strategies that teachers can incorporate into their own classrooms
- provides hands-on, engaging opportunities for teachers to reflect, collaborate, and experience our curriculum
- is customized to your teachers’ needs and learning objectives
- builds long-term relationships, ownership, and accountability through a structured approach.
