Agenda Item
a. Renewal: ReThinkEd., Inc. (Not to Exceed $99,654)
Summary: Presented by: Kishia K. Towns, Ph.D., Chief of Wrap Around Services, Division of Wrap Around Services
Request: It is requested that the DeKalb County Board of Education approve the renewal to purchase RethinkEd, Inc. High School Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum for an amount not to exceed $99,654.
Why: The DeKalb County School District requires a robust and comprehensive social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum for high school students, which can also support the In-School Suspension (ISS) Intervention Program. The RethinkEd Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Solution equips students with critical SEL skills essential for success in school and life.
Details: The RethinkEd SEL Curriculum for high schools is aligned with the DeKalb County School District's (DCSD) Student Code of Conduct and Culture and Climate Strategic Plan Goals. In DCSD, our goal is to empower students to grow emotionally, socially, and academically by providing targeted interventions and facilitating the development of essential life skills. Through this program, students will have the opportunity to demonstrate a positive change in attitude and behavior with the support of educators providing targeted interventions and employing various approaches to address disciplinary incidents. We strive to transform challenges into opportunities for personal growth and successfully reintegrate high school students into the school community with renewed confidence and resilience.
Implementation of the high school RethinkEd SEL Program will help the district achieve the following goals:
Decrease instruction time loss.
Decrease out-of-school (OSS) for students.
Decrease in-school suspension (ISS) for students.
Improve students’ social emotional skills.
Improve student academic and behavior outcomes.
Decrease behavior referrals/suspensions.
Increase the fidelity of behavior intervention support practices.
Improve student attendance rates.
Financial impact: The annual cost to renew the RethinkEd Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum shall not exceed $99,654 and will be paid from Purchased Prof/Tech Services account code: 100.2100.530000.00011.7560.9990.8010.090.0000.
Contact: Kishia K. Towns, Ph.D., Chief of Wrap Around Services, Division of Wrap Around Services, 678.676.1913
Dr. Darnell Logan, Director of Student Relations, Division of Wrap Around Services, 770. 656.0185
Ms. Brandy Woolridge, PBIS Coordinator II, Wrap Around Services, Division of Wrap Around Services, 678. 218.2154
Effective: Upon Board Approval
Status: Approved by the Office of Legal Affairs
Mental Health
Lessons and Objectives
Together We Power Potential | www.rethinked.com
RethinkEd Mental Health
The RethinkEd Mental Health program is a research and web-based K-12 solution that takes
a proactive approach to reducing the impact of mental health issues, by providing training and
education for adults and students to develop awareness, recognize signs, offer support, and
seek help for themselves and others.
The program includes a professional learning suite developed by a team of
Mental Health experts, covering 11 important mental health topics. It includes
Topics on-demand, video-based, training modules designed to support and
improve social and emotional well-being of all adult learners and increase
Trauma awareness and understanding of preventative measures around key
mental health topics.
Substance Use The comprehensive web-based, K-12 curriculum for students includes 182
Disorders grade-level lessons, encompassing 11 mental health topics. Each lesson
includes an engaging video that addresses the general objectives, learning
Reducing the Risk of
activities that encourage discussion, critical thinking, and application of
Suicide
the protective strategies, as well as time for personal reflection. Teacher
and Student Resources provide key information designed to scaffold the
Human Trafficking
instruction, making the learning accessible for all students. The lessons
provide supports for implementing instruction in virtual or physical
Anxiety learning environments.
Professional Learning
Depression • Support educators, school staff, families, and communities with
scalable training.
• Engage with videos and extended learning activities.
Preventing
Violence • Implement strategies to increase community-wide awareness and
support of mental health issues.
• Utilize resources and strategies for identification, prevention &
Mental Wellness support.
Healthy Identities Student Curriculum
• Teach students to support peers struggling with mental health
challenges.
Online Safety
• Engage with videos, discussion questions, learning activities, and
instructional materials included in K-12 grade level lessons.
Kindness to • Prepare students with strategies to improve their mental health and
Animals
wellness.
• Empower students to seek help for themselves and others when
necessary.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Trauma
The Trauma lessons include four lessons per grade level to help teachers and students navigate the emotions
and stress that may follow a traumatic collective event such as a pandemic, natural disaster, violence on a school
campus or in the community, etc. The lessons are designed to help students identify and express their emotions,
manage their emotions, access a support system, and develop resilience to move beyond the traumatic event.
Grade Topic Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify, accept, and
K Emotions How Are You? express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
K Stress Management Take a Breath for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection
K Support Systems You Belong
and support, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
K Resilience Get Your Bounce Back! for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
1 Emotions All Emotions Are Okay! express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
1 Stress Management I Can Feel Better for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
1 Support Systems Who Can Help?
support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
1 Resilience How Can You Bounce Back? for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Trauma
Grade Topic Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify, accept, and
2 Emotions How Do You Feel? express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
2 Stress Management Take Care of Yourself for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
2 Support Systems Thank You! support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
2 Resilience Can’t Stop Me Now for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
3 Emotions Colors of Emotions express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
3 Stress Management Breathe Deep for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
3 Support Systems My Connections
support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
3 Resilience Watch Your Words for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
4 Emotions E-Motions! express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
Change a Feeling, Thought, or
4 Stress Management
Behavior
for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
4 Support Systems Connect 4 support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
4 Resilience Something Out of Nothing for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Trauma
Grade Lesson Title Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify, accept, and
5 Emotions Emotion Words express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
5 Stress Management Feel CALM for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
5 Support Systems Who Ya Gonna Call? support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
5 Resilience Just Maybe for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
6 Emotions All My Emotions express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
6 Stress Management Calm Your Body for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
6 Support Systems Who’s Your Who?
support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
6 Resilience Facing My Challenges for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
7 Emotions Gauging My Emotions express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
7 Stress Management Calming Breaths for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
7 Support Systems Picture My Needs support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
7 Resilience Beautiful Beyond for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Trauma
Grade Lesson Title Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify, accept, and
8 Emotions Music and Emotions express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
8 Stress Management What Can You Do? for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
8 Support Systems Make the Connection
support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
8 Resilience Resilience: Action! for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
9 Emotions Patterns of Emotion express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
9 Stress Management Underlying Feelings for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
9 Support Systems Making Connections support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
9 Resilience Trust and Resilience for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
10 Emotions More Than a Word express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
10 Stress Management Just Breathe for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
10 Support Systems Speed Connecting support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
10 Resilience Acting with Resilience for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Trauma
Grade Topic Lesson Titles Objective
Students will identify, accept, and
11 Emotions My Emotions, My Body express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
11 Stress Management Calming Moves for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
11 Support Systems Life After Trauma
support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
11 Resilience Hope Is… for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
Students will identify, accept, and
12 Emotions Emotions in Music express their emotions, following a
traumatic event.
Students will learn strategies
12 Stress Management Take Charge for managing their emotions,
following a traumatic event.
Students will recognize the
importance of connection and
12 Support Systems Support Snapshots
support, following a traumatic
event.
Students will learn strategies
12 Resilience Build Your Resilience for being resilient, following a
traumatic event.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Substance Use Disorders
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will identify what the body needs to be healthy.
Students will understand safe and unsafe substances.
Students will understand how substances affect the brain and body.
Students will learn protective strategies for reducing their risks of developing a substance use disorder.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify what they need to be healthy and the
K My Healthy Needs
people who provide what they need.
Students will identify safe and unsafe substances and
1 Safe and Unsafe Substances
consequences for misusing substances.
Students will identify safe ways to use medicine and develop
2 Using Medicine Safely
self-control to make good decisions.
3 My Healthy Brain Students will develop strategies to keep their brains healthy.
Students will identify the messages they receive about
4 My Healthy Choices substance use and identify positive interests and activities.
Students will identify reasons teens might try drugs and
5 My Healthy Plan develop a plan to reduce their risk of developing a substance
use disorder.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Substance Use Disorders
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will understand the risks for teens using illegal substances such as alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs.
Students will identify the signs and symptoms that a person may have a substance use disorder.
Students will identify protective strategies that may decrease the risk of developing substance use disorders.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will develop the protective strategy of identifying
6 Identifying Positive Activities and engaging in positive activities and interests and learn
about the risks of alcohol use.
Identifying Positive Adult Students will develop the protective strategy of identifying
7 Relationships
and building positive relationships with adults and learn
about the risks of vaping and smoking cigarettes.
Students will develop the protective strategy for managing
8 Managing Peer Pressure
peer pressure and learn about the risks of marijuana use.
Students will develop the protective strategy of self-
9 Knowing Ourselves
awareness and learn about the risks of using amphetamines.
Students will develop the protective strategy of
communication skills to advocate for themselves and their
10 Practicing Communication decisions and learn about the risks of opioid misuse and
abuse.
Students will evaluate protective strategies of making
11 Setting Healthy Goals healthy decisions and setting goals for a healthy lifestyle and
learn the risk factors of hallucinogens.
Students will evaluate protective strategies to reduce their
12 Evaluating Protective Strategies
risk of developing substance addictions.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Reducing the Risk of Suicide
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will understand hope as the belief that things will get better.
Students will ask for help when a situation or their emotions feel overwhelming.
Students will develop protective strategies to increase their hope and reduce their vulnerability to suicidal ideation.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify situations that can make them sad and
K Feeling Hopeful
ways to grow their hope.
Students will identify that feelings change and develop ways
1 Hopeful Changes
to grow their hope when they are feeling sad.
Students will identify people in their lives who help them
2 Hopeful Helpers
grow their hope.
Students will use stories of hope to develop self-efficacy to
3 Stories of Hope
grow their hope.
Students will set a goal to improve an uncomfortable
4 Hopeful Goals situation.
Students will grow their hope by helping others grow their
5 Spreading Hope
hope.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Reducing the Risk of Suicide
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will identify warning signs for themselves or someone else who may be having thoughts of suicide.
Students will understand the importance of seeking help if they or someone else is having thoughts of suicide.
Students will identify resources to help themselves or someone else who may be having thoughts of suicide.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will become aware of suicide statistics among teens
6 Suicide Facts
and protective strategies for reducing the risk of suicide.
Students will learn facts about suicide and the resources
7 Suicide: Myth Busters
available to reduce the risk of suicide.
Students will become aware of risk factors for suicide and
8 Suicide: Risk Factors
protective strategies for developing resiliency.
Students will become aware of the risk factors for suicide
9 Risk Factors for Suicide
and protective strategies, including empathy and inclusion.
Students will identify suicide warning signs and ways to help
10 Suicide: Warning Signs a peer who may have suicidal thoughts.
Students will identify stigmas about suicide and strategies
11 Suicide Stigmas for reducing the stigma by understanding facts about
suicide.
Students will evaluate risk factors and protective strategies
12 Evaluating Protective Strategies
to reduce the risk of suicide.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Human Trafficking
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will understand their right to be safe and protected by adults. Students
will recognize safe and unsafe touch and/or situations involving abuse. Students
will learn strategies they can use when they feel unsafe.
Students will learn protective strategies to reduce their vulnerability.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify safe and unsafe touch and the adults
K Safe and Unsafe Touch
who help them feel safe.
Students will recognize safe and unsafe touch by identifying
1 Feeling Safe
emotions in their bodies.
Students will develop self-advocacy skills to take action when
2 Feeling Unsafe?
they feel unsafe.
Students will distinguish between safe, unsafe, and
3 Safe Boundaries
unwanted touch and identify their own boundaries.
Students will identify their personal boundaries and practice
4 Communicating Boundaries strategies to communicate their boundaries.
Students will identify their personal boundaries and respect
5 Our Boundaries
the boundaries of others.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Human Trafficking
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will understand what human trafficking is and that it is a violation of human rights.
Students will identify factors that put youth at risk for being trafficked.
Students will identify signs that someone may be being trafficked.
Students will develop protective strategies for reducing the risk of being trafficked, as well as empathy to show
understanding to others.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify tactics that traffickers use to exploit
6 Traffickers’ Tactics Online young people online and identify the safeguards their
support system of adults has for keeping them safe.
Human Trafficking: Rights and Students will identify human trafficking as a human rights
7 Laws
issue and a crime and practice advocating for the rights of
themselves and others.
Students will identify factors that put youth at risk for being
8 Risk Factors for Human Trafficking
trafficked and develop empathy for others.
Students will identify tactics traffickers use to exploit young
9 Recognizing Traffickers
people and evaluate their own boundaries.
Human Trafficking: Power and Students will understand how traffickers exert control over
10 survivors and develop their own sense of self worth.
Control
Students will identify the signs that someone may be being
11 Notice the Signs
trafficked and identify their own support systems.
Students will identify barriers that make it difficult to end
12 Ending Human Trafficking human trafficking and evaluate their responsibility for social
change.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Anxiety
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will identify fear and worry in their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
Students will identify situations that cause anxiety.
Students will develop protective strategies to manage anxious feelings.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify fear and worry in their feelings,
K Exploring Scared and Worried thoughts, and behaviors and safe adults who can help them
manage their fear and worry.
Students will identify situations that cause fear and worry
1 My Fears and Worries
and strategies for developing self-compassion.
Students will identify worry in their feelings, thoughts, and
2 Managing My Worries
behaviors and strategies for managing their worry.
Students will identify how anxiety affects the body and ways
3 Check In, Be Calm
to calm the body.
Students will identify situations that cause anxiety and
4 Challenge That Thought strategies for managing anxiety.
Students will identify signs that they or someone else may
5 Change It with Compassion have anxiety and learn strategies to show compassion to
themselves and others.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Anxiety
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will recognize signs and symptoms of anxiety in themselves and others.
Student will develop protective strategies to manage anxiety.
Students will identify resources available to manage their anxiety.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify signs of anxiety and learn strategies for
6 Breathe Through It managing anxiety.
Students will identify signs that they or someone else may be
7 Present and Compassionate feeling anxious and learn strategies for showing compassion
for themselves and others.
Students will identify negative thinking that may contribute
8 ICE Anxiety
to anxiety and strategies to challenge their negative thinking.
Students will identify situations that trigger anxiety and
9 Recognizing Anxiety
strategies for managing their anxiety.
Students will identify and counter stigma surrounding
10 Stop the Stigma of Anxiety anxiety and practice strategies for showing empathy to
others who may be experiencing anxiety.
Students will identify signs that they or someone else may
11 Cultivating Compassion have anxiety and learn strategies for showing compassion to
themselves and others.
Students will assess their own levels of anxiety and identify
12 Managing Anxiety
resources to help manage their anxiety.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Depression
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will identify sadness in their body, thoughts, and behaviors. Students
will identify situations that cause sadness for themselves and others. Students
will practice protective strategies to manage their sadness.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify sadness in their bodies and practice
K Boost Your Sad Feelings
ways to boost their feelings.
Students will identify sadness in their feelings, thoughts, and
1 Level Up With Love behaviors and think about things and people they love to
help them feel better.
Students will identify situations that cause sadness for
2 Level Up! themselves and others and strategies to help them feel
better.
I can identify sad feelings in myself and others and show
3 Identifying Sad Feelings
empathy to others.
I can identify the size of a problem that makes me sad and
4 Big or Small Problems the support I need.
I can identify what problems that might make me sad and
5 We’ve Got Options
strategies for managing my feelings.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Depression
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will recognize signs and symptoms of depression.
Students will develop protective strategies to manage uncomfortable emotions that may lead to depression.
Students will identify resources to support themselves or others who may be feeling depressed.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify negative thoughts that may lead to
6 Optimistic Options depression and learn strategies for being optimistic.
Students will identify signs and symptoms of depression and
7 Affirming My Worth develop a sense of their self-worth to manage uncomfort-
able emotions.
Students will identify negative thinking patterns that may
8 Compassionate Thoughts lead to depression and develop strategies for showing
compassion for themselves and others.
Students will identify how thoughts can affect a person’s
9 ICE Stinking Thinking emotional well-being and strategies for identifying and
challenging negative thoughts.
Students will identify the signs and symptoms of depression
10 Flip the Script and practice strategies to develop optimism.
Students will identify messages they hear about depression
11 Know Your Worth
and develop strategies to build their sense of self-worth.
Students will identify and challenge their negative thoughts
12 Sense of Purpose
and explore finding a purpose to improve their mood.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Preventing Violence
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will understand their right to feel safe and protected by adults.
Students will understand the difference between helpful and harmful behaviors and/or situations.
Students will develop protective strategies to reduce their vulnerability to be a survivor or perpetrator of violence.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify harmful behaviors and practice
K Choose Respect
strategies for being respectful.
Students will identify harmful behaviors and practice strate-
1 Work It Out
gies for managing conflict respectfully.
Students will recognize harmful behaviors and identify and
2 Helpful Boundaries
respect healthy boundaries.
Students will understand their right to feel safe and
3 Safety Needs protected and practice speaking up to get the help they
need.
Students will understand their right to feel safe and
4 My Safe Relationships protected through a sense of belonging in relationships.
Students will understand their right to be safe and protected
5 Respecting Boundaries
and set and respect healthy boundaries.
RethinkEd | Mental Health Lessons & Objectives
Mental Health Student Lessons
Preventing Violence
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will learn about different types of violence.
Students will understand the roots and dynamics of violence.
Students will develop protective strategies to reduce their vulnerability to perpetrating or surviving violence.
Students will develop empathy and consider actions they can take to prevent violence.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will understand the dynamics of family violence
6 Safe and Protected
and strategies for developing a healthy support system.
Students will identify and speak out against harassment and
7 Silencing Harassment
develop empathy for others.
Students will identify the roots of relationship violence and
8 Roots of Relationship Violence
strategies for challenging stereotypes.
Students will identify the dynamics of relationship violence
9 #HealthyRelationships
and strategies for developing healthy relationships.
Students will identify sexual violence and understand the
10 Consent Culture importance of asking for consent in healthy relationships.
Students will identify, analyze, and speak out against
11 Collective Violence collective violence and develop nonviolent strategies for
resolving conflict.
Students will analyze different types of violence in their
12 Take Action to Prevent Violence communities and consider actions they can take to prevent
violence.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Mental Wellness
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will learn what mental wellness is.
Students will learn how emotions can influence mental wellness.
Students will learn strategies to care for their mental wellness.
Students will develop awareness and empathy for themselves and others who may need help with their emotions.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify different emotions and what helps
K Feeling Happy
them feel happy.
Students will identify what helps them feel happy and learn
1 Happy Feelings
what helps others feel happy.
Students will identify ways to feel happy and ways to help
2 Spreading Happiness
others feel happy.
Students will identify a range of emotions and ways to care
3 My Emotion Superpowers
for their emotions.
Students will practice strategies for talking to someone
4 Caring for My Emotions about big emotions and identify ways to care for their
emotions.
Students will identify strategies for caring for their emotions
5 Empathy for Emotions
and ways to show empathy for others.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Mental Wellness
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will learn what mental wellness is.
Students will learn how emotional, social, and physical factors can influence mental wellness.
Students will learn protective strategies for caring for their mental wellness.
Students will develop awareness and empathy for themselves and others who may need support to manage their
mental wellness.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will recognize the connection between physical
6 Physical and Mental Wellness and emotional wellness and develop a plan to support their
mental wellness.
Students will identify a connection between their feelings,
7 Change It Up
thoughts, and behaviors and their mental wellness.
Students will evaluate how support systems can help them
8 Wellness Is Social
care for their mental wellness.
Students will identify the factors that influence mental
9 Mental Wellness Factors
wellness and evaluate their own mental wellness.
Students will research mental wellness strategies and make
10 Mental Wellness Supports a mental wellness plan.
Students will identify the social factors that influence mental
11 Social Factors of Mental Wellness wellness and take action to support the mental wellness of
themselves and others.
Students will evaluate how policy can support mental
12 Mental Wellness Policies
wellness and take action to promote mental wellness for all.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Healthy Identities
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will develop a positive understanding of their personal identities.
Students will identify and appreciate social groups to which they belong.
Students will develop an appreciation for the unique identities of others.
Students will develop protective strategies to build a healthy self-identity.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify and celebrate their uniqueness and the
K We Are Unique
uniqueness of others.
Students will identify and celebrate their interests and the
1 My Unique Interests
interests of others.
Students will celebrate their families and the families of
2 My Family and Me
others.
Students will share stories about themselves and celebrate
3 Our Stories
the stories of others.
Students will identify and celebrate the strengths they bring
4 My Unique Strengths to their communities and explore ways to make a difference.
Students will recognize where their values come from and
5 Respecting Values
respect the values of others.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Healthy Identities
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will develop a positive understanding of their personal identities.
Students will identify and appreciate their social identities.
Students will analyze how their identities shape their experiences in the world. Students
will develop an appreciation for the unique identities and experiences of other.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify, analyze, and appreciate their identities
6 Appreciating Identity
and the identities of others.
Students will identify, analyze, and appreciate their social
7 Pieces of Me
identities and the social identities of others.
Students will identify, analyze, and appreciate their identities
8 Impacts of Identity
and the identities of others.
Students will identify the benefits and challenges of their
9 Identity Inventory
social identities.
Students will notice and reflect on messages about their
10 Identity Messages personal and social identities.
11 Identity in Context Students will analyze the context around their identities.
Students will evaluate how their identities impact their
12 Identity Intersections
experiences in the world and vice versa.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Online Safety
General Objectives for Grades K-5
Students will understand guidelines for being safe online.
Students will balance time and activities online and off.
Students will show respect and empathy for others online.
Students will develop strategies for identifying the accuracy and validity of digital media.
Students will use technology to solve problems and help others.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will identify the safe adults to help them online and
K I Can Unplug recognize the importance of balancing their time on and off
digital devices.
1 I Can Be Kind Online Students will develop strategies to be safe and kind online.
Students will develop strategies to stay safe online and find
2 I Can Find It Online
information, solutions, and ways to help others online.
Students will develop strategies to stay safe online and
3 Time to Unplug
unplug from online activities.
Students will develop strategies to stay safe online and be
4 Be Kind Online kind online.
Students will develop strategies to stay safe online and
5 Be AWARE Online
identify the validity and accuracy of information online.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Online Safety
General Objectives for Grades 6-12
Students will protect themselves and others online.
Students will be respectful and show empathy to others online.
Students will balance time and activities online and off.
Students will evaluate the accuracy and validity of digital media.
Students will use technology to make a positive difference.
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will develop strategies to protect themselves and
6 Safe and Respectful Online
others online and be respectful online.
Students will develop strategies to protect themselves and
7 Safe and AWARE Online others online and evaluate the accuracy and validity of digital
media.
Students will develop strategies to protect themselves and
8 Safe and Connected Online others online and use technology to address a problem on
campus.
Students will develop strategies to protect themselves and
9 Balancing Screen Time
others online and evaluate their screen time.
Students will develop strategies to protect themselves and
10 Online Respect others online and engage respectfully online.
Students will develop strategies to protect themselves and
11 Check the Source others online and evaluate the accuracy and validity of digital
media.
Students will develop strategies to protect themselves and
12 Solve the Problem Online others online and use technology to address a problem in
their community.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Kindness to Animals
For Grades K-5
Grade Lesson Title Objective
K Animals Have Needs Too Students will recognize that animals have needs.
1 Animals Have Feelings Too Students will recognize the ways animals show their feelings.
2 Animals Have Boundaries Too Students will recognize that animals have boundaries.
3 Showing Kindness to Animals Students will identify ways to treat animals with kindness.
Students will identify animals’ needs and ways to care for
4 Caring for Animals animals.
Students will identify animals’ emotions and some ways to
5 Empathy for Animals
show empathy to animals.
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Mental Health Student Lessons
Kindness to Animals
For Grades 6-12
Grade Lesson Title Objective
Students will observe animals to learn how they use social
6 Animal Observations
and emotional skills to survive and thrive.
Students will identify the interconnectedness between hu-
7 Connected to Animals
mans and animals.
Students will identify how animals can support a person’s
8 Animals’ Emotional Support
emotional needs.
Students will identify endangered animals and take action to
9 Save the Animals
help.
Students will understand the importance of humane
10 Humane Treatment of Animals treatment of animals.
Students will identify how culture influences their beliefs and
11 Animals and Culture
values about kindness to animals.
Students will explore animal protection topics and ways to
12 Protecting Animals
protect animals.
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