Program
CKCC is an evidence based intervention that aligns with the DESSA (Devereux Student Strengths Assessment), a standardized social-emotional assessment measure of the Devereux Center for Resilient Children. Training for both editions (early childhood and K-5) is included in USB format in each package. Additional training, on site or on line, is available on a contractual basis.
CKCC for Pre-K/Early Childhood
K-5 Social-Emotional Classroom Curriculum
Reflective Group Supervision for Schools
Samples of Lessons
CKCC for Early Childhood
CKCC for Early Childhood is a literacy-based curriculum centering on the “Adventures of the Garden Friends” (metaphorical characters enrolled in the “Garden School”). It is organized into five units according to the SEL Common Core Standards for Pre-Kindergarten. At the heart of the curriculum are thirty beautifully illustrated picture books and puppets that are used to act out and creatively extend the stories. Training, a teacher’s guide, and “feelings cards” are included as well. Send-home password protected audio books are also a part of the package, enabling families to practice the skills taught in their homes. Because CKCC for Early Childhood uses the same “Garden Friends” characters as Grades K and 1, it aims to facilitate a seamless transition to kindergarten.
Sample pages from one of the 30 early childhood read aloud stories included with CKCC for Early Childhood.
K-5 Social-Emotional Classroom Curriculum
Overview
CKCC’s newly updated curriculum integrates time-honored teaching strategies with current best-practice instructional techniques. The developmentally-organized curriculum includes creative tools for engaging students as well as extension activities to help reinforce and generalize learning across multiple contexts.
CKCC is based upon the notion that, for student success, the traditional “3 R’s”—‘Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic, need to be extended to include 5 additional “R’s,” as illustrated below. CKCC’s “5 R’s” correspond to the five social-emotional competencies delineated by Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Each weekly lesson clearly states which of the “5 R’s” is being emphasized.
Unique Features
Teachers are especially delighted with the colorful PowerPoint presentations that accompany each lesson. In addition to these, CKCC’s updated K-5 curriculum includes the following distinctive features:
- Provides guidelines to enhance family-school collaboration
- Strengthens executive functioning as well as social-emotional skills
- Includes interactive home-school activities translated into Spanish with each lesson
- Aligns with Common Core Standards
- Helps students prepare to learn using mindfulness techniques before each lesson
- Provides ongoing support, coaching, and professional development
- Recommends school-wide activities with common themes across grade levels
- Is extremely user-friendly
- Clear directions for weekly lessons
- Available in print and electronic formats
- Guidelines to differentiate instruction
- Multiple engagement strategies to choose from in lesson planning
- Implementation manual included
Here’s a quick look at CKCC in action, along with what some educators have to say about the program:
Reflective Group Supervision for Schools
Reflective Group Supervision for Schools (RGS-S) emerged from our observation that educators and school mental health professionals frequently receive additional training, often in the area of student social-emotional development, but they may find it very challenging to integrate new information, make it “their own,” and use it to enhance their skills in working with students. RGS-S works to empower the adults charged with supporting children’s development to do just that. Using RGS-S,our trainers help school administrators, supervisors, mental health professionals, educators, and/or para-professionals to become more reflective about students and families while simultaneously contributing to a colleagial, supportive atmosphere among the people serving them.
How can families be involved? CKCC offers immediate ways to involve families that promote social-emotional competency building:
- Providing fun, interactive, culturally-sensitive social-emotional activities for children to do with family members
- Viewing the child as an ambassador between home and school who can play a key role in motivating parents to come to school
- Offering professional development on blocking blame
- Helping schools enhance communication between home and school
- Helping schools to define “family” broadly, including not only parents, but older siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and even unrelated “special adults” in the child’s life
How does CKCC help schools include parents and guardians who can’t come to school?
- Works with schools to design activities expressly for students and family members to do at home from the outset
- Encourages teachers to send notes to all families describing particular events in detail and suggesting specific home-based activities those who could not attend, so that they get a “taste” of the event
- Helps schools establish mechanisms for activities done at home to be represented at school
Samples of Lessons
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