Curricula

The Learning About Ourselves and Others unit will introduce students to key concepts, skills, and strategies as they navigate learning about and regulating feelings in community with others. Outcome: Students will learn about feelings in themselves and others.

The Exploring Feelings unit focuses on teaching students how to identify and understand the feelings they experience each and every day  (“tuning into feelings” in oneself and in others, considering others’ points of view, and demonstrating solidarity).

The Building Our Learning Community unit focuses on teaching students how to put what they have learned about empathy into the context of real relationships.Outcome: Students will use their empathy skills as they interact in community.

The Embracing Empathy unit will refine students’ knowledge as it relates to concepts, skills, and strategies for examining their own feelings, exploring the concept of growth mindset, and developing an understanding of perspective as they move toward a recognition of the importance of empathy in relationships.

The Celebrating Disability as Diversity unit will help students refine their knowledge around key concepts, skills, and strategies as they are explicitly introduced to disability and the assumptions surrounding it. 

The Valuing Our Diversity unit will develop or deepen students’ understanding of disability and the assumptions surrounding it. This learning will support and promote identity pride for disabled students and provide factual representation of disability for all. 

Co-authored by Storyteller, Kevin Kling, Everyone Has a Story will introduce students to key concepts, skills, and strategies to examine their identities, even, and especially, as they change over time. 

The Intro to Disability Studies unit takes a deep dive into disability history. Students will learn about disability as a form of human diversity, how to be an aspiring ally, and how to be an includer. 

The Challenging Stereotypes Through Literature unit delves into two literary genres. Through reading and comparative analysis, students will learn about disability, analyze narrator perspectives, debunk stereotypes, and determine the impact of word choices on others. 

Using the Engineering Design Process and applying what they learn about disability studies and ableism, students  take on a project that will make their school more inclusive from a physical, social or cultural standpoint.

Using the Engineering Design Process and applying what they learned about disability studies and ableism in school, students work together to l make the greater society more inclusive from a physical, social or cultural standpoint.

This series of lessons is based around a “Drop Everything and Read”(D.E.A.R.) format. It addresses emotional literacy and regulation, empathy skills, and celebrating disability as a form of human diversity. 

This program, designed for a setting structured around recreation and play, perfect fit for a camp setting, child care program, or a supplement to extracurricular activities. 

This unit provides essential instruction in empathy and friendship skills. Students explore how to manage their own emotions, how to demonstrate empathy toward others, and how to be a good friend to everyone. 

This unit explores the lives and careers of some of the influential disabled activists, artists, thinkers, and athletes whose stories are showcased in I Am Not A Label.