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SocialSmarts™ is a series of courses that addresses the need for improved social skills in our young people. Created by The PoliteChild, the SocialSmarts program offers age-specific lessons for students from toddlers to teens that teaches not only appropriate and successful behaviors, but also works to build and reinforce the underlying motivations and foundations for those behaviors. SocialSmarts is designed to have students understand how they should behave, but even more importantly, why it’s important to behave that way, grounding students in such important virtues as respect, compassion, trustworthiness, integrity and more.
The SocialSmarts social skills curriculum consists of the following three courses, which can be offered singly or in combination. When all three are implemented in sequence, they can span a typical school-year's worth of instruction.
Schools that have implemented the SocialSmarts program have seen benefits that include:
- 80% decreases in major disciplinary action over prior year
- Bullying is virtually eliminated, not just reduced
- Increased student time-on-task by up to 30-40% as reported by the schools
- Decreased student absenteeism
- Improved student, teacher, and administrative staff morale
- Improvements in the learning environment; students overwhelmingly report they feel “safe” at their schools
- Improvements in family dynamics and awareness of the importance of good social skills
- Significant improvement in overall academic test scores after even only one year on our program -- 10-13% and more!
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Even more exciting is our findings that show not only a consistent increase in those test scores in all our schools, but that these increases continue year after year while the school has our programs in place!
Check out our online calculator or contact us to see how we can help your school can have better behaved students, that are ready and eager to learn, happier teachers, and boost your academic results like never before!
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