Pathways to Empower: Grade K Creating a Healthy Me Facilitator Guide + 1 Year License

The Pathways to Empower  elementary collection of sequential teacher resources begins with an engaging look at neuroscience, helping students build a strong understanding of how their brains work. That knowledge then comes to life through lessons on social relationships and the four key parts of mental health literacy. Each grade-level resource offers evidence-based strategies to strengthen resilience, encourage connection, and promote positive mental health in a fun and meaningful way.

Kindergarten: Creating a Healthy Me

The first goal of mental health literacy is understanding how to foster and maintain positive mental health. We begin this with young children by teaching them the tools of a healthy brain! Students will learn about the ant, one of the four characters we use to explain different functions of the brain. Exploring the ant and its tools gives them the foundation for understanding what they need to have in place to keep their brains (and bodies) healthy!

The curriculum provides a comprehensive learning experience and includes four modules:

• Neuroscience 101 introduces the developmental stages of the brain and the functions and systems at work.
• The Resilient Mindset Model^TM explains how the brain naturally responds to challenges, so you can use challenges as opportunities to build resilience and form common nonjudgmental language to better your mindset.
• Brain-Based Relationships applies all the science, frameworks, and strategies learned in the first two modules to your interactions with others.
• Mental Health Literacy covers the four goals of mental health literacy through the lens of neuroscience.

Included in this purchase is a printed Facilitator Guide and a 1 year license to the Teacher materials on our digital platform, Flourish. The printed student workbook is sold separately.