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Show your children the path and they will follow it.

Our Path was established to customize the successful Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum in order to best educate Jewish children and young adults.

With the acumen and experience of our curriculum writers—who live in and are members of the communities that Our Path serves—we are prepared to implement the Our Path curriculum to 260,000 Jewish students from 5th through 12th grade in nearly 800 schools, beginning September 2019. Our Path is a comprehensive 30 week program, implemented in only 35 minutes per week. While Our Path always focuses on positive values such as respect, honesty, and safety, the program is specifically designed to be customized to the needs of every school.

The curriculum incorporates a wide range of modern personal and social topics that teens struggle with today, including healthy internet use, decision making, self esteem, self-awareness, goal setting, body image, relationships, bullying, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, and more.

Each subject falls under three general areas that we help our children to master, so that they may succeed in life:

Personal skills

Social Skills

Resistance skills

We have the drive, tools, and passion to deploy Our Path and change the way our children grow up — smarter, safer, healthier, and happier.

It’s easier to get to where you’re going, when you’re given good directions.

Once we decided to put significant effort into educating and preparing our children for the risks and warning signs so that they are armed to avoid the dangers
that seem to lurk around every corner, we quickly realized that the answer would be found in SEL (Social Emotional Learning) Curricula. These curricula have been rigorously tested and statistically proven to reduce bullying and abuse and the surrounding issues while increasing self-esteem and positive social skills.

From Firefighting to Firepreventing

Over the past decade, our communities have been fighting the fires that threaten to destroy “children at risk”– children who are abused, bullied, self-harming, suffering from substance abuse, online addictions, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, or any other mental illness. The problem with fighting fires after they have erupted is that it is ineffective, expensive, and results in significant damage to that which is most precious to us- our children. The addition of single-focused curriculum models is a good first step, but it is not nearly enough. Something has to change. We need to put as much thought and effort into preventing fires as we do into containing and fighting them.

Students Completing SEL Programs

Are

more likely to report abuse and bullying after the first incidence

Are

more likely to prevent abuse and bullying.

Have a

lesser incidence of divorce.

Have Grade Point Averages

points higher than those who have not completed SEL programs.

For every $1 spent on SEL programming there are $11 saved in ancillary costs.

The right lesson at the right moment can change your life.

Boy’s Curriculum

5th Grade

Unit 1: Problem Solving
Unit 2: Feelings
Unit 3: Honesty
Unit 4: Friendship
Unit 5: Bullying
Unit 6: Cyber World
Unit 7: Organization
Unit 8: Staying Safe

6th Grade

Unit 1: Emotions
Unit 2: Dealing with Risky Behaviors
Unit 3: Conflict Resolution & Anger Management
Unit 4: Respect
Unit 5: Relationships
Unit 6: Making Good Judgments

7th Grade

Unit 1: Self-Awareness
Unit 2: My Changing Body
Unit 3: Substances and Media
Unit 4: Gambling
Unit 5: Communication
Unit 6: Friendship

8th Grade

Unit 1: Peer Pressure
Unit 2: Digital World
Unit 3: Creating Positive Body Image
Unit 4: Relationships
Unit 5: Feelings
Unit 6: Stress
Unit 7: Values
Unit 8: Transition to High School

9th Grade

Unit 1: Healthy Living
Unit 2: Relationship Building
Unit 3: Substances
Unit 4: Healthy Body Image
Unit 5: Handling Feelings & Stress

10th Grade

Unit 1: Life Pressures
Unit 2: Gambling
Unit 3: Staying Mentally Fit
Unit 4: Substances
Unit 5: Appropriate Internet Behaviors
Unit 6: Dealing with Anger

11th Grade

Unit 1: Responsibility
Unit 2: Healthy Relationships
Unit 3: Dangerous Behaviors
Unit 4: Balanced Body & Mind
Unit 5: Self-Awareness

12th Grade

Unit 1: Rising Above the Influence
Unit 2: Life After High School- Now What?
Unit 3: Waze: Navigating the Road from Dating to Marriage
Unit 4: Dealing with Anger

Our Children. Our Challenge. Our Path.

Girls Curriculum