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The Our Path SEL Curricula

Our Path SEL has been carefully designed to bring SEL learning into Jewish schools, ensuring it aligns with our values while addressing modern challenges like relationship building use and stress management. With fun activities and practical guidance, Our Path aims to nurture not just knowledgeable students, but well-rounded and emotionally healthy individuals.
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Middle School Curriculum

Our Path Unit Outline 5th-8th Grade

5th Grade

Boys:
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: Safety

Girls:
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: Safety

6th Grade

Boys:
Unit 1: Emotions
Unit 2: Dealing With Risky Behavior
Unit 3: Conflict Resolution and Anger Management
Unit 4: Respect
Unit 5: Relationships
Unit 6: Making Good Judgments

Girls:
Unit 1: Emotions
Unit 2: My Changing Body
Unit 3: Respect​
Unit 4: Conflict Resolution and Anger Management
Unit 5: Dealing with Risky Behaviors
Unit 6: Relationships
Unit 7: Making Good Judgments

7th Grade

Boys:
Unit 1: Self-Awareness
Unit 2: Executive Functioning
Unit 3: Communication
Unit 4: My Changing Body
Unit 5: Friendship
Unit 6: Substances and Media
Unit 7: Gambling

Girls:
Unit 1: Self-Awareness
Unit 2: Executive Functioning
Unit 3: Communication
Unit 4: Creating a Positive Body Image
Unit 5: Friendship
Unit 6: Substances and Media
Unit 7: Values

8th Grade

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

Girls:
Unit 1: Stress
Unit 2: Digital World
Unit 3: Gambling
Unit 4: Feelings
Unit 5: Relationships
Unit 6: Peer Pressure
Unit 7: Transition to High School

Our Path SEL - Social Emotional Learning

Feelings
Session 1: Emotions

5th Grade

This lesson aims to help students understand and express their emotions. Students learn to identify different emotions, both comfortable and uncomfortable, and understand the connection between thoughts and feelings. The session involves interactive activities such as labeling emotions on faces, discussing feelings, completing worksheets, and storytelling exercises to illustrate how thoughts influence emotions. The lesson emphasizes the importance of expressing feelings and how this can help manage reactions and behaviors. Through guided discussions and hands-on activities, students are encouraged to recognize and articulate their feelings, promoting emotional awareness and healthy emotional expression.

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High School Curriculum

Our Path Unit Outline 9th-12th Grade

9th Grade

Boys:
Unit 1: Healthy Living
Unit 2: Executive Functioning
Unit 3: Relationship Building
Unit 4: Substances
Unit 5: Healthy Body Image
Unit 6: Handling Feelings and Stress

Girls:
Unit 1: Healthy Living
Unit 2: Executive Functioning
Unit 3: Healthy Body Image
Unit 4: Relationship Building
Unit 5: Substances
Unit 6: Handling Feelings and Stress

10th Grade

Boys:
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

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

11th Grade

Boys:
Unit 1: Taking Responsibility
Unit 2: Intimate Relationships
Unit 3: Risky Business
Unit 4: Balanced Mind and Body
Unit 5: Designing Your Destiny

Girls:
Unit 1: Taking Responsibility
Unit 2: Intimate Relationships
Unit 3: Balanced Body and Mind
Unit 4: Designing Your Destiny
Unit 5: Risky Business

12th Grade

Boys:
Unit 1: Rising Above the Influence
Unit 2: Life After High School
Unit 3: Waze
Unit 4: Anger Management
Unit 5: My Thoughts My Mood

Girls:
Unit 1: Happily Ever After
Unit 2: Life After High School
Unit 3: Rising Above the Influence
Unit 4: Anger Management
Unit 5: My Thoughts My Mood

Our Path SEL - Social Emotional Learning

Taking Responsibility
Session 2: Actions & Consequences

11th Grade

This lesson guides students to explore the relationship between responsibility and outcomes. Through interactive discussion, they consider how responsible actions often lead to positive results, while neglecting responsibilities can bring negative consequences. Using real-life scenarios, students reflect on moments when accountability shapes growth, and they practice recognizing the difference between making excuses and owning one’s choices. The lesson concludes with a conversation on how honesty and responsibility open the door to change, maturity, and stronger character.
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Teacher Resources

Our program was created to provide educators with the tools they need to effectively implement the Our Path SEL curriculum.

Curriculum Guides
and Lesson Plans

Every enrolled teacher can download detailed lessons, including handouts, worksheets, and activities.

Community and Support Network

Join our Teachers Corner forums to connect and discuss lesson plans with other educators.

Classroom Activities and Tools

Many sessions include interactive activities and tools to enhance our SEL program in your classroom.

Parental Engagement Resources

Templates of parent letters describing the sessions and key points presented to students are available for all units.

Crisis Response and Mental Health Support

Parental supplemental booklets have been created and shared after community crises.

Continuous Improvement and Feedback

Feedback surveys are provided to students and teachers, and lesson plans are improved based on new research.

Testimonials

On a regular basis, teachers from all over write in to tell us what they love about Our Path.

“I started the unit on Creating a Positive Body Image this week for 7th grade girls. I used the Our Path unit as a base and created my own lesson around it based on what I thought my students would respond well to. What happened after that has not happened very frequently in my years teaching middle school. They listened to and responded to each other. The girls were able to conduct themselves appropriately and respectfully while having a discussion about beauty (from within as well as external). This discussion led them to move into the next activity (defining body image) more smoothly and with more interest and enthusiasm. More than any other SEL program we have used in the past, the Our Path/Darcheinu lessons, combined with the “live” support of Avi and Shira, are proving to be an excellent resource. Thank you!
Mrs. Stephanie Samuels
Teacher
Maimonides, Boston MA
“Our Path SEL is a wonderful program that addresses the social-emotional needs of students in Jewish day schools in a way that is culturally relevant and responsive. It is a privilege to work with their team and the curriculum lends itself to rich discussions and workshops, with topics so critical in our return to school this year. Looking forward to continued collaboration.”
Carly Namdar, M.S.Ed CSP
Director of Middle School Guidance
HALB, NY
The Our Path SEL curriculum is the greatest prevention tool any school could wish for and use comfortably because the research done covers all aspects of youngsters´ lives - physically, emotionally, socially and other things that he or she will go through during their school years. Solid values run through all the content but do not in any manner interfere with anyones personal life or beliefs. The info is updated regularly. Today we work in 3 Jewish school and meet with over 800 students. Each school is a little different. We wish every school, every parent and every child could have this opportunity in their school.
Mrs. Yvonne Attie
COMSANA Organization
Panama City, Panama
The Our Path SEL curriculum is truly amazing! Everything you want to teach your students is in there. All you need to do is make it your own!
Ariella Gettenberg, Psy.D.
School Psychologist
Yeshiva University High School for Girls, NY
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