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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. Skills and abilities they need not only now, to succeed in the school system, but also beyond school, as they transition to the workplace.
Schools that have implemented the SocialSmarts program have seen benefits that include:
- Significant improvement in overall academic test scores after even only one year on our program -- as much as 10-13% or more
- 80% decreases in major disciplinary action over prior year
- Bullying is virtually eliminated, not just reduced or managed
- 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
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.
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