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PATHS® Curriculum
Program Overview
The PATHS® program is a comprehensive, evidence-backed SEL curriculum proven effective worldwide. It aligns with CASEL’s 5 competency framework for effective K-5 SEL instruction, with a convenient grade-level format that makes implementation easy and effective. The PATHS® program provides teachers and counselors with a systematic developmental approach for enhancing children's social and emotional understanding and academic competence. Implementing PATHS® helps students build the skills they need to understand and manage their emotions, leads to improved academic outcomes, and reduces disruptions in the classroom, resulting in smoother classroom management, improved teacher morale, and educational effectiveness.
The PATHS® Curriculum:
Is people-centric: The teacher leads units and activities, fully integrating the program into the ongoing curriculum.
Increases children's self-control
Increases children's ability to get along with others by improving friendship skills (sharing, caring, and other social skills)
Enhances children's self-esteem, self-confidence, and ability to give and receive compliments
To increase children's understanding and communication of the vocabulary of emotions (verbal mediation and dialoguing about feelings with others)
Helps children recognize and understand how one's behavior affects others.
Increases children's understanding and use of logical reasoning and problem-solving vocabulary
Improves children's knowledge of, and skill in, the steps of social problem solving
Strongly correlates to the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (PATHS® Preschool/Kindergarten) and is positively evaluated for use in Head Start and other preschool classrooms
Helps meet Head Start's social and emotional development goals for school readiness
Addresses the Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, and Instructional Support domains of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) tool
Is a CASEL SELect and Blueprints Certified Promising program
Format and Delivery
Download a list of lessons indexed by topic and grade level.
Visit the overview page to learn more about each grade level.