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Fly Five is a research-based, standards-aligned kindergarten through eighth grade curriculum designed to teach essential life skills. With curriculum and training, Fly Five enhances student well-being, strengthens positive behavior, and supports academic achievement.
Fly Five provides:
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The Fly Five curriculum is standards aligned, with competencies and developmentally appropriate skills that students can practice in and out of school. The C.A.R.E.S. competencies guide educators in creating actionable learning opportunities that prepare every student for academic and behavioral success. Our standards are divided into five C.A.R.E.S. competencies: cooperation, assertiveness, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
The Fly Five C.A.R.E.S. competencies are CASEL aligned. CASEL is a trusted source of knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning. CASEL seeks to help make evidence-based curriculum an integral part of education from preschool through high school. Explore our CASEL-aligned C.A.R.E.S. competencies and standards below!
The components of the Fly Five curriculum bridge the achievement gap and empower every student to reach their full potential. In order to help bring your educational vision to life, our components are intentionally designed to:
The Mindful Student® curriculum can be used to embed instruction in identifying and managing emotions and emotional responses throughout the day.
The Fly Five curriculum offers a wide variety of dynamic, engaging materials that can be adapted to meet the unique needs of each and every classroom and school community.
Ongoing curriculum implementation support for teachers through the Fly Five Implementation Support Package.
The The School-to-Home Connections (SHC) are designed to support parent or caregiver engagement, continue the development of life skills at home, and connect to what students are learning at school.
“Fly Five has really increased how we all look out for each other and can problem-solve by ourselves.” Serena, Fly Five fifth grader
In this short video, hear from Fly Five students, as they describe their Fly Five learning experiences and what social and emotional learning has offered them.
The Fly Five Success Stories highlight the real-world experiences of Fly Five practitioners who are implementing the curriculum to address challenges in the field. In our first Success Story, Solving the Four Square Conflict, we follow two Fly Five educators, Ina and Laura, as they turn a popular game of Four Square into an opportunity to put their students’ readiness into action.
Watch this video to see how Fly Five resolves conflict resolutions!
By using the Fly Five conflict-resolution steps and vocabulary, their students were able to practice and build assertiveness skills such as seeking help and problem-solving. Deepening their competence, students in Ina and Laura’s classroom wrote a pledge dedicated to making four square fairer for all players.
“We went around in a circle talking about four square and how they feel six weeks after conflict resolution lessons…and they feel like it’s gotten better! Some have even said they walk by it and it doesn’t seem as stressful.” Ina Pannell-St. Surin
In this Fly Five fifth-grade lesson demo, we follow Fly Five educator Ina Pannell-St. Surin, as she implements a lesson on assertiveness, where learners practice the aligned standard “Expressing Strong Emotions and Opinions Effectively.”
Watch as Ina utilizes the Fly Five curriculum to introduce new content, model effective strategies, and facilitate learning activities to promote student understanding and exploration of the standard.
Our curriculum is designed to support the Fly Five Theory of Change, which targets positive outcomes for teachers, students, and families alike. By supporting the development of student mindsets and well-being, educational stakeholders can improve behaviors and academic performance in their classrooms.
In a recent study, we examined the effectiveness of the Fly Five curriculum in three international schools. Data highlighted social skills and emotional regulation improvement, increased student engagement, and a sense of school belonging, among other positive outcomes. This research is part of an ongoing study exploring how Fly Five builds students' readiness and competence, which leads to positive behavioral and academic outcomes. Check out the details of the study below.
Additional products for social, emotional, and academic skill development with
The Mindful Student, Avenue A, and School to Home Connection!
The Mindful Student is a school-based mindfulness program designed to support proactive discipline and help students build skills of self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-discipline. Each grade-level set includes 20 lesson cards that provide mindfulness tools and strategies and align with the C.A.R.E.S. competencies and standards.
The Adventures of the Center City Kids is a collection of 20 read-aloud books that support the development of social, emotional, and literacy skills. Share the Adventure Series in the classroom or at home to enhance social skills and emotional regulation, celebrate family, and amplify cultural diversity. Through intentional literacy integration and supplemental lessons, the Adventure Series promotes students’ academic success.
Fly Five’s School-to-Home Connection (SHC) Toolkit builds a bridge between school and home and promotes family engagement. Each toolkit contains a newsletter with collaborative activities aligned with the week’s lesson. These activities encourage students and families to extend classroom learning and continue building skills at home and in their community, together.