Sequential and Engaging SEL Curriculum for Middle & High School Students

Ori’s Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curricula for Middle School and High School empower your teachers to deliver essential social and emotional skill instruction with confidence. Our Universal Design for Learning (UDL) aligned SEL curriculum fosters curiosity, instills perseverance, and empowers students to thrive in school and beyond.

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SEL Curriculum Overview

Spiral Curriculum Design

Teach and reinforce social emotional skills, building upon them at each grade level. Revisit concepts to deepen understanding without the boring repetition.

Student-centered SEL lessons

Empower your teachers with social and emotional learning materials that engage Gen-Z students with its use of Canva, videos they love, interactive activities, and a focus on student voice/interests.

UDL-based social emotional program

UDL enhances our social and emotional learning solution for all students while also promoting access for EL students, students with disabilities, and diverse learners.

Sample SEL Lessons

Social-Emotional Learning Courses

CASEL-aligned courses

Ori’s SEL solution includes 5 units per grade. Each unit is dedicated to one of the 5 CASEL Competencies supported by research in the field of Social-Emotional Learning.

Discovering self-awareness

In Unit 1, students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to develop a deeper understanding of themselves, pairing self-determination theory with growth mindset, the belief that our abilities are not fixed, but instead malleable, to promote academic and personal success.

This unit also supports the exploration of identities, outlooks, interests, and mindsets.

Developing self-management

Unit 2 focuses on emotion recognition and identifying needs. Students learn to see emotions as helpful indicators and learn to choose flexible emotion regulation strategies to meet their needs. They are also encouraged to seek support from others and learn strategies to relieve the uncomfortable physical effects of emotions.

Students learn how to use stress to their advantage while also learning ways to manage their time, prioritize their schedules,
and form habits that help prevent emotional dysregulation.

Building social awareness

Unit 3, teaches students what empathy is and how to access it through perspective-taking. Students then learn ways to show compassion towards others in ways that are helpful by anticipating the needs of others and asking when they aren’t sure how to help. This unit also provides students with skills they can use when they are unable to connect with others through empathy, like seeking to understand and agreeing to disagree. Unit 3, teaches students what empathy is and how to access it through perspective-taking. Students then learn ways to show compassion towards others in ways that are helpful by anticipating the needs of others and asking when they aren’t sure how to help. This unit also provides students with skills they can use when they are unable to connect with others through empathy, like seeking to understand and agreeing to disagree.

Growing healthy relationships

Unit 4 helps students identify and recognize the healthy and unhealthy relationships in their lives while providing tools to build new friendships and strengthen existing ones. Students also learn to have gratitude and consider the positive impact of relationships that have ended, as well as the impact they have on others.

Responsible decision-making

Unit 5 provides students with tools to prevent and handle peer pressure as well as think through the possible outcomes of decisions before making them. Students learn to consider immediate as well as long-term outcomes of decisions as well as who could be impacted by them. Students learn to recognize the positive impacts of their peers and how they can position themselves as role models. In addition, students learn ways to make reparations after making mistakes and learn a step-by-step process to help solve problems.

Comprehensive and ready-to-teach lessons

5 CASEL-aligned units per grade
Lesson guides to teach from a script or prompts
Multiple Delivery Modes and Flexible Lesson Lengths

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