Education
Choose Love for Schools™
First Character Social Emotional Development Program for Schools
Choose Love for Schools™ is a next-generation social and emotional learning (SEL) and character education program for Pre-K through 12th grades, designed to teach students, educators and staff how to choose love in any circumstance thereby creating a safer, more connected school culture.
Aligned with CASEL, Common Core and ASCA, Choose Love For Schools™ is also the first SEL program to fully incorporate state of the art Character Social Emotional Development (CSED) model standards, while also incorporating neuroscience and positive psychology to teach mindfulness, character, and emotional intelligence. These essential life skills and tools make students better learners, more desirable employees and happier, healthier, human beings.
Award-winning Stand-Alone Unit Designed To Support Educators and Students with Post-COVID Trauma and Learning Recovery
We know that, before any other learning can be effective, students and educators need to feel safe, a sense of belonging, cared for, and loved.
This Pre-K through 12th grade stand-alone unit can serve as a precursor to the full year Choose Love For Schools™ program, and was designed to provide back-to-school support in 3 to 6 lessons.
Areas covered include:
- post traumatic growth
- growth mindset
- self awareness
- self regulation
- mindfulness
Choosing Love in Our Brave New World is a 2023 Anthem Award winner.
Choose Love CARES
EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOPS
Elevating Your School-wide Character Social Emotional Development Skills and Transforming Your School Culture
Choose Love CARES workshops provide professional development and coaching that supports our Choose Love For Schools™ programming.
Choose Love for Schools™
Program At-A-Glance
Evidence-Based
Scientific research proves that teaching evidence-based SEL in the classroom significantly benefits all children, including those with special needs – that is, academically, behaviorally, physically, mentally and socio-emotionally. Click the orange icon above to view additional research on Choose Love For Schools™.
Positively Impacts Culture
Based on a fun, easy-to-learn foundation of 4 basic character values (the Choose Love Formula™) the Choose Love concepts and vernacular are easily shared among students and staff and create opportunities for better communication and community-building throughout the school.
Created by Educators, for Educators
Designed to be ready to implement with no training required. 99% of educators say Choose Love for Schools™ has improved their classroom. And they love how easy it is to adapt and customize to fit their needs.
Casel-aligned, Plus
Includes CHARACTER.ORG model standards, as well as Neuroscience, Growth Mindset, Positive Psychology, Mindfulness and Post-Traumatic Growth.
Promotes Connection and Belonging
The Choose Love For Schools™ Pre-K through Grade 5 lessons include a multicultural literature component that teaches connection and belonging. Through literature students learn to appreciate their own cultures as well as those of others. Engaging in children’s literature provides them opportunities to gain perspective and develop empathy, increase social-emotional development, establish a growth mindset, and foster creativity.
Connects Schools To Homes & Communities
In response to the hundreds of parents and caregivers who have marveled about the changes they noticed in their children after learning Choose Love at school, we created video-based Choose Love For Home™ and Choose Love For Communities™ programs to reinforce and extend the benefits of the program into local communities.
Entire towns like Livermore, CA and Bentonville, Arkansas have adopted Choose Love throughout their schools, local businesses, town organizations and governmental departments. In 2018 Choose Love For Schools™ was endorsed by the State of New Hampshire’s School Safety Preparedness Task Force and is now encouraged at schools statewide and used by the state’s Department of Homeland Security.
Special Trauma Unit For Back-to-school
Developed to encourage post-traumatic growth and help students and teachers feel grounded, safe, welcome, accepted, seen, heard, cared for, and loved as they navigate the “new normal” of post-COVID learning. To preview this program, click the icon.
Testimonials
Choose Love has had an immediate and positive impact on our school community. After a comprehensive review of available SEL approaches, our team unanimously selected ‘Choose Love’ for its approach, alignment, and vision to support the social/emotional learning and well being of our students and staff. It has been wonderful to see how quickly ‘Choose Love’ has been embraced by our schools and our community. Scarlett provided a moving Keynote address at our Convocation, which sparked our initial efforts. We are so grateful for this partnership and the benefits ‘Choose Love’ will bring to our students.
Meet Your Choose Love Ambassador
Have additional questions? Locate and connect with a Certified Choose Love Ambassador near you.
Register For Program Access
In less than 5 minutes you will be connected to all of our programs as well as our Educator Guide, Implementation Best Practices, Supplemental Materials and more!
Training & Implementation
NEW! Whether your staff is in need of some SELF Care, Professional Development or full-service implementation and support for our programs, we’ve got you covered.
