Build life-skills for kids with dynamic and engaging experiences
Equip youth with essential tools for navigating the complexities of daily life and personal growth. Explorers curriculum provides direct instruction and explicit practice of building life skills to help build the foundation for personal development, positive mental health, and successful interaction with others.
Elementary Curriculum
GRADE BANDS: preK-K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Carefully designed to include all the components needed to positively impact the culture and climate of youth programs, the elementary curriculum includes fun and engaging:
Routines
Promote and reinforce positive behaviors with research-based practices
Life Skills
Empower kids to understand & practice life skills
Adventures
Blend learning & life skills through engaging themed activities
Discussions
Facilitate structured group discussions on specific topics
Connections
Cultivate community through engaging group activities
Fitness
Activate & strengthen kids with intentional movement sessions
Middle School Curriculum
GRADE BAND: 6-8
The focus for middle schoolers is on building leadership skills. This aligns with their developmental needs and empowers them to become responsible, compassionate, and capable leaders who positively impact their immediate environment and beyond.
Cultivating leaders
The same approach applies to middle school: the curriculum is carefully designed to include all the components needed to positively impact program culture and climate.
Grades 6-8 curricula also include these components, designed to their developmental needs:
Routines
Life skills activities & discussions
Discussions
Connections
Fitness
Leadership
Introduce key leadership principles & activities
Service-Learning
Practice leadership through community-focused projects
Virtual Field Trips
Explore leadership and future careers
Life Skills
Life skills are defined as "the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life." There is significant overlap between life skills and frameworks focused on emotional and social development. Life skills often include additional important competencies, such as creative and critical thinking, that may not be explicitly highlighted in many social and emotional development approaches.
