Positive Action Curriculum
Our Positive Action Curriculum is available to K - 12 schools to enhance student's social and emotional skills.
About the Curriculum
Positive Action is a proven evidence-based curriculum designed to enhance a youth’s protective factors by building the student’s social and emotional learning skills. Positive Action is based on the intuitive philosophy that we feel good about ourselves when we do positive actions. The curriculum is available in K through 12th grade and is broken down by grade levels into 8 lessons.
Lesson Guide
01 Self Concept
Students learn how to think and feel about themselves and how their family and friends influence their self-concept.
02 Positive Actions for Your Body & Mind
Students learn how to focus on specific positive action for physical health (nutrition, hygiene, avoiding harmful substances, exercise, sleep, avoiding illness) and positive actions for intellectual health (learning, problem-solving, creative thinking, memory and curiosity).
03 Managing Yourself Responsibly
Students learn to manage their own resources: time, energy, possessions, money, talents, thoughts, actions, and feelings. Students learn ways to manage their feelings, so their feelings do not control them.
04 Treating Others the Way You Like to be Treated
Students learn and practice respect, empathy, friendliness, kindness, cooperation, and positiveness as positive ways of dealing with others.
05 Telling Yourself the Truth
Students practice telling themselves the truth, knowing themselves, not blaming others, admitting mistakes, not making excuses, and keeping their word.
06 Improving Yourself Continually
Students learn how to set short-term and long-term goals, and how to make goal setting work. They are taught to believe in their potential, to have courage to try, to turn problems into opportunities, and to work steadily toward improvement.
07 Review
Students review the principles learned throughout the program.
Bonus ATOD Presentations
As a bonus education lesson, ETCADA provides two additional presentations on one of the four main prevention priorities; alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and prescription drugs.
Why is this beneficial?
- Positive Action is an evidenced-based, integrated and coherent program that addresses a youth’s entire eco-system – school, family, and community. It is proven to reduce problem behaviors such as substance use and misuse and bullying while improving academics, behavior, mental and physical health, social and emotional learning, and school climate.
- ETCADA’s team of highly trained and certified Prevention Specialists are State contracted by Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to teach this curriculum in schools at no cost to the school or community. As an added incentive, Red Ribbon materials and incentives are provided for all students and faculty for each campus where ETCADA facilitates Positive Action curriculum. ETCADA also offers alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) presentations during Red Ribbon week and year-round.
- Positive Action satisfies Texas Education Code Sec. 38.351 requiring schools to provide mental health promotion and intervention, substance use and misuse, prevention and intervention, and suicide prevention programs.
Program Details
Where?
Positive Action is a school-based program and must be delivered in a classroom setting with a desk surface area for writing. We offer to facilitate this program for free in any and all school districts located in the 23 counties of Texas Public Health Region 4.
When?
- Anytime a school is dedicated to achieving excellence.
- Anytime an effective turnaround program is needed.
- Anytime a school needs intervention for special populations and/or purposes.
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