Unlocking Creativity and Thoughtful Decision-Making
Foster your child’s creativity, adaptability, and decision-making to help them tackle challenges and explore new possibilities.
Thoughtful Creator
Plan Objectives:
- Enhance Problem-Solving: Teach children to identify and address challenges creatively and effectively.
- Foster Decision-Making Skills: Equip children with tools to evaluate options and make informed choices.
- Build Adaptability: Encourage children to adjust to new situations and thrive in changing environments.
- Ignite Creativity: Inspire children to think outside the box and develop innovative ideas.
- Promote Self-Reflection: Help children understand their strengths and learn from mistakes, in order to grow confidently.
Module Overview
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Why This Plan?
This plan addresses the following challenges by developing targeted skills
Real-Life Applications
This plan addresses the following challenges by developing targeted skills
Tackling a School Project
This scenario guides your child in breaking down tasks and finding innovative solutions to complete projects successfully.
Evaluating Decisions
This scenario teaches your child to weigh the pros and cons of choices and make thoughtful decisions.
Adapting to New Situations
This scenario helps your child remain flexible and confident when facing unfamiliar environments or unexpected changes.
Innovating Creative Solutions
This scenario encourages your child to explore new ideas and develop impactful, creative solutions to challenges.
Courses Included
Developing SuperHuman Problem-Solving Skills
Course Objectives: Intellectual Problem-Solving
- Recognize essential problem-solving skills, breaking down complex issues into manageable steps.
- Foster critical thinking and decision-making abilities to analyze problems from multiple perspectives and find effective solutions.
- Develop teamwork and collaboration skills.
- Analyze innovative approaches like Root-Cause Analysis and Design Thinking to solve problems creatively and sustainably.
- Build resilience and adaptability by learning how to approach new challenges and learn from mistakes.
Don’t Wait: Create!
Course Objectives: Intellectual Creativity & Innovation
- Apply creative problem-solving techniques to identify real-world issues and develop innovative solutions that positively impact communities.
- Develop resilience and a growth mindset to overcome challenges, learn from failures, and persistently iterate on ideas and projects.
- Collaborate effectively with peers, providing constructive feedback and support while working on innovative projects and social initiatives.
- Create and present compelling pitches for original product ideas or social innovation projects, incorporating market research and user feedback.
- Cultivate an innovator's mindset by enhancing neuroplasticity, embracing continuous learning, and applying design thinking principles to various challenges.
Learning to Love Learning!
Course Objectives: Intellectual Learning & Adapting
- Develop a growth mindset by learning how to embrace challenges, persist through obstacles, and view failures as opportunities for growth.
- Cultivate self-advocacy skills by understanding how to express needs and feelings clearly, build confidence, and seek support in both academic and personal settings.
- Enhance adaptability and resilience by learning to adjust to new environments, overcome setbacks, and maintain a positive outlook during challenging situations.
- Strengthen communication and problem-solving abilities through critical thinking, assertive expression, and creative approaches to resolving conflicts and misunderstandings.
- Build meaningful connections and friendships by developing trust, navigating social interactions, and fostering personal growth through diverse experiences and relationships.
Making Responsible Choices
Course Objectives: Social Responsible Decision-Making
- Understand the significance of making responsible decisions by considering both short-term and long-term consequences and how those decisions impact your life and others.
- Learn to resist peer pressure and societal expectations, developing personal strategies to handle conflicting pressures and make independent, value-based decisions.
- Develop a growth mindset by viewing mistakes as learning opportunities, reflecting on past decisions, and improving future decision-making.
- Explore the importance of self-awareness and values in decision-making, recognizing how personal beliefs and blind spots influence choices.
- Understand the ripple effect of decisions, learning to assess both the immediate and long-term impacts of choices on yourself and others, while practicing safe and responsible decision-making.
Emotional You: Managing Your Emotions
Modules: 4
|Lessons: 33
Course Objectives: Emotional Self-Management
- Understand and manage emotions by recognizing both positive and negative responses and how they impact thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.
- Develop coping strategies for managing stress and negative emotions, including deep breathing, distraction tools, and expressive techniques.
- Build an emotion management toolbox that includes skills like emotion regulation, stress reduction, and problem-solving to handle everyday challenges.
Meet the Course Creators
Dr. Kymberli Barker
Dr. Barker is the mother of two fantastic young men, and they are her priority in life. She holds degrees in biochemistry, math, forensics, and psychology. She is a consultant and a professor at multiple colleges, including the Citadel, and Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. She spent fifteen years in public education, prior. Her personal focus is child advocacy and she developed the Guardian ad Litem/(GAL)/CASA program for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. She is tribally and state sworn as a GAL. Her favorite thing is being a mom.
Dr. Barker created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Developing SuperHuman Problem-Solving Skills
Lauren Hudak
Lauren Hudak is an educator with over eight years of experience. After graduating from the University of Virginia with degrees in English Literature and Media Studies, she went on to get her Masters in Teaching from New York University. Lauren has worked with all ages of students from Pre-K through college, but she thrives when working with middle schoolers. She believes this is the perfect age to integrate mindfulness, technology, and social emotional learning into student learning objectives. She wants to help students conquer their fears and build a better world. When she’s not teaching, Lauren loves being outdoors, traveling and spending time with her family.
Lauren created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Developing SuperHuman Problem-Solving Skills
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Don't Wait: Create!
Dr. Jim Dolson
Dr. Jim Dolson, EdD, is an accomplished business leader deeply devoted to education at all age levels. With extensive experience across diverse industries and unwavering dedication to teaching, he is the ideal person to develop an outstanding curriculum tailored to middle-school students. As a parent himself, Dr. Dolson understands at a personal level the significance of engaging and impactful learning experiences. His expertise as an instructor at multiple universities highlights his ability to inspire minds and bring out their full potential. Driven by a genuine passion for education, Dr. Dolson excels at creating a well-rounded curriculum that challenges and nurtures students' growth. His successful tenure as a K12 Superintendent reflects his commitment to fostering confident and academically empowered individuals. Families can trust Dr. Dolson’s expertise to provide an exceptional educational journey for students, ensuring they receive the best possible learning experience that prepares them for a successful future.
Dr. Dolson created his own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Developing SuperHuman Problem-Solving Skills
Jazmine Morales
Jazmine Morales is a passionate educator who is driven to provide a quality, equitable, and meaningful education to her students. She aims to make learning fun and engaging, while maintaining a rigorous and productive learning environment. She has taught an array of science classes, such as Biology, Physiology, Marine Biology, and Biomedical Science. Jazmine has earned her B.S. in Kinesiology, B.A. in Spanish, and M.A. in Urban Education with an emphasis in Language and Culture. She values and follows teaching practices that are proven through research to be the most valuable and effective for the newer generations of students. She continues to grow as an educator by attending professional developments and community college courses. Finally, she strives to help raise self-advocating leaders who understand the importance in making a difference in the world, for not only those who exist today, but for those who lie seven generations ahead.
Jazmine created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Learning to Love Learning!
Mandy Mahr
Mandy Mahr is a Masters Level educator who served in public schools in the United States for 15 years before becoming an online tutor to schools with at-risk students, providing social emotional support as well as skill recovery in reading and writing. She is also a consultant for content creation to provide guidance to organizations wanting to engage and employ GenZ. With the technological advances the world has seen in just the last twenty years, it is her goal to train learners to be ready for jobs that don't exist yet. She is passionate about helping learners develop social emotional skills before reaching the workforce.
Mandy created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Making Responsible Choices