Transform Learning with Social-Emotional Skills

Courageous Choices: Empowering Students

Courageous Choices is a comprehensive social-emotional learning (SEL) program that equips students with essential skills in emotional awareness, self-regulation, and resilience. Available in versions for K-5 and early childhood (Pre-K), the program addresses the critical need to build self-awareness and foster lifelong self-regulation strategies. This updated edition continues to offer CASEL-aligned tools for teaching social, emotional, and behavioral skills, grounded in trauma-informed and resilience-focused principles. Through Courageous Choices, students learn to manage emotions, improve behavior, and apply these skills in all areas of life, both in and outside school.

What’s Included?
Courageous Choices offers a rich suite of materials to support SEL in classrooms and behavioral health settings, designed for skill development, practice, and reinforcement.

  • Guidebook: Printed and digital guidebooks per grade level
  • Calming Corners Visuals: Tools for a self-regulation space in each classroom
  • Google Slide Lessons: Ten digital lessons to introduce each SEL skill
  • Posters: Display materials to support continuous skill reinforcement in the classroom
  • Student Worksheets: Exercises for practicing and reviewing each skill
  • Parent/Caregiver Strategies: Tools to encourage skill reinforcement at home

What Sets Courageous Choices Apart?
Courageous Choices is a flexible and impactful SEL program with unique benefits for teachers and students:

  • Seamless Integration: Complements any SEL curriculum, enhancing existing programs with minimal disruption.
  • Real-World Application: Provides students with actionable skills to manage stress, regulate emotions, and build resilience.
  • Trauma-Informed and Resilience-Focused: Built on trauma-informed principles, helping students develop resilience to face challenges.
  • Flexible Implementation: Suitable for both school and behavioral health settings, adapting to diverse learning environments.
  • Lifelong Skills: Prepares students to apply social and emotional skills across settings for lasting personal growth.

Bring Courageous Choices to Your School or Organization
Empower your students with tools for social, emotional, and behavioral success—in school and beyond. Purchase Courageous Choices or contact us to see how it can meet your unique needs.

    Have questions? Contact our experts to learn more about how Courageous Choices can benefit your students.

    Take the first step toward building a resilient, emotionally aware learning environment!

    By Starr Commonwealth


    About Starr Commonwealth

    Starr Commonwealth is dedicated to the mission to lead with courage to create positive experiences so that all children, families, and communities flourish. We specialize in residential, community-based, educational, and professional training programs that build on the strengths of children, adults, and families in communities around the world. To schedule a training or consultation, please contact info@starr.org or call 800-837-5591.