Curriculum Components, the 8 Cs

Our workbooks helps students explore their PINS, preferences, interests, needs, strengths, and career aspirations, accept and love who they are, where they come from, and beliefs that have helped them to become who they are. They build their strengths, identify their needs, address them, and make purposeful decisions that align with their preferences and interests. They raise their self-awareness, and their awareness of the world. 

They work to be sensitive to other people's opinions and 

learn how to appreciate differences. 

Activities and discussion questions:

• Identify and expand opinions on social responsibility, and what values matter to you, your family, community, and career. 
• Evaluate where you fit right now and in your future. 
• Engage in activities that help you understand the social dynamics of the group in which you are a part to participate accordingly. 
• Identify and expand how you view other perspectives, diversity, and inclusivity. 
• Develop your growth paths and practice accepting and using critical feedback. 
• Explore career trajectories and consider your ability to work in different environments, areas, or roles.  

Our workbooks helps students identify ideas, contexts and situations that cause anxiety and fear and work to overcome them. They practice getting good at the things that take practice, things like setting priorities, making an action plan, developing good habits, that can grow their confidence, and help them realize they can set lofty goals and achieve them. Students learn that practicing the right skills can help them to uncover the person they are inside as unique and destined for greatness, and that anything can be learned and mastered with persistence and perseverance.

Activities and discussion questions:

• Raise self-awareness of preferences, interests, needs, strengths, and triggers and how they can influence confidence levels in different contexts, impacting how you feel and act. 
• Cultivate connections to create support systems that push you towards your goals, rather than away from them.
• Analyze cultural norms, past experiences, mindset, preparedness, authenticity, risk tolerance, resiliency, and emotional regulation tendencies that support or prohibit growth and make changes.
• Repeatedly practice prioritizing and setting goals to increase confidence in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.

Curiosity is foundational to increasing background knowledge, which then leads to the ability to apply knowledge, think critically, be innovative and solve problems. Conversation with people different from oneself, more knowledgable than oneself can help to developing an understanding, and more questions, which leads to more curiosity, more learning and growing.

 Activities and discussion questions:

• Explore common interests, styles of conversation, and adaptability in conversations
• Inspire curiosity in different settings, with different people.
• Practice giving and receiving feedback.
• Practice open-mindedness to foster a safe space for sharing ideas.
• Practice active listening to encourage deeper conversations
• Strive to embody empathy, speculate on the emotions and motivation of others, and cultural differences that inform thinking, and then find evidence to support or refute ideas.
• Challenge cognitive distortions and biases and their origins.
• Use open-ended questions to stimulate discussion and show genuine interest.

Learning to give and receive information for the purpose of moving forward is an art, and necessary for advancement and growth. Our workbooks focus on communicating wants and needs, understanding other's viewpoints, thinking critically about messages being given and received is essential to living well and is practiced throughout this series.

Activities and discussion questions:

• Be clear, continuous, and straightforward when communicating.
• Practice listening to understand.
• Encourage an empathetic and safe environment for people to express themselves.
• Encourage feedback and validate others’ contributions to ideas.
• Recognize and respect diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
• Define clear roles and responsibilities in every context to avoid confusion.
• Promote a culture where different values and opinions are expected.
• Be mindful of limitations.
• Establish processes for addressing disagreements constructively.
• Create a common vision to increase alignment toward goals.
• Implement regular feedback loops to improve processes and relationships.
• Recognize the impact of personality types on collaboration.