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Arise Teacher’s Manual
Price range: $24.99 through $39.99The Arise teacher’s manual provides teachers with guided lesson plans and activities to accompany the Arise video series. The Arise series is a social emotional learning program for middle and high school students. It integrates the best of neurobiology with the call to virtue and holiness, leading adolescents to happiness, holiness, and secure attachment. The teacher’s manual includes:
• Learning objectives
• Relevant neuroscience information
• Lesson plans and activities to teach neuroscience, social emotional learning strategies, and virtues
• Saint biographies
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Secure in Grace Teacher’s Manual, Module 1
$5.99The Secure in Grace teacher’s manual provides teachers with guided instruction and activities to accompany each lesson. The aim of this curriculum is to invite children to know and participate in their own neurodevelopment. To this end, the lessons teach students important skills through engaging video and audio recordings as well as activities to reinforce the content. Secure in Grace stands alone as it integrates virtue, neuroscience, social-emotional learning and the saints to lead students to happiness, holiness and secure attachment.
Module 1 is foundational for Secure in Grace. It places social-emotional learning under the umbrella of Catholic Christian anthropology which recognizes God’s design for childhood neurodevelopment by integrating faith, virtue and interpersonal neurobiology. This Module is central for understanding why Secure in Grace is the path to educating and raising our youth to be secure in God’s love and grace.
Note: Module 1 contains seven topics and is different from the format in Modules 2-6. Beginning September 1, the Modules for Secure in Grace will be released on the first day of each month.
- Digital download
- Course description and scope and sequence
- 7 detailed lessons
- 30 pages
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Secure in Grace Teacher’s Manual, Module 2
$5.99The Secure in Grace teacher’s manual provides teachers with guided instruction and activities to accompany each lesson. The aim of this curriculum is to invite children to know and participate in their own neurodevelopment. To this end, the lessons teach students important skills through engaging video and audio recordings as well as activities to reinforce the content. Secure in Grace stands alone as it integrates virtue, neuroscience, social-emotional learning and the saints to lead students to happiness, holiness and secure attachment.
Module 2: Regulating with Temperance marks the beginning of the journey toward becoming secure in God’s love and grace! In Modules 2-6, the virtues are explored more deeply, connecting them to both neuroscience and social-emotional learning. In this module, students focus on the Cardinal Virtue of Temperance and its related virtues. Students will learn strategies for regulating emotions and managing the body’s fight, flight, or freeze response, fostering a sense of safety and stability. Students will discover what it means to feel emotionally safe – a vital first step toward living in a still point of grace and building secure attachment with God and others.
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Secure in Grace Teacher’s Manual, Module 3
$5.99The Secure in Grace teacher’s manual provides teachers with guided instruction and activities to accompany each lesson. The aim of this curriculum is to invite children to know and participate in their own neurodevelopment. To this end, the lessons teach students important skills through engaging video and audio recordings as well as activities to reinforce the content. Secure in Grace stands alone as it integrates virtue, neuroscience, social-emotional learning and the saints to lead students to happiness, holiness and secure attachment.
Module 3: Finding Strength with Fortitude, students focus on the Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude and its related virtues. Students will explore strategies for building meaningful connections and discover the joy that comes from strong, positive relationships. Through these experiences, they will see how communion with others deepens their self-understanding and helps them express emotions in healthy ways. In turn, this strengthens their secure attachment with both God and the people around them, becoming more firmly rooted in God’s grace.
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Secure in Grace Teacher’s Manual, Module 4
$5.99The Secure in Grace teacher’s manual provides teachers with guided instruction and activities to accompany each lesson. The aim of this curriculum is to invite children to know and participate in their own neurodevelopment. To this end, the lessons teach students important skills through engaging video and audio recordings as well as activities to reinforce the content. Secure in Grace stands alone as it integrates virtue, neuroscience, social-emotional learning and the saints to lead students to happiness, holiness and secure attachment.
Module 4: Relating with Justice marks the halfway point on the journey to becoming secure in God’s love and grace! In this module, students focus on the Cardinal Virtue of Justice and its related virtues. Students will build on their strategies for forming strong relationships while learning how to problem-solve and make wise choices. As they strengthen their ability to regulate emotions, they also grow in reasoning through challenges and choosing what is right and good. These skills are essential for living in the River of Grace and deepening their secure attachment with God and others.
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Examination of Conscience Bundle
$4.99These printable examinations of conscience are meant to meet the needs of disciples of all ages.
- Brief, simple examination and in-depth virtue-based examination for children.
- Seven deadly sins examination for teens and adults based on “Paths to Conversion” chart.
A guide on how to go to confession accompanies each handout.
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Children’s Way of the Cross Booklet
$2.99This booklet accompanies our Children’s Pray-Along Way of the Cross, but can also be prayed fruitfully in any church or classroom.
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All Souls Download Bundle
$0.99This resource bundle includes everything you need to make praying for the faithful departed part of your school’s culture.
With the locker tag, students can create visible reminders that encourage them to pray for their loved ones who have died. (We recommend putting the tags in plastic sleeves to prevent photos from being lost or damaged.) The bundle also includes a sheet for recording the names of students’ departed loved ones that can be placed in a binder for remembrance at Masses during the month of November.
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Unlocking Education in Virtue Guidebook (PDF Download)
Suggested Price: $3.99This downloadable guidebook accompanies the Educator’s Guide and several video series that walk teachers from the beginnings of implementation to proficiency in teaching and living the virtues.
If you are looking for the printed copy please click here!
The purpose of Unlocking Education in Virtue Guidebook is to support educators in understanding how to live a virtuous life and grow as a disciple of Jesus Christ.
With the tools and resources provided, educators will:
- Learn the basics of Disciple of Christ, Education in Virtue
- Understand how to teach virtue
- Practice applying virtue to their own lives
- Learn how to establish a school culture that supports children in all aspects of development – intellectual, physical, social–emotional, and spiritual.
Simply put, through this training, educators will understand how to unlock their purpose in life.
71 pages
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Disciple of Christ | Think Sheets
These Think Sheets give a positive direction to discipline and help students “Name it to Tame it.”
- Employs language of the virtues
- Help students examine causes and consequences of their behavior
- 3 age-levels included: early childhood, elementary, and middle school
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Lenten Journal for Grades 3-4
$2.99Easy to print Lenten Worksheets for third and fourth-grade children to fill out each day of Lent.
Guide your students through the Bible this Lent and introduce them to the virtues.
These Lenten Journal worksheets for elementary students are designed to offer short Scripture passages and questions to help the students reflect on the Word of God. The meanings of different virtues are given, and the children can write or draw pictures of ways they will practice that virtue.
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