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New and Updated Overcoming Obstacles Resources

Posted: May 17, 2018

At Overcoming Obstacles, we want to ensure that educators, parents, and community leaders have up-to-date resources to teach young people essential life skills. This past year, we developed a series of new materials and updated others to ensure that young people can learn how to communicate effectively, set meaningful goals, make sound decisions, think critically, cope with difficulties, and empathize with others.

Whether you have already registered for an account or have yet to do so, now is the best time to see all of our resources available to you. Please let your friends and colleagues know about these free resources by sharing our website and Facebook page with them today!

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULA

Newly updated in 2018, our award-winning and research-based Middle School and High School curricula provide you with materials to teach your students essential life skills every day of the school year, covering 28 important topics including:

  • Communication
  • Decision Making
  • Goal Setting
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Empathy
  • Study Skills
  • Time Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Coping
  • Critical Thinking
  • Respect
  • College and Career Readiness

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES ELEMENTARY LEVEL CURRICULA

Released in 2017, our Elementary level curricula (available for grades K-2 and 3-5) are designed to provide you with the tools to teach listening, empathy, integrity, perseverance, respect, and more. Students will develop coping skills, will learn how to adopt a more positive outlook, how to identify and resist negative peer pressure, how to be responsible individuals, how to work well with others, how to resolve conflicts, and how to be a good friend and a good citizen.

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES ACTIVITY SHEETS TRANSLATIONS

In order to ensure that our almost 5 million ELL students have the same opportunity to learn life skills as their English-speaking classmates, all of our activity sheets for middle and high school are available in Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese in addition to English. Versions in Portuguese, Haitian-Creole, Urdu, Korean, Bengalis, Swahili, and Zulu will also be available later this summer.

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES SNAPSHOTS

Our new series of handbooks, called Snapshots, contains a collection of brief, engaging, literacy-focused lessons that can be easily infused into core content subjects. Here is what is available now:

  • Snapshots for Bullying Prevention
  • Snapshots for Substance Abuse Prevention
  • Snapshots for Acquiring Core Skills (with versions for Art Teachers, English Teachers, and Coaches)

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES PARENT/CHILD SNAPSHOTS

Parents want to ensure that their children have a fulfilling and happy life. These life skills Snapshots (available in English and Spanish) provide them with an opportunity to become more actively involved in their children’s growth and ensure that they are learning the skills for success. Through these brief and engaging activities, parents help their children learn how to be good listeners, treat others well, cope with difficulties, solve problems, set goals, and more.

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