Standares & Alignments
Our Circle practices and B.R.A.V.E. Youth Leadership classes are explicitly crosswalked with CASEL standards, CSED guidelines, and the NYS CR-SE framework — giving your faculty the exact tools they need to track student growth and generate empirical evidence for graduation portfolios.
We don’t sit in rows talking about virtues or passively educating students; our work is about active, real-time practice. Through our unique model, upper elementary, middle, and high school students actually become the living, breathing delivery system for your district's SEL and character education. By taking our foundational Circle practices and age-mixed learning down to the elementary level, these student leaders facilitate Hero Huddles and mentor their younger peers through play-based scenarios. The beauty of this framework is that while the older students are actively driving the culture change, they are simultaneously working on and sharpening those exact same leadership, communication, and emotional regulation skills themselves.
Our models directly support the New York State Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) Framework and the NYS Portrait of a Graduate attributes by establishing identity-affirming, high-expectation spaces that challenge students to think critically, communicate effectively, and act as ethical global citizens.
Furthermore, our deliberate behavioral modeling and leadership coursework thoroughly fulfill the Character and Social-Emotional Development (CSED) National Guidelines and all five CASEL core competencies. By fostering self-awareness, personal accountability, and empathetic peer-to-peer influence, we provide educators with rigorous, measurable pathways to evaluate student growth and seamlessly supply empirical data for student graduation portfolios.
