Elementary School
As part of our comprehensive gang intervention/prevention curriculum, elementary school materials are age-appropriate prevention tools. These materials are designed to be used flexibly to achieve school, district, and community objectives. For a broad overview of our curricula, please refer to our Introduction to the Phoenix Curriculum. Most of these materials are written explicitly for grades 4 and 5.
If you have any questions, we urge you to fill out our phone consultation form. A representative will call you to discuss whether the program is right for you.
Decision Matrix
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|---|---|---|---|
| Core Program (elementary school 25-hour version) | YES | ||
| Core Program (elementary school 50-hour version) | YES | ||
| What Do You Think? | YES | YES | YES |
| Gang Awareness | YES | YES | YES |
| DVD — Choices | YES | YES | YES |
| Gathering/Closing Activities | OPTIONAL | ||
| Bullying | OPTIONAL | YES | |
| Peer Pressure | OPTIONAL | YES | |
| Teachers Manual | YES | YES | YES |
| Parents Materials (English/Spanish) | OPTIONAL | YES | AVAILABLE |
The 50-Hour Core Curriculum
The following lessons make up The Phoenix Curriculum Elementary School core curriculum.
Your values, dreams and goals
- What’s important to you? (values activities)
- Your Dreams and Your Goals
- What’s at the end of your rainbow?
- Making your dreams come true
- Just like magic
Emotional Intelligence
- You’re on stage
- Know your feelings
- Problem solving trios
- You have a right to your feelings
- Cues and feelings
- Caring
- Feelings cards
Problem Solving
- Problem Solving and Thought Stopping (avoiding impulsive thinking)
- Problem recognition: using cues to warn yourself about trouble
- Problem recognition activities
- What could happen? (consequential thinking)
- What are your choices? (alternative solution thinking)
- Risks and consequences (weighing pros and cons)
- How your decisions affect other people (consequential thinking, sensitivity to other people's feelings)
- Doing the right thing (consequential thinking)
- Making a wise choice (consequential thinking)
Risk Factors
- Going to an adult for help
- Where can I go? What can I do?
- Handling risks - where do you stand?
- Problems and solutions
- Life can be painful
- Peer pressure
- Gangs
- Making a wise choice
- Where do you draw the line?
- How to avoid danger
- "Escape skills"
- Refusal skills
- How to slow down
- Do you know how to "calm down?"
Protective Factors
- It’s good to be me
- What makes me special
- Give yourself a hand
- Building the family pyramid
- My team
- Real friend or not
- Friendship - group activity
- How can we help?
- Belonging
- Who can you count on?
- How to tell your real friends
- My role models
- Your "dream team"
- Your neighborhood