Empower Your Students

Teach students to recognize healthy, safe qualities and behaviors in relationships with standards-aligned resources for in-school use.

About

Take A Stand for Healthy Relationships is an exciting new program from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and Discovery Education that teaches students how to understand and build healthy relationships. New standards-aligned curriculum will encourage important skills in communication and self-awareness.

Curriculum

With self-paced modules and lesson plans, students will garner important skills in communication and self-awareness. Students will learn to recognize healthy and safe qualities and behaviors in relationships. They will explore how to effectively and safely advocate for themselves and others to help them build healthy relationships. Accompanying educator guides provide school staff with strategies to support students through the critical content.

Developing Emotional Intelligence

Grade 6-8

Explore complex emotions to recognize and understand the emotions and needs of others.

Module 1

BACKGROUND

This module will help students understand that emotions are complicated and begin to help them recognize and understand the emotions and needs of others.

EDUCATOR GUIDE (PDF)

External Influencers

Grade 6-8

Examine external influencers, such as the media, to consciously understand our decisions and how we feel about ourselves and others.

Module 2

BACKGROUND

This module will help students explore the things around them that affect the way they feel about themselves and others as well as the decisions they make.

EDUCATOR GUIDE (PDF)

Love and Respect

Grade 6-8

Learn about different types of relationships and how love is represented through respect for one another.

Module 3

BACKGROUND

This module will explore love as represented in different types of relationships. Students will learn about healthy conflict, treating one another well as they explore healthy, respectful and safe relationship examples.

Creating Healthy Relationships

Grade 6-8

Identify unhealthy behaviors in a relationship and how to create a healthy relationship while eliminating mistreatment.

Module 4

BACKGROUND

This module will help students identify unhealthy behaviors in relationships.

Allying Healthy Safe Romantic Relationships

Grade 6-8

Learn how to provide safe help to others and ally for safe relationships through bystander intervention.

Module 5

BACKGROUND

This module will help students learn more about allying, bystanding and how to recognize healthy and safe qualities and behaviors in relationships.

Take a Stand

Grade 6-8

Build alliances to work for change and take action to stand for healthy relationships.

Module 6

BACKGROUND

This module will focus on learning how to make a greater effort to stop violence through Taking a Stand for Healthy Relationships by integrating NCADV’s Take A Stand Campaign.

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Resources

Explore additional resources from NCADV to learn more about the issues surrounding domestic violence.

Partners

NCADV is the voice of victims and survivors. We are the catalyst for changing society to have zero tolerance for domestic violence. We do this by effecting public policy, increasing understanding of the impact of domestic violence, and providing programs and education that drive that change. For more information about NCADV, visit www.ncadv.org.

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind. Serving 3 million educators and over 30 million students, Discovery Education's services are in half of U.S. classrooms, over 40 percent of all primary schools in the UK, and more than 50 countries. Discovery Education partners with districts, states and like-minded organizations to captivate students, empower teachers, and transform classrooms with customized solutions that increase academic achievement. Discovery Education is powered by Discovery Communications, the number one nonfiction media company in the world. Explore the future of education at DiscoveryEducation.com.

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