Preventing Bullying & Supporting Mental Health in Children

At Rachel’s Challenge, we create change. We know that hope is the antidote to fear. We know that kindness is contagious, that compassion connects us, that empathy can end isolation. We teach these positive tools and skills to address the causes of bullying and self-harm directly at the source: we don’t treat the symptoms; we cure the disease. Our elementary school programs are proven to create a positive school culture, leading to safer schools and emotionally resilient students.

Kindness, like so many other social emotional tools, is something we learn. We all naturally mirror what we experience, and when we’re young those experiences shape who we are. By inviting children to practice kindness, and showing them how to connect, we introduce habits that will stick. Habits that they will end up practicing on each other, their families, trees, rocks, cardboard boxes… there’s plenty of kindness to go around. Because that’s the nature of kindness: when it is shared, it spreads in the best way possible.

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Students, Educators,
Parents trained

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Lives saved
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School shootings
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Social Emotional Learning & PBIS for Elementary Students

Social emotional learning & PBIS principles like kindness and compassion are the foundation of mental health, behavior management, and creating schools that are free from bullying and violence. By engaging the youngest among us in activities that support positive behavior, we have an opportunity to lean out into the future and shape the world to come.

Rachel’s Challenge elementary school packages provide activities, lessons, and age-appropriate content based on the life and writings of Rachel Scott, who deliberately reached out to others with kind words and actions, making a huge impact on their lives.

Packages offer both digital and on-site options to allow program customization and flexibility for your school. Our digital and on-site programs are complementary and completely modular. A school can implement digital programming as an effective follow-up to sustain the momentum of an on-site presentation, or use digital programming to prepare in advance of an on-site assembly.

Rachel’s Challenge programs promote key elements in Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Core Competencies. These learned skills include: better understanding and management of our own emotions, empathy, appropriate interaction with others, and good decision making.

Addressing Core Competencies

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Create Positive Outcomes

  • 1 - Understand and manage emotions
  • 2 - Feel and show empathy for other
  • 3 - Make responsible decisions
  • 4 - Establish and maintain positive relationships
  • 5 - Set and achieve

We like to say that we are not an anti-bullying program; that instead, we are pro-kindness. By modeling, inspiring and supporting positive behavior, we avoid the negative effects of disciplinary action taken against bullying and violence after they happen.

By steering the culture of schools, we transform the culture of communities, as elementary school students transition into the leaders of tomorrow.

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Our Elementary School programs allow program customization and flexibility for your school

  • Digital

  • On-site

  • Combined

Digital and on-site programs are complementary to each other and completely modular. Many schools use Digital programming to maintain the momentum they experience from hosting the Live school activities. Both programs are also useful stand-alone.

Contact one of our program representatives to learn more about our solution today!

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Rachel’s Challenge has helped me continue my chain reaction an entire decade later. Today, as I cultivate my “save the world gene” as a young professional, I am reminded of where it began. With kindness and compassion.”

Rachel’s Challenge Student
Participant
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Rachel’s Challenge is the most powerful intervention I’ve seen in my 40 years of educational research.”

Dr Roberto Marzano
Educator, Researcher, Author
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Rachel’s Challenge stimulates academic and social emotional-learning by focusing on the connection between students, faculties and staff.”

Curt Pacholke
Principal, Rice Lake High School

Bring Rachel's Challenge to your school today

Join the nearly 30,000,000 people around the world who have accepted Rachel’s Challenge to start a chain reaction of kindness.

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