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Back-to-School Resources Hub

Heading back to school means helping students adjust to new teachers, new routines, new expectations, and new social situations. For educators, therapists, and parents, it's also a time to find the right tools to support that transition.


This resource hub brings together articles, lessons, strategies, and activities from the Social Thinking® Methodology and beyond to support the social, academic, and executive functioning skills students use every day. Take a look at some of our newest work and then keep scrolling to find bundles, downloadable tools, training options, freebies, and articles.

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Back-to-School Bundles

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On Demand Courses

Early Learners (Ages 4-7)

Teaching the We Thinkers! Curriculum Series with Fidelity: A Short Course

This short 2-hour course is designed to give educators, therapists, and parents/caregivers an understanding of the We Thinkers! series, a metacognitive curriculum for 4- to 7-year-olds. It introduces social cognitive concepts; strategies for implementing the series with fidelity, including engineering the environment, pacing, and playing with the concepts; and highlights key components of social thinking, group formulation, and service delivery. Lessons are story-based, games oriented, and support inquiry-based learning using hands-on, multisensory teaching tools. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.


Download this free infographic on building social competencies for early learners.

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2 hours of training and CE credit available for select professionals.

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Superflex Series

Teaching the Superflex Curriculum Series with Fidelity: A Short Course

Educators, therapists, and caregivers have been asking for a motivating and fun way to teach elementary students social, emotional, and academic concepts. This short course will focus on the theory underlying core lessons and how to implement a detective and superhero themed social, emotional, and academic learning (SEAL) teaching series with fidelity. Consider this to be the essential crash course for implementing the Dynamic Duo Curriculum series with fidelity. Content is designed for students 7-11+ years. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

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2 hours of training and CE credit available for select professionals.

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Brand New Course!

Back-to-School Strategies for Executive Function Success

Teach It Today, See It Tomorrow

Join Sarah Ward and Kristen Jacobsen for this dynamic and practical back-to-school course that introduces powerful, ready-to-use strategies from the new Time Tracker Program, designed to help students shift from relying on adult prompting to becoming truly independent planners. This session will equip educators, therapists, and parents with concrete tools to make time visible and help students envision it, plan it, do it, and get it done! The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.


NOTE: This course will discuss the Time Tracker Program with limited information about like products or services.

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3 hours of CE credit available for select professionals.

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Social Thinking Vocabulary

Implementing Social Thinking Concepts and Vocabulary

A Day to Develop Team Creativity

Both teachers and learners need practical ways to think about the social world. In this introductory course, you will learn 15+ practical teaching strategies using Social Thinking Vocabulary and visual frameworks. The activities from this course focus on making abstract social information more concrete through lessons to teach social learners how to socially attend, interpret, problem solve, and respond to social information. Activities will also focus on strategies for teaching emotional understanding, theory of mind/perspective taking, and executive functioning to help learners meet their own social goals. Note: This course is introductory and designed for those who are new to Social Thinking or just want to expand how they teach lessons from the Social Thinking Methodology. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.

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4.5 hours of training and CE credit available for select professionals.

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DOs and DON'Ts for Teaching with Social Thinking Materials

While traveling, people inquire about the "DOs and DON'Ts" of Social Thinking. The response emphasizes flexibility, observation, support, and presence. It turns out that the advice given to students and clients applies to everyone.

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The Social Thinking–Social Competency Model (ST-SCM)

Have you ever wondered how do we know what to do or say in a given situation? The Social Thinking-Social Competency Model breaks down this big, complex process into four foundational steps.

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The Social Thinking Vocabulary

The energy of students flows from the hallway into the classroom as a new school day begins. Students put their bodies in the group, think with their eyes to make a smart guess about the group plan, and use flexible thinking and problem solving throughout the day.

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10 DOs and DON'Ts for Teaching Superflex

Superflex® has become super-popular! We have enjoyed hearing from so many people around the world about their love of Superflex and the Team of UnthinkaBots and Thinkables and the positive effect the Superflex curriculum has on helping individuals become better social thinkers and social problem solvers!

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DO ObseRve (DOOR): A Practical Social Observation Strategy for Managing Social Transitions

Explore the teachable role that everyday doors play in developing social observation skills. By encouraging students, children, and clients to use the Do ObseRve strategy before entering a new space, they can gather information, make smart guesses about what to expect, and navigate social situations more effectively. Free Downloadable: DO ObseRve (DOOR) Thinksheet