A fully digital, sequenced SEL curriculum for TK-8, aligned to CASEL competencies and the Human Skills Framework. Students build one human skill per unit through an animated story, direct instruction, and applied practice, in sessions of 15 to 30 minutes.
Adopt it as your core SEL curriculum, or add it to the one you already chose to give students a place to apply what they are learning.
Our Curriculum supports:
Human skills return each year on a developmental progression, so the curriculum grows alongside the student. Every grade works from the same framework and the same language, and the demand rises as students are ready for it.
Each unit builds one human skill. Students meet it in the story, learn it in a lesson, use it with their team, then reflect on how they applied the skill.
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Animated Story Series
Each grade band has its own animated world. Starforce sends TK-2 cadets on missions across the galaxy. Apex Academy drops grades 3-8 into a world where the adults have vanished and the problems fall to them. The human skill surfaces right inside the story, and the whole class shares the experience.
Scope & Sequence
The curriculum is vertically aligned, with every episode mapped to the Human Skills Framework and to CASEL competencies. Skills develop in a grade-to-grade progression that meets students where they are and grows more complex as they advance.
Lessons
Each lesson is student-driven and grounded in how human skills actually develop, through application and reflection. Students practice the skill in a situation that calls for it, with their team, while the story is still live.
Monitoring
Measurement is part of the curriculum. Students complete a baseline check before the first episode, Pulse Checks as each skill develops, and a growth check at the end, so a district can see what changed over the year and where.
Easy to Use
The animations, lessons, and applied practice live on one platform, scripted and ready, with little to prep. Teachers log in and teach.
Each unit builds one human skill across a unified learning experience. It surfaces within the story, is taught in a short lesson, applied with a team, then reflected on and measured. The same pattern repeats from unit to unit.
Activate
Each episode opens by pulling students into what the characters at Apex Academy or Starforce are facing. The human skill surfaces right inside that story, so students meet it as something the moment calls for, curious before a single minute of instruction.
Learn
A short lesson teaches the skill directly. Students see what it looks like, pick up the language for it, and take a first guided try in a low-stakes setting.
Apply
Students put the skill to work in an interactive challenge their team can only solve together. The skill gets used for real, with peers and with something at stake.
Reflect
Right after the experience, students reflect on how they showed up and what they noticed, turning the moment into insight. A Side Quest then applies the skill in a real-world situation at home or in the community.
Check
A brief Pulse Check closes the lesson, giving the teacher evidence of whether the skill is taking hold and where to focus next. Because it is embedded in the instruction, the data arrives immediately.
7 story-driven units · 20-40 hours of content · 15-30 minute lessons · CASEL aligned. ESSA backed.
Each series features immersive animation and challenges built for the grade band.
Grades TK-2
Students blast off as space cadets, exploring new worlds and solving real challenges across the galaxy.
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Grades 3-8
Students enter Apex Academy as talented individuals. When every adult mysteriously disappears, they unite to lead, solve problems, and rebuild their world together.
Watch the TrailerPortrait of a Learner
For districts building a Portrait of a Learner, the curriculum gives those competencies a place to live in daily instruction. The skills in your profile map to the human skills students build episode by episode.
Core Instruction
The curriculum becomes your whole-class human skills instruction. Teachers lead the full class through one story across the year, in scripted lessons built for a 15 to 30 minute block, two to four times a week. It fits the schedule you already have.
Intervention and Small Groups
The same story and lessons work at a smaller scale, where teachers focus on the specific skills a group is building. More room to practice, reflect, and revisit a skill until it holds.
Multilingual Classrooms
Animation, voice, and captions carry meaning together, so students at every proficiency level participate from the first episode. Teams put students in conversation with peers all year, which is where oral language actually develops.
Add physical materials and the curriculum becomes the most comprehensive version of the program. Students work with game pieces and team challenges they can hold, write in their own journals, and teachers lead from a printed guide.
Hear firsthand how the Human Skills Curriculum is shaping classrooms.
Book a demo and we will walk you through a full learning experience, show you the scope and sequence for your grade bands, and talk through what implementation looks like in your district.