Self-awareness
Students explore emotions, preferences, strengths, support needs, identity, and self-advocacy.
Relationships, regulation & leisure
Students learn about themselves, other people, and their place in the community.
Connection and regulation make learning possible. Friendship, self-advocacy, leisure, recreation, and contribution make life meaningful.
Social participation
Students practice noticing and responding, joining activities, waiting, taking turns, cooperating, setting boundaries, and building friendships.
Regulation
MindUP supports mindfulness, brain awareness, emotional vocabulary, attention, empathy, and individualized strategies.
MindUP ↗Behavior support
Behavior is understood as communication. Staff notice, check contributing factors, regulate, relate, teach, repair, and review.
Brooks Response Sequence →Leisure and recreation
Students explore sports, dance, gaming, art, music, nature, hobbies, relaxation, and lifelong interests.
Unified Community
Clubs, leadership, service, family events, and Friday activities create authentic places to participate and belong.
Explore Unified Community →Regulate. Relate. Reason.
Learning grows through safe relationships.
Adults begin by helping students feel safe and regulated, then build connection, and only then ask for complex thinking or new learning. Regulation supports relationships; relationships support learning; and successful learning builds confidence and regulation.
Explore Regulation Supports Learning