Learning to Move Forward: Restoring Trust: A Social-Emotional Curriculum for Reflection, Responsibility, and Repair
Help Students Rebuild from the Inside Out
Restoring Trust tackles one of the most urgent and overlooked barriers to learning in special education: readiness. Many students enter school environments burdened by trauma, mistrust, and years of academic failure. Before learning can happen, trust must be restored.This book provides that foundation-through engaging stories, reflective activities, and structured routines that guide students toward responsibility and emotional growth.
Format: PDF
ISBN 978-1-955506-09-0
Publication Date August 2025
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Learning to Move Forward: Restoring Trust
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Teachers Guide sample here
Student Guide sample here
Designed for Learning Readiness
Students can't learn when they don't feel emotionally safe. This book helps students recognize their behaviors, understand the impact on others, and practice rebuilding broken relationships-all critical steps in becoming ready to learn.Standards-Based Curriculum - Academic + SEL
Every activity aligns with both Common Core ELA standards and the CASEL SEL competencies, offering real academic and emotional skill-building. Standards addressed include:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 / 5.3 - Describe how characters in a story respond to challenges.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1 / 5.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when drawing inferences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1 / 5.1 - Write opinion pieces supporting a point of view with reasons.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1 / 5.1 - Engage effectively in collaborative discussions.
Built for Special Education
With a gentle tone, predictable structure, and trauma-informed pacing, this book is ideal for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, autism, ADHD, and other learning differences. Activities meet students where they are-academically, emotionally, and socially.
Unique Features Inside:
-Relatable short stories with social dilemmas
-Reflection questions and sentence starters
-Accountability routines
- Restorative letter templates
- Visuals and symbols to support non-readers and emergent writers
- Activities designed for one-on-one, small group, or classroom use
Reading Level: Grades 4–6Special education teachers, school counselors, social workers, behavior specialists, SEL leaders, and anyone supporting students in therapeutic or self-contained settings.
- Flexible and Modular
Use across weeks or embed into daily check-ins, writing time, SEL blocks, or pull-out counseling.
The curriculum comes with the teacher's guide and student workbook. This book is PDF fillable to accomodate all learners.