What we teach is important.
How we teach is powerful.
A Social Emotional Neuroaffirming Curriculum
Why we developed Social Stencil
Our vision is for all young people to have the practical skills and insights to manage peer relationships, and to be good social citizens through understanding and embracing the unique differences of themselves and others.
Our mission is to equip classrooms with an evidence based neurodiversity affirming program that teaches practical social concepts and strategies, to build peer relationship skills, and a culture of respect, understanding, care and collaboration.
Social Stencil provides:
An Australian evidence-based program that is fun and sparks curiosity
Social Stencil is designed for facilitators to deliver in classrooms for grades 3 - 6, small groups from grade 3-9 or as part of an individualised counselling and support program.
This is a 12-18 week program.
Online self-directed portal includes and materials, training videos and step-by-step lesson plans.
Social Stencil supports you to develop a shared language and shared concepts to support friendships, management of conflict, and understand of ourselves and others.
When used as a Tier 1 or Tier 2 program, Social Stencil helps to develop a classroom culture of respect and care with peer-to-peer learning, group work, whole class games and supported whole class discussions about our collective strengths and differences.
How to become a social stencil facilitator?
It’s easy – if you're an educator, clinician, or educational / clinical assistant, start the self-directed training via the portal and share Social Stencil with the young people you support.
Independent evaluations highlight:
• Improved behaviour;
• Increased attendance;
• Improved confidence;
• Improved problem solving and de-escalation;
• Improved self-talk for self-help;
• Improved acceptance;
• Improved relationships and peer connections; and
• Improved mental health and wellbeing.
What we teach is important. how we teach is powerful
What we teach is important…
The Social Stencil program is intentionally sequenced to map to the social cognitive processes identified by the Social Information Processing Model (SIP model, Crick and Dodge, 1994) in collaboration with a neuroaffirming perspective.
The SIP model is an evidence-based theory for understanding social cognitive processing steps that support social interactions and we acknowledge that neurodivergent individuals might not naturally engage with the same six social cognitive processing steps, and so, their social style and preferences might differ. Let’s learn about all of the variations that make up our beautiful world, understand one another, explore social strategies together, and build a collaborative, supportive classroom, school community and community at large.
How we teach is powerful…
The pedagogy underpinning the Social Stencil program is student centre - teacher guided, and influenced by arts education.
Each session is characterised by a facilitator initiated question, whole class discussion whereby the facilitator can model acceptance of ideas, and respectful communication, followed by a whole group game or small group activities to unpack the themes discussed.
This program structure provides consistent opportunities for peer to peer learning, sharing of insights between peers, opportunities to immediately apply and experience the social skills and strategies learnt, and a positive, safe, creative space to build skills together.
During Social Stencil, all students of all ability levels feel curious to learn, successful, heard and safe to try new things.
Online lesson plans and e-resource Portal
Educators and Clinicians are supported to run the program via a self-paced portal with lesson plans, video models and downloadable material for the classroom.
The online training provides 11 hours of professional development, with a certificate of certification at completion. Jump straight in!