A “jewel” of a resource for teachers and counselors alike
By Kristin Clark Taylor
Go Ahead! Open the Lid!
There’s a treasure chest at Treasure Hills Elementary.
Jessica Vigstol should know. She opens its lid every single day.
And what she finds are jewels … in the form of tools.
Vigstol, a school counselor at Treasure Hills, says she’s come to rely on these tools as a primary resource in her classroom, and she’s thrilled beyond measure that they all happen to come from the same source.
What source is this, you might ask?
The answer is easy:
It’s QuaverReady!
Inside this flexible Pre-K-8 curriculum are ready-made lessons, animated songs, worksheets, coloring pages, and much, much more, all of it carefully designed to support students’ academic and personal growth in amazing ways.
Vigstol says that finding QuaverReady was a real game-changer.
“I’d never seen anything like it!” she says with genuine excitement.
“Nobody else was doing it this way. Not even close.”
In her school district, she says, “We are focused on both the academic and emotional intelligence of our students.”
This includes an emphasis on self-awareness, self-management, empathy, responsibility, and the development of readiness skills.
Vigstol is grateful that QuaverReady shares this same focus – and that the lessons are designed to align with pre-existing requirements to which the district must adhere.
“The fact that the lessons are standards-aligned is a huge help to educators,” she says. “When I reach for a lesson, I know that I’m getting everything that I need.”
Indeed, educators across the USA are reaching for QuaverReady and finding exactly what they need.
Ready to open the lid? Click the arrow below and take a peek at what lies inside …
QuaverReady is far more than just a curriculum. It’s a comprehensive solution for building student success that adapts to meet the needs of students, teachers, and counselors.
Growing Together
Although Vigstol’s “why-I-love-QuaverReady” list is impressive in length, she makes a point to highlight another feature she finds extremely useful as an elementary counselor.
The fact that QuaverReady’s content is carefully designed to grow in sophistication as the student matures is “a real plus,” she says.
“The lessons grow right along with the kids.”
Having the songs, the discussion points, and the worksheets align with a student’s varying stages of natural development helps facilitate the learning process and creates a sense of continuity.
“The lessons grow right along with the kids,” she says, which makes their growth, their progress, and their understanding of the concepts more easily measurable.
She describes the trajectory:
“As a child gets older, they come to understand concepts like self-awareness, self-management, and empathy more fully, because they’re beginning to experience it themselves,” she says.
She’s grateful that QuaverReady accompanies students on this journey, building important foundational skills as the student progresses.
Quite often, though, Vigstol says that her older students will ask for song or lesson from the lower grades, a happy reminder that the curriculum is also ageless in its appeal.
“Everybody likes The Empathy Song and Anger’s Not the Boss of Me,” she says with a smile in her voice.
Accessible to All … Always
The fact that QuaverReady is so easily accessible is a huge benefit to educators and, ultimately, to students as well.
Vigstol appreciates both perspectives.
“As a counselor, being able to access any lesson I need — whether it’s a classroom exercise or an unanticipated intervention — is very important,” she says. “Quaver makes it all available.”
“I’ve had teachers say, ‘I’m sending over a student who just lost a parent,’ and I have to make sure that student feels seen and heard when they walk through my door,” she says.
For more information on how to get Quaver into your school, visit QuaverEd.com/Ready.
Kristin Clark Taylor is an author and a journalist.
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