Dear principals, teachers, and educators,
We know that as educators, you want your students to understand that they can overcome obstacles and grow from challenges. The YET! Program offers an online social and emotional learning (SEL) option designed to help elementary students navigate difficult things and develop growth mindsets. The YET! Program introduces students to a growth mindset in a fun and powerful way, like through the power of saying “yet!” The YET! program makes growth mindset easy to understand and exciting to apply in and out of school.
The YET! Program was designed by a team from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is grounded in research on growth mindset, self-talk, self-regulation, and resilience. This 7-video series is designed to help students reframe perceived failures as setbacks, obstacles as challenges, and to value the importance of effort and reflection as pathways to steady growth.
The YET! Program is free and the online videos and activities can be easily integrated into your SEL curriculum.
- 7 lessons cover growth mindset topics, including:
- overcoming negative self-talk (stinkin’ thinkin’),
- setting goals,
- creating action plans for reaching goals, and
- normalizing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
- Each lesson includes 1 video and 1 activity.
Access to the lessons is easy and online support from our team is available.
The program is self-guided, flexible, and can be adapted to classroom schedules or teachers’ timelines. Each lesson is designed to take about 25-30 minutes and builds on the previous lesson. Videos can be watched as a class or individually. Activities can be completed after the video and offer students a chance for students to practice and apply what they just learned. All materials include Spanish translation.
We designed the YET! Program to make it easy for you to introduce your students to a growth mindset while adding as little work for you as possible. The program is ideal for Title 1 schools, but is designed so all elementary students will benefit from the lessons! Click here to check out a summary of our lessons or access the lessons here.
Thank you for all the work you do and for taking the time to learn more about the YET! Program!
Dr. Sandy Rogelberg
Educational Psychologist | Reading and Elementary Education | University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Contact: theyetprogram@gmail.com