Al’s Pals is a nationally recognized, evidence-based social–emotional learning curriculum designed for children ages 3 to 6. This comprehensive curriculum empowers young children to learn how to make healthy decisions, resolve conflicts, manage their feelings, and build positive relationships. Educators who implement Al’s Pals can build a nurturing classroom environment with activities such as lessons that facilitate large-group interactive discussions and problem-solving experiences, original songs that reinforce lessons and core concepts, and puppets and puppet scripts to engage preschool children.
Our SEL curriculum for preschool is aligned to early learning guidelines in each state and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, so you can demonstrate that your program is meeting all requirements while focusing on the needs of individual children.
Al’s Pals is one of the only SEL curricula that has been investigated using rigorous methodologies and found to have a positive impact on social-emotional competence and coping skills.
In-depth, skill-building, and collaborative professional development is at the core of Al’s Pals and provides educators with the skills, tools, and strategies they need to promote positive SEL development.
Al’s Pals was developed with research from cross-cultural studies on risk, protective factors, and resiliency to identify the types of classroom strategies that truly have an impact on children’s lives.