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About

• What is Making Choices?
• Problem-Solving Steps
• The Staircase Model
• Old Turtle's Secret

Publications

• The Making Choices Book
• Aggressive Behavior
• The MC Program
• The MC Evaluation
• Selected Bibliography

Presentations

Sample Lessons

• Kindergarten
• Grade 1
• Grade 2
• Grade 3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5

Staff

The Making Choices curriculum presents a series of cognitive problem-solving lessons intended to broaden children’s social knowledge and skills for successfully interacting with peers and adults. Designed as a school-based or small group intervention for students in kindergarten through fifth grades, Making Choices is appropriate for all children, including children who may be impulsive, defiant, or aggressive.

"I feel great about Making Choices. We learn about feelings and how to work out our problems. Sometimes we get celebrations! If you were in my class you would love Making Choices because it's great!"

The development of the Making Choices program was sponsored, in part, by grants and contracts from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Foundation for the Carolinas, the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse, the North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21DA13874), and the Institute of Education Sciences (R305L030162).