Get Your Students Unstuck and On Target!
In an era that requires flexibility, emotional regulation, persistence, and organization, strengthening students’ executive function skills is one of the most important things teachers can do to help students succeed.
Your school’s solution: the proven Unstuck and On Target! curricula.
Developed for learners on the autism spectrum but ideal for any student who struggles with executive function, Unstuck boosts key skills through ready-to-use, field-tested lessons that make learning fun. Through catchy scripts, visuals, role-plays, and positive reinforcement, the small-group Unstuck lessons keep students engaged as they learn and practice new skills.
Unstuck provides a systematic action plan for teaching students the critical skills, key strategies, and specific routines they will need to confront and overcome many of school’s social and academic challenges.”—Nancy Mather, Ph.D., University of Arizona
Invest in Unstuck and start improving outcomes for your students!
Why Get Unstuck?
Used in schools across the country, Unstuck and On Target:
- Dismantles obstacles to student success. Unstuck directly addresses problems with executive function skills like flexibility and goal-directed behavior, breaking down a major obstacle to success in school and in life.
- Has a proven track record. The authors tested Unstuck in diverse Title I elementary schools. Unstuck worked well in improving students’ classroom behaviors, and these improvements were maintained one year later!
- Is easy and flexible to use. Unstuck can be implemented in a variety of settings, with any class, by any teacher, and using items you likely have in your classroom already.
- Saves teachers time in the long run. The developers say: “If we dedicate the time to teaching Unstuck, not only will our students learn valuable life skills…we will gain back a good portion of the time that was being dedicated to redirecting and managing behavior.”
- Gets parents involved in strengthening their child’s skills. Unstuck keeps the home-school connection strong with “home extension” handouts for families, full of concrete ideas for using Unstuck strategies.
In interviews, students spoke highly about the changes Unstuck has helped them implement. One student cited the benefits of “being able to have multiple plans because if I don’t have multiple plans I get stuck. If I have multiple plans I can get a little of what I want, rather than not at all. In most situations that’s better.”
Another student said this after learning the Unstuck approaches: “When I get really mad at a teacher or friend, I try to think about is it really necessary to get mad. I try to stay calm and be flexible and cope with what is going on.”
Unstuck and on Target! does a remarkable job of translating complex ideas and abstract terminology into concepts and language that make sense to children.”—Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP, co-author of Smart but Scattered
About the Team
A team of teachers, psychologists, occupational therapists, parents, and students were involved in the development of Unstuck. Click the developers’ names to read their bios!
Online Training and Parent Videos
New to Unstuck? Check out the online Elementary Educator Training— interactive, engaging modules that fit easily into your busy schedule! And with the parent video series developed to complement Unstuck, you can offer families simple steps to support children with executive function challenges.
LEARN MORE about Unstuck and On Target!
Get a Free Sample
Preview a sample Unstuck lesson! Just fill out this quick form to unlock access to your free sample.
Watch a Webinar
View a recorded webinar presented by co-developers Lynn Cannon, M.Ed., and Lauren Kenworthy, Ph.D.
Review the Benefits
Read this article with the Top 5 Reasons to Get Unstuck, and share it with other educators.
Contact Your Rep
Have more questions? Looking to adopt Unstuck across a whole state or district? Contact your sales rep!
