Discover the new updated & expanded Superflex Series
Hooray! The new updated and expanded 2nd edition of the Superflex® Curriculum and storybook have just been published!
If you’re looking for a highly engaging social learning curriculum that teaches social observation, social awareness, perspective taking, flexible thinking, and self-regulation, you’ve come to the right place! Our best-selling Superflex Series is where to start to help children ages 5-10+ learn how to make sense of our complex social world and then figure out how to best navigate within it to meet their social goals.
The Superflex Series features two fun, cohesive curricula & supplementary materials for teaching social communication and problem solving to children in K-5 classrooms and other instructional tiers. Students first learn how to become Social Detectives who observe what’s going on around them, read social situations, and interpret clues. They then learn about flexible thinking and self-regulation through Superflex, our very popular motivational tool that empowers them to explore their social strengths and challenges and learn strategies for adapting more flexibly to social situations and taking control of their thinking to manage their challenges to meet their goals.
To help you teach your students foundational social, emotional, and academic learning (SEAL), begin with the first book of the series, You Are a Social Detective! and its companion Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide, an easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. Its10 fun, structured lesson plans and visual tools support building students’ social attention, social interpretation, and self-awareness. Next, students are ready to learn how to activate their superpowers of flexibility, self-awareness, executive functions, self-regulation, and more with lessons from the Superflex Academy! The new updated and expanded Superflex 2nd Edition Kit: Curriculum, Storybook, and Visuals has undergone extensive updates and changes. It now features inclusive images, neurodiversity-friendly language, new Superflexes, revised Thinkable & UnthinkaBot characters, Bot powers, visual supports, step-by-step lessons, teaching PowerPoints, and much more.
Explore below our award-winning print products, discounted product bundles, online training, and free stuff to supplement teaching the Superflex Series in your school, home, community, or clinic.
Classroom Teaching Example
In this short 10-minute video, Ann, a 3rd grade teacher, provides a real-life classroom example of how to teach Lesson #3: Clue Collector Club from our You Are a Social Detective Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide. Watch Ann teach her students how Social Detectives use the situation (place + people + what’s happening) to collect clues and create their own social magnifying glass.
Help your students become Social Detectives with this easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day.
Free Stuff to Support Lesson 3 Teaching Example
Start with Social Detective to build the foundation for social learning
After setting the foundation, introduce the Superflex Curriculum to teach about self-regulation toward behavior change (save 10% on bundles)
Use these storybooks, games & visual supports in any order with your students after working through the Superflex Curriculum
Free Webinars—Learn Essential Social Thinking Concepts for Free
Free Articles
Free Thinksheets
Strategies to Build Social Competencies
The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people ages four through adult develop their social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving to meet their own social goals and improve:
- Conversation & social connection
- Executive functioning
- Friendship & relationship development
- Perspective taking
- Self-regulation
- Social Thinking Vocabulary