Our Curriculum

The mission of Casey’s Clubhouse™ is to offer a holistic, CASEL-aligned integrated curriculum and support materials that make real differences in the lives of children and families, using Best Practices as our guide. We use a combination of research and technology, and pull from psychology and neuroscience as we look to support a whole mind-body system rather than just pieces and parts.

We teach 6 SECTIONS of skills...

Regulation

The ability to monitor and manage your energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors based on the environment, people, and objects in your surroundings, leading to greater self-control.

Awareness

 The ability to notice what's going on outside and inside of you. Awareness of factors like the environment and people around you, as well as your energy and how you feel, help you better direct your intentions and author your life.

Determination

The ability to focus your energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors toward a certain goal while facing both the comfortable and uncomfortable, exciting and boring, and positive and negative sides of the journey.

Problem-Solving

 The ability to react and respond to problems by way of calmly assessing and applying fair solutions, using effective communication and cooperation.

Confidence

The ability to rely on, trust, and believe in yourself and your power in your life and in this world. This sureness leads to greater assertion for yourself and empathy for others. Confidence is the ability to rely on, trust, and believe in others, too.

Mastery

The dedication to learn, practice, and perform something so confidently that you can teach another. It is an ongoing practice rather than a goal to achieve.

Explored through 6 CONCEPTS...

SCALE-ING

We use the idea of scales to learn how to balance our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. We introduce an acronym called SCALE to help kids regulate with the steps: Stop, Calculate, Act, Listen, and Evaluate. 

AUTHORING

We use the idea of writing, narrating, and creating our own story to learn how to increase our awareness and "edit" our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

TWO SIDES

We use the idea of a two-sided coin to think about how our determination is affected by positive and negative factors and how that connection changes our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

FOUR-SQUARE

We use the idea of four-square, a familiar children's game, to show how small and big problems interact with frequency to define a problem and lead us to solutions for our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

BILL OF RIGHTS

We use the idea of our bill of rights to better understand both our rights and responsibilities in friendship so we can gain the confidence we need to expect and deliver fair interactions, while balancing our energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

YOU TEACH ME

We use the idea of You Teach Me as we close out the year to encourage club members to teach us their best understanding of lessons involving interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

...Guided by 5 PILLARS of learning.


Five rotating approaches are woven into the curriculum to integrate a varied learning experience and reach all types of learners. These approaches reflect the process of how people grow and change.
ME
How does this section and lesson relate to me as a unique individual?

For example, My personality is continuing to develop but my talents, limitations, and my preferences affect my mastery. 
ENERGY
How does this section and lesson relate to my body’s energy?
 
For example,
My awareness skills are influenced by my energy. If my scale tends towards high or low energy, then these skills could really help me!
EMOTION
How does this section and lesson relate to my feelings?

For example, My determination skills are affected by my fear, anger, and happiness.
THOUGHTs
How does this section and lesson relate to my thoughts?

For example,
My problem-solving skills are prompted by my self-talk.
BEHAVIOR
How does this section and lesson relate to my actions?

For example,
My social confidence is realized partly through my social risk taking.
the overview

30 Stories, 30 Lessons, and 30 Home Activities

Every week, students watch a story from Casey's Adventures, followed by a guided animated lesson. Students get a home activity to help reinforce what they learned and introduce these incredible skills to their family! Our curriculum is chock-full with extras like in-class or family activities, coloring pages, posters, and more!
  • CHAPTER STORIES
    Our animated series called Casey's Adventures follows the life of Casey, a 4th-grade boy who overcomes social challenges like making friends, building confidence before social events, problem-solving with friends, and handling bullying. 
  • LESSONS
    The weekly animated lesson breaks down each corresponding chapter and teaches the skills that Casey himself learns and practices! Casey provides an example of the topic by demonstrating how it applies to the real world.
  • HOME ACTIVITIES 
    A worksheet-style activity is sent home with each student to reinforce what was learned in the lesson. These home activities encourage students to include family members in their journey and share what Casey learned that week!
the star of our series:

Meet Casey!

Casey is a 4th-grade student who loves playing make-believe, reading comics, and being a good friend. But like a lot of kids his age, he feels nervous when it comes to making new friends and being in new social situations. 

Casey seeks out the wisdom of his parents, friends, and other adult helpers to get him through his most difficult moments. During his adventures, he also learns to use his own wisdom to come up with his own solutions and help his friends with their challenges.
the voice of the series:

Laura Schneider, LMHC

Just like a story told around the campfire, or a book read before bedtime, Laura Schneider is the sole narrator behind Casey's Adventures. Her narration creates a comfortable and familiar space to welcome kids back to every new chapter.

She also happens to be the creator of Casey's Clubhouse and all of its beloved characters.   

Meet the Founders

Laura Schneider, LMHC
Founder / Author / Narrator

Laura Schneider is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist in the state of Washington. She has been working as a mental health counselor since 1993, helping children, adolescents, and adults find balance, gain perspective, and learn effective skills to address life's challenges. In 2019, Laura retired from her private practice to focus full-time on Casey's Clubhouse. 

Laura has been working with Leslie Fields on social skills groups since 2005. She believes that social-emotional skills are essential human skills and are best received in childhood, although accessible to all ages and stages. 

Her goal now is to develop Casey's Clubhouse curriculum for professionals to use the curriculum both therapeutically and educationally. Laura also teaches parenting classes and consults with parents on effective parenting skills. 

In addition to her work, Laura is married and as two children and two step-children who are all grown up! She loves to write, paint, draw, and travel. 
Leslie Fields, LMHC
Founder

Leslie Fields currently works as a counselor in private practice for children, tweens, and parents. She is a Sandplay Practitioner, STA. Her passion as been to improve and enhance children's social experiences. 

She worked with Terri Hollingsworth, LICSW, for 18 years as co-leader of Wally's Club. She then opened Wally's Club Eastside with Laura Schneider, LMHC, in 2005. 

Together they developed their own social skills curriculum, workbook, and training program for Casey's Clubhouse.

In addition to her career, Ms. Fields is married and is a step-mom and grandmother. She loves her dog Mulligan, who is a Reading with Rover volunteer dog. She loves to play tennis, dance, drum, and travel. 
Rachel Janis Doerflinger, BA
Creative Director

     Rachel Janis Doerflinger holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Knox College in Illinois. She has been working since 2019 to help her mother-in-law, Laura Schneider, establish a new and contemporary creative direction for the Casey's Clubhouse brand. 

She worked alongside Laura to create character rigs and animate the curriculum, lending her innovative eye for detail and organization to make the curriculum feel consistent and modern. She also writes web content, creates graphics, and polishes the look of the website. 

When she's not working, Rachel loves writing poetry, making art, eating sushi, and spending time with her wife, calico cat, and doodle pup!
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30 stories
30 lessons
30 home activities

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