Social Emotional Learning
Real Tools for Emotional Growth and Success
The Own It!™ Youth Empowerment Course provides schools with a digital learning solution to help students develop the skills and resiliency to feel better, accomplish more, and create the life they want.

To Empower Every Student
Own It ™ Course Details
Building Resilient, Capable Learners
Each eCourse lesson contains required instruction mastery in a wide range of modalities, ensuring that students can engage with the curriculum through text, audio, video, and interactive practice. If this mastery is not met, each eCourse is equipped with responsive instruction in order to ensure each student reaches mastery of the content. This approach develops critical reading, writing and communication skills that are a key to future success. Additionally, self-motivated students can work independently to explore lesson content in more detail. This course type is ideal for the college-bound student.
Through an interactive and engaging, 10-module course, students will:
- Learn how to recognize and process their emotions
- Develop empathy and understanding
- Identify their strengths and abilities
- Use goal-setting and visualization to achieve dreams
- Overcome negative self-talk and mental barriers
- Learn how to apply problem solving strategies in their life
- Discover how they learn and study best
- And much more.
What to Expect
Own It™ Curriculum Overview
Social-Emotional Growth Starts Here
The Own It!™ course addresses the well-rounded, foundational social-emotional needs that each student has. It also provides practical success strategies to foster life skills that help students build their own future - and thrive!
Mind Management
- Mindfulness and self-awareness
- Connection between thoughts and outcomes
- Taking ownership and accountability
- Recognizing and resetting presets
- Overcoming negative self-talk, mental barriers, and victim thinking
- Improving thought process
- Using visioneering to achieve lofty goals
- Developing persistence and mental resilience
Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional health and self-awareness
- Managing emotions through thought control
- Making connections and sharing feelings
- Expressing emotional needs
- Dealing with fear and uncertainty
- Showing empathy
- Gaining and giving emotional support
Stand-Alone or Supplement
The Perfect SEL Solution
Administrators use Own It!™
- In conjunction with the enrollment process.
- As advisory support curriculum.
- As a framework to support college and career readiness.
- As a first-tier intervention approach in an RTI model and as a wraparound service.

Own It™ Alignment
- Aligned to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Framework (CASEL 5)
- Aligned to the SEL Competencies and Guidelines provided through the Every Student Succeeds Act
- Based upon the research of the Gates Foundation, Next Gen Tools, the Carnegie Foundation and Dr. Dennis Deaton, and The Ownership Spirit
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Self-Awareness
The abilities to understand one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior across contexts. This includes capacities to recognize one’s strengths and limitations with a well-grounded sense of confidence and purpose. Such as:
- Integrating personal and social identities
- Identifying personal, cultural, and linguistic assets
- Identifying one’s emotions
- Demonstrating honesty and integrity
- Linking feelings, values, and thoughts
- Examining prejudices and biases
- Experiencing self-efficacy
- Having a growth mindset
- Developing interests and a sense of purpose
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Self-Management
The ability to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations. This includes the capacities to delay gratification, manage stress, and feel motivation & agency to accomplish personal/collective goals, such as:
- Managing one’s emotions
- Identifying and using stress-management strategies
- Exhibiting self-discipline and self-motivation
- Setting personal and collective goals
- Using planning and organizational skills
- Showing the courage to take initiative
- Demonstrating personal and collective agency
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Social Awareness
The abilities to understand the perspectives of and empathize with others, including those from diverse backgrounds, cultures, & contexts. This includes the capacities to feel compassion for others, understand broader historical and social norms for behavior in different settings, and recognize family, school, and community resources and supports, such as:
- Taking others’ perspectives
- Recognizing strengths in others
- Demonstrating empathy and compassion
- Showing concern for the feelings of others
- Understanding and expressing gratitude
- Identifying diverse social norms, including unjust ones
- Recognizing situational demands and opportunities
- Understanding the influences of organizations/systems on behavior
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Relationship Skills
The abilities to establish and maintain healthy and supportive relationships and to effectively navigate settings with diverse individuals and groups. This includes the capacities to communicate clearly, listen actively, cooperate, work collaboratively to problem solve and negotiate conflict constructively, navigate settings with differing social and cultural demands and opportunities, provide leadership, and seek or offer help when needed, such as:
- Communicating effectively
- Developing positive relationships
- Demonstrating cultural competency
- Practicing teamwork and collaborative problem-solving
- Resolving conflicts constructively
- Resisting negative social pressure
- Showing leadership in groups
- Seeking or offering support and help when needed
- Standing up for the rights of others
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Responsible Decision Making
The ability to make caring and constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions across diverse situations. This includes the capacities to consider ethical standards and safety concerns and to evaluate the benefits and consequences of various actions for personal, social, and collective well-being, such as:
- Demonstrating curiosity and open-mindedness
- Identifying solutions for personal and social problems
- Learning to make a reasoned judgment after analyzing information, data, facts
- Anticipating and evaluating the consequences of one’s actions
- Recognizing how critical thinking skills are useful both inside & outside of school
- Reflecting on one’s role to promote personal, family, and community well-being
- Evaluating personal, interpersonal, community, and institutional impacts
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Own It™
Course Structure
The course includes ten interactive, video-based modules within a user-friendly platform. As students progress, a personalized profile report is automatically generated, highlighting their strengths, interests, learning preferences, and career goals.
Individual Student Profiles
Six sections: career, learning, personality, emotions, ownership, goals
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Interactive Modules
Students experience a range of interactive elements throughout the course
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Real-life Video Scenarios
Students learn through valuable real-life situations
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Survey Outcomes
50,000 Student Users Surveyed
Feedback from students influences course content and profiles.
Completion of the Own It!™ curriculum has been shown to positively affect students and result in improved academic outcomes.
Reported feeling more confident in daily situations
Recognized they are in better control of their future
Felt more motivated to accomplish their goals
Youth organizations and school partners
Proven Results. Real Feedback.
What Students Are Saying
Hear from students, educators, and district leaders about their experiences with Own It™
“This course was able to open up my mind more on the way I see things and also in the way I can accomplish things.”
“I learned that I can do anything I set my mind to and I can be a more positive person.”
“The only way to be successful is to own who you are, mistakes and all.”

Support For Teachers
Personal Profile Reports
We help teachers personalize learning for their students
- Teachers get to know their students and build relationships more quickly
- Support emotional health of students through discussions about emotions, empathy and support for feelings
- Students gain confidence and become better advocates for themselves
- Support a culture of ownership and accountability in the classroom
Support for Administrators
Student and Cohort Progress Tracking Data
- A culture of ownership increased ROI
- Students who completed the Mindset Training and Profile ranked higher in attendance, on-time course completion, and retention compared to baseline averages

Learn More
View Own It™ in our Course Catalog
Each participant in the course will develop several effective strategies and competencies in both Mind Management and Emotional Intelligence and ultimately learn to take responsibility for creating the future they want for themselves.
Additional Resources
Harris Digital Learning Blog Articles on SEL
From the Blog: SEL Tools and Techniques
With a number of blog posts covering mental health literacy, trauma-informed classroom strategies, enhancing SEL with digital tools, and more, Harris Digital Learning has additional resources to support administrators and teachers as they work to address students’ social-emotional development.
2 min read
5 Tips for Teaching Self-Awareness and Rethinking Priorities
Sep 14, 2021 by Guest Contributor
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