The My Guide Inside (MGI) Pre K-12 comprehensive curriculum points the way to wholeness, happiness, creativity and well-being in all parts of life.
Regardless of where you are located in the world, MGI supports inclusion and meets selected requirements for Language Arts, Careers, Health and Life Skills Education. MGI for credit can be infused as part of an existing class or offered as an independent course.
Globally applicable objectives include:
1. Enhancing students' personal well-being with an understanding of basic principles.
2. Simultaneously developing your education curriculum with 21st Century Competencies in Communication, Thinking, Personal and Social Awareness and Responsibility. See:
My Guide Inside, in all formats, is readily available, and provides cutting edge new knowledge for both students and educators. MGI lessons flexibly align with many subject areas. Student assignment submission, pre/post assessments and observation tools are user friendly. Resources for students and professional support are provided.
MGI Principles
MGI teaches three basic principles operating in all people regardless of age. The MGI stories focus on students discovering their own well-being and understanding how they operate from the inside out.
This naturally enhances student mental health, and strengthens academic skills and competencies. In educational terms, when there is an understanding, the learners “own” the knowledge and can use it for their lifelong benefit.
As children and youth learn about the principles behind their inner wisdom, well-being and resilience, it creates a healthy direction for their lives. Gaining an understanding of the MGI foundational principles creates consistently positive results. Educators and parents also benefit. MGI Teacher Manuals and Professional Development opportunities support educators in learning, living and then easily sharing these principles with students.
MGI Provincial Curriculum Compliance
Every country has required standards for school curriculum. The following chart demonstrates how My Guide Inside is designed to meet expectations in British Columbia, Canada. This sample is globally adaptable. See:
MGI Student Outcomes
Solid student outcomes are achieved as MGI carefully aligns educational guidelines grounded in research and educational practice. The outcomes have been documented in this official secondary student focus group conducted by the National Resilience Resource Center.
These teens from Gulf Islands Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, piloted the MGI course. See the full length "Focus Group Experiences with My Guide Inside at Gulf Islands Secondary School" at https://www.nationalresilienceresource.com/Educator-Preparation.html video #17
Students from Brish Columbia discuss learning MGI principles in 2018 and three years later in 2021 report their pandemic experiences. These student reports provide hope that there is a path to well-being even in challenging times.
Marshall, K. (2023). My Guide Inside 2018 and 2021 Focus Groups: Retrospective Report. https://www.nationalresilienceresource.com/Education/MGI_Focus_Groups_Retrospective_Evaluation_Report_10_21_2023.pdf
Development of MGI
In 2015 the National Resilience Resource Center (NRRC) Director Kathy Marshall Emerson issued a global call for creation of a comprehensive Pre K-12 Principles-based school curriculum. She saw the need for a Three Principles curriculum aligned with official education policy globally. Christa Campsall answered the call. Throughout her career, Christa had consistently achieved positive results sharing the Principles with her own students. Christa committed to developing My Guide Inside. Kathy joined her as co-author of five of the seven MGI books. Christa and Jane Tucker authored the remaining books. MGI products are continually enhanced, updated and disseminated more broadly. The curriculum is designed to innovatively meet government education guidelines. MGI is also guided by resilience and educational research with leadership from NRRC. This definition of resilience is used.
“We define resilience as our natural, innate capacity to navigate life successfully. The opportunity to learn how we operate makes a critical difference whether one realizes resilience or not.” K. Marshall Emerson, NRRC, 2015, Pathways to Resilience III Conference, Halifax.
This book chapter explores the research foundation for MGI.:
Marshall K. (2021) Discovering Resilience and Well-being in School Communities. In: Nabors L. (eds) Resilient Children. Springer Series on Child and Family Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81728-2_5
Read free: Chapter link
For additional information and publications see: National Resilience Resource Center.
"We are grateful to the many, many people of goodwill and expertise who have assisted in a multitude of ways making My Guide Inside available to the educators and students of the world."
-- The Authors