Program Description

"Feel Your Best Self (FYBS) is an award-winning toolkit that brings credibility, accessibility, creativity, and joy to learning emotion-coping strategies. FYBS follows three puppet kids - Nico, CJ, & Mena - as they navigate everyday issues and help each other work through big feelings using different emotion-coping strategies. Explore together – right along with them – to find those that work best through our materials, such as videos, tip sheets, and storybooks."

Cost

A full FYBS facilitator bundle is available for purchase for $299. Additional storybooks, posters, coloring pages, and reflection journals are available for purchase. Free downloads of some supplemental materials are available.

Intended Population

• Core

Grade

• Pre-K
• Elementary School

Intended Group Size

• Any

ELL/DLL

• Full

Multisensory Applications

• Yes

Delivery Method

• Hybrid / blended delivery

Scripted

• Instructor Scripted

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Skill Specific

Placement Tests

• No

Accelerated Learning

• No

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• Yes

Error Correction Built In

• Unspecified

Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher

• Yes

Research Summary

Two peer-reviewed studies focused on the implementation and usability of Feel Your Best Self. Early adapters of the intervention found the program to be flexible as they could adjust instructional strategies to ensure developmental appropriateness and increased access to the FYBS curriculum (Koslouski et al., 2024). Users of FYBS also found the program to be usable, easy to implement, and effective (Lovino et al., 2024). Further research on the efficacy of the program was not found. Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to support the efficacy of this program at this time.

Study Citations

Koslouski, J. B., Iovino, E. A., & Chafouleas, S. M. (2024). Feel Your Best Self: Insights from elementary teachers use in teaching emotion-focused coping strategies. Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sel.2024.100037

Lovino, E. A., Chafouleas, S. M., Torres, R. C., & Weiner, M. A. (2024, June). A mixed methods evaluation of the usability of Feel Your Best Self. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 9, p. 1400002). Frontiers Media SA.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Insufficient evidence

Additional Reviews

• https://www.edutopia.org/video/express-emotions-puppets-elementary-students