Raising kids to have good heads & hearts
The data proves it
Emotional Intelligence skills are a kid’s best chance for success in:
- School
- Careers & Life
- Relationships
what kids
learn
- Set goals and work towards them
- Approach challenges with optimism
- Believe in themselves & their abilities
how schools
benefit
- Far better grades and grad rates
- Become safer, happier communities
- Discipline incidents plummet
we all
benefit
- More productive workforce
- More mentally healthy people
- Less poverty, crime, violence
75% of preK-12 US students have no access to comprehensive school SEL
It's our mission to change that, with parents and businesses as allies.
Parents
Tell your school officials you want your children in SEL classes for their best shot to succeed in every aspect of life. Bring EQ into your home. You and your children can learn effective ways of relating to yourselves and others. Click below for guidance.
Businesses
78 million parents are available to pay brand attention if you help them get EQ life skills in their schools the way Biz supported STEM. And you’ll gain a better workforce. Ronnie Selinger, CEO, Nordis Technologies, makes the case for your helping their kids.
prominent voices
"I have learned in my schools that social-emotional learning is what really matters."
"Social-Emotional Learning has the skills that we find make people successful over the long haul."
"The programs nurture a child's social and emotional health and their academic skills."
"It it important to pay attention to emotional intelligence...We want to explode that conversation to all over the world."
"Congratulations on the Campaign. I stand ready to support your work. You are engaged in a truly important endeavor and can touch many lives.”
who we are
EQuip Our Kids!, a project of Earthways Foundation, is a national nonprofit campaign raising needed awareness about and support for EQ life skills, especially among parents and businesses. Founded by civic-minded media, business and social entrepreneurs with no financial stake in the outcomes, our goal is comprehensive EQ life skills instruction in every U.S. pre-K-12 classroom by 2030.
our favorite facts
More important than learning lessons in math, science, and history, these life skills deserve all schools’ adoption.
- Dramatic improvements in student emotional states,
grades and life outcomes. - Equally notable declines in bullying, racism, substance abuse, discipline incidents, digital addiction and suicides.
- 80% of parents want core EQ skills taught at schools but don't know the programs are available (and never heard of SEL).
- See the research proof + + Youth behavior before and after EQ
Become An Ally
Contact us if you or your organization want to help spread awareness of this learning, want to publicly endorse the campaign, or be a sponsor or volunteer.
Our Mission
EQuip Our Kids! is a national nonprofit campaign raising awareness about EQ life skills, especially among parents and businesses. Our goal is comprehensive EQ life skills instruction in every preK -12 classroom in the US by 2030.