Social Detective & Superflex Series
Strategies & activities to bolster social awareness, perspective taking & self-regulation
Award-winning social emotional learning resources
Supporting children ages 5-10+
Award-winning social emotional learning resources
Supporting children ages 5-10+
Discover the Social Detective & Superflex Series—more than 447,000 copies sold worldwide
If you’re looking for a highly engaging social emotional learning curriculum that teaches social observation, social awareness, perspective taking, flexible thinking, and self-regulation, you’ve come to the right place! Our award-winning Social Detective & Superflex Series is where to start to help children ages 5-10+ learn how to make sense of our complex social world and then figure out how to best navigate within it to meet their social goals.
Students first learn how to become Social Detectives who observe what’s going on around them, read social situations, and interpret clues. They then learn about flexible thinking and self-regulation through Superflex, our very popular motivational tool that empowers them to explore their social strengths and challenges and learn strategies for adapting more flexibly to social situations and taking control of their thinking to manage their challenges to meet their goals.
To help you teach your students foundational social emotional learning (SEL), we suggest our brand new You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide, an easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. It provides 10 fun, structured lesson plans and visual tools to support building students’ social attention, social interpretation, and self-awareness—the foundation for social emotional learning for everyone.
Explore below our award-winning print products, discounted product bundles, online training, and free stuff to supplement teaching the Social Detective & Superflex Series in your school, home, community, or clinic.
New K-5 Social Detective Curriculum Teaching Example
Classroom Teaching Example
In this short 10-minute video, Ann, a 3rd grade teacher, provides a real-life classroom example of how to teach Lesson #3: Clue Collector Club from our new You Are a Social Detective Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide. Watch Ann teach her students how Social Detectives use the situation (place + people + what’s happening) to collect clues and create their own social magnifying glass.
Help your students become Social Detectives with this easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day.
Free Stuff to Support Lesson 3 Teaching Example
New K-5 Social Detective Curriculum Launch Party
Wath the recording of our new K-5 Social Detective Curriculum product launch. Michelle Garcia Winner, CEO of Social Thinking, joined fellow authors Dr. Pamela Crooke and Kari Zweber Palmer to introduce viewers to the new curriculum.
Make Your Own Magnifying Glass
Trace a magnifying glass & decorate it with anything you like!
Gather Clues Around You
Use your magnifying glass to uncover the situation around you.
Best-Selling and Award-Winning Social Detective & Superflex Series
Start with Social Detective to build the foundation for social emotional learning
After setting the foundation, introduce the Superflex Curriculum to teach about self-regulation toward behavior change (save 10% on bundles)
Use these storybooks, games & visual supports in any order with your students after working through the Superflex Curriculum
Free Stuff for Home & School
Free Webinars—Learn Essential Social Thinking Concepts for Free
Free Articles
Free Thinksheets
Digital Products to Engage Your Social Learners Online
You Are a Social Detective! Explaining Social Thinking to Kids
This new digital storybook teaches from the social learner’s perspective about the power of observation, reading context, and interpreting clues before choosing how to respond in ways that meet their social goals. Kids will learn how to develop their own social detective skills.
Available digitally on Apple Books and Google Play.
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
Designed as a companion guide to teach the concepts explored in You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition more deeply, this curriculum provides 10 structured lesson plans and visual tools to support building students’ social attention, social interpretation, and self-awareness.
Available digitally on Apple Books and Google Play.
Superflex and Kool Q. Cumber to the Rescue!
Kids learn how to activate the Thinkable powers of Kool Q. Cumber to use proactive strategies for managing the UnthinkaBot, Glassman.
Available digitally on Apple Books and Google Play.
|
Audio feature for accessibility |
Superflex takes on Glassman and the Team of UnthinkaBots
Kids learn strategies from the Superflex Academy to figure out problems, the size of those problems, different reaction sizes, and tools such as self-talk, deep breathing, and other strategies to manage Glassman.
Available digitally on Apple Books and Google Play.
|
Audio feature for accessibility |
What is Social Thinking?
Strategies to Build Social Competencies
The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people ages four through adult develop their social competencies, flexible thinking & social problem solving to meet their own social goals and improve:
- Conversation & social connection
- Executive functioning
- Friendship & relationship development
- Perspective taking
- Self-regulation
- Social Thinking Vocabulary
What People Are Saying About Social Thinking
Parents & Families
Thank you doesn’t seem enough for all that your teachings have done for me and my family! They have been a lifeline for me to re-connect with my 9-year-old. Everything you publish is 100% applicable. Keep up the amazing work!
Elementary School
Social Thinking has completely changed the environment of who we are as a whole. Thank you for providing us with such rich social and emotional resources. The impact that your resources make are life changing and early intervention is key. Your curriculum is truly amazing! I bought into Social Thinking about 9 years ago and will use this as long as I am in education.
Schools
I appreciate how the Social Thinking Methodology links social intent/thinking and the common core or school based standards. This connection, and the understanding that exists, is so crucial to every member of a student's school community.
Mental Health & Clinicians
The Social Thinking Methodology is the philosophy that I ascribe to professionally. It serves as my guide through assessment and intervention.
Speech Language Pathologists
I love how realistic the approach is, and doable! Based on real clinical experience adaptable to individual needs/strengths. Great that all the vocabulary is simple, easy to understand, and not full of professional shop talk.
Parents & Families
Social Thinking’s program has given me the much needed tools to communicate in a meaningful way with my 9-year-old son. Thank you. The stress level in our house has decreased along with the meltdowns. He is able to come out of the meltdowns much more readily.
Adult Clients
I am a professional, high-functioning 37 year old woman diagnosed as being on the spectrum two years ago. The Social Thinking Methodology is by far the most helpful resource I have encountered. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it changed my life. Your concrete examples are extremely helpful.