Brain-First Learning for an AI World

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See Everything SOAR Includes — and Decide With Your Whole Team

Whether you’re the one championing SOAR® or the one with the hard questions, this is the page that answers them — what’s included, how it fits your schedule, what it costs, and why it works. Look around first, then get your digital review copy below.

Free for educators

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SOAR’s student materials come as a book, software, or both. This form will default to sending you a digital review copy of the student book (grades 6–12). Want to see the software, too? Request a free, 14-day trial inside the form.

The SOAR curriculum system — student app, workbook, teacher presentation, and resources

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The Live Demo

Not ready to sign up? Look inside one live lesson.

No email needed. Open a demo lesson and you’ll be inside the real teacher portal — the same view your teachers would have.

Here’s what you’ll see:

SOAR Learning teacher portal — showing the table of contents, three-layer structure, and sidebar resources
Layer 0 — Teacher resources Layers 1–3 — Student experience Sidebar — Next steps

The Complete System

What’s included?

Student materials are modular — book, software, or both. The teacher presentation tool brings it together with slides, scripts, and assessments.

The SOAR Learning & Soft Skills system — student app, student workbook, teacher presentation, and teacher resources in one complete system

Student Materials

Software, workbook, or both

The software and the workbook carry the same core content, so either one teaches the full curriculum on its own. About 80% of schools take both — the software to teach and practice, the book as a reference students keep and write in. Your digital review copy opens the full workbook; adding the trial opens the software. Request either or both in the form above.

You choose one or both

SOAR Student Workbook

Student Workbook

SOAR Student Software

Student Software

Teacher Materials

Included with all packages

SOAR is a turn-key curriculum — fully structured, zero prep — yet flexible enough to customize pacing, depth, and delivery to your school.

  • A multimedia presentation tool to project lessons
  • Software-based assessments with a built-in gradebook
  • Formative assessments — anecdotal observations, rubrics, and portfolios
SOAR Teacher Presentation tool shown on a monitor

Teacher Presentation

SOAR teacher resources — slides, scripts, and assessments

Slides, Scripts & Assessments

All 18 Lessons

What does it teach?

Once your team sees the skills, the need is obvious. Every lesson tackles something students are expected to have but are rarely taught directly — note-taking, memory, reading for meaning, managing time and stress.

How Are You Smart?
1Why Study Skills?
2What Are Your Strengths & Superpowers?
3How Does Your Brain Learn?
Set Goals
4Identify Your Priorities
5Create Your Goals
6Manage Time & Take Action
Organize
7Organize Your Papers & Digital Files
8Organize Your Space
9Organize Your Time & Manage Your Energy
Ask Questions
10How to Read Nonfiction (hardcopy & online)
11How to Communicate with Teachers & Peers
12How to Listen & Take Notes
13How to Study & Learn New Terms (includes “How to Study Math”)
14How to Take Tests
15How to Write Paragraphs & Essays
16How to Learn Correct Grammar & Punctuation
17How to Give a Presentation
Track Progress
18How to Track Progress & Keep Moving Forward

Eighteen lessons, sequenced the way the brain actually builds them — one coherent system, not a worksheet packet.

Inside a Lesson

How is a lesson built?

Every lesson is built in three layers — by design.

Layer 1

Collect Prior Knowledge

Inquiry-style questions that activate what students already know and drive engagement before new content is introduced. Activities can be done solo, but are optimal as social learning experiences.

Layer 2

Connect New Information

New content delivered in visual layers: graphics, captions, bold text. The same layered reading approach SOAR teaches students explicitly in Lesson 10.

Layer 3

Confirm Understanding

Apply + Practice activities, discussion prompts, and extension options. Use what time allows.

Pacing & Scheduling

How does it fit my schedule?

It’s the question we hear most. The Pacing Guide answers it head-on — options from full-year, five-days-a-week all the way down to a few sessions in a 1-on-1 pull-out, and everything in between. Flip through all 11 scheduling models here, or find it again in your trial portal.

SOAR Pacing Guide — 11 scheduling models, from full-year five-days-a-week down to a few sessions in a 1-on-1 pull-out

Decision Documents

Take these to your team

The documents that answer the questions you’ll get asked — plus the Pacing Guide above, which answers the scheduling one.

SOAR Curriculum Guide cover

Curriculum Guide

What’s inside

  • The full lesson list and scope
  • What students can do after each unit
  • Standards alignment and sample lesson pages
Get the Curriculum Guide →
SOAR 8-Step Getting Started Guide cover

8-Step Getting Started Guide

What’s inside

  • The exact path from first login to first lesson taught
  • A setup checklist
  • How to roll out across a team
See the 8 steps →

For the skeptic on your team: Why SOAR Works · Proven Results · Standards Alignments

Questions & Quotes

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A short live walk-through with a SOAR specialist — bring your team’s questions.

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School and district pricing, built to your numbers.

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Susan Kruger Winter, M.Ed., founder of SOAR Learning
About the Author

Susan Kruger Winter, M.Ed.

Susan is a certified K–12 learning & ELA specialist with 25+ years of experience. She built SOAR from her own struggles as a student. Years later, her son’s academic challenges led her into the neuroscience of learning, and The Brain Circuit model emerged from that work. SOAR’s executive function curriculum is now used in 5,100+ schools across 53+ countries.

About Susan →

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The student workbook PDF is yours immediately. Add the free 14-day software trial if you want all 18 lessons and the teacher portal — built for grades 6–12.

The SOAR curriculum system — student book, student software, and teacher presentation tool

Review copy sent immediately. Trial access (optional) is set up manually and sent the next business day.