Overcoming Obstacles is a free, award-winning, and research-based K-12 curriculum that provides you with the tools to teach your students life skills. With hundreds of activity-based lessons covering more than 30 critical social and emotional skills, students learn how to communicate effectively. They learn how to make informed decisions. They learn how to set and achieve goals, resolve conflicts, solve problems, respect one another, and more.Since 1992, over 300,000 educators in all 50 states and in 170 countries have used Overcoming Obstacles' free lessons to improve the lives of more than 70 million young people.