Character Education That Actually Gets Used
The K-5 SEL curriculum for elementary classrooms. 40 weeks of kindness, self-control, and conflict resolution. One-click bilingual. Zero student accounts.
Try Be The Buffalo Right Now
Experience our SEL resources before you commit. Choose a printable activity, an interactive projector demo, or a free choose-your-own-adventure story.
Storm & Sunshine Cards
Help students identify challenges and discover positive outcomes. Perfect for building resilience and perspective-taking.
Opens in new tab • Customize grade • Print instantly
The Invisible Crew
Discover the hidden helpers who make everyday scenes possible. A gratitude activity your whole class will love.
Opens in new tab • Choose grade • Any device
The Lunch Table
A Choose Your Own Adventure story where students make decisions about kindness, inclusion, and standing up for others.
Opens in new tab • Make choices • Multiple endings
Our Framework
A Complete Approach to Growing Good Humans
Character, skills, and real-world practice — woven together into one curriculum.
The What
Who I want to be.
Who are we helping children become? Kind, responsible, honest, courageous, respectful, resilient people.
The How
The skills that help me do it.
How do children actually live those values? By learning to regulate emotions, communicate, solve problems, manage conflict, understand others, and make thoughtful decisions.
Putting It Into Practice
Using those skills when life gets hard.
When something is stressful, uncertain, or scary, children need to regulate themselves enough to think, listen, make safe choices, and respond appropriately.
"Be the Buffalo" — Just like buffalo face storms head-on together, your students learn to face life's challenges with courage, supporting each other along the way.
What this looks like in practice:
Understand and manage emotions
Recognize feelings, calm down when upset, learn that mistakes are part of learning
Show kindness and empathy
Care for others, see different perspectives, support each other through hard moments
Resolve conflicts and push through challenges
Talk it out, find fair solutions, build the confidence to try new things
Make responsible choices with courage
Think before acting, own the consequences, face challenges that help them grow stronger
Sample Story
Lessons Students Actually Engage With
Read along with Benny in this fully interactive story—press play for narration and toggle to Spanish.Tap play to hear Benny's story narrated aloud. Toggle to Spanish anytime.
Drag pages or use arrows to flip through
Everything You Need for K-5 Character Education
A complete 40-week system with projector activities, songs, printables, and safety modules—all bilingual, all connected, all ready to teach.
80+ Projector Activities
Zero PrepWhole-class interactive stories, games, and scenarios. Students make real choices with real consequences. Project to any screen—no student devices needed.
40-Week Lesson Planner
Full CurriculumComplete year mapped to CASEL competencies. Each week connects activities, printables, songs, and discussion prompts. Drag-and-drop to customize your schedule.
ELA & Literacy Integration
Cross-CurricularInteractive story read-alouds, character feelings detective worksheets, and text-based discussion questions. SEL that supports your reading and writing standards.
Safety & Emergency Modules
7 Safety TopicsEmergency response training, fire/tornado/earthquake drills, bus safety, first aid, and allergy awareness. Age-appropriate lessons with songs kids remember.
Buffalo Songs & Karaoke
Kids Love It!Original songs with on-screen lyrics for morning meetings, brain breaks, and transitions. SEL concepts set to music that kids actually ask for again and again.
One-Click Bilingual
EN ↔ ESToggle between English and Spanish instantly. Every activity, every song lyric, every printable—fully translated. Perfect for dual-language and ELL classrooms.
Music That Teaches
49 original songs with on-screen lyrics for morning meetings, brain breaks, and transitions.
I don't have to be perfect every day
I don't have to know just what to say
49 original songs • On-screen lyrics • Perfect for morning meetings
All 5 Core Competencies
Why Teachers Choose Us
What Makes Be The Buffalo Different
We solved the problems other SEL programs ignore.
The Problem
Most SEL programs require student accounts and collect student data
Our Solution
Zero student accounts. One teacher login controls everything. Project to your screen—that's it.
The Problem
Other curricula need translators or separate Spanish materials
Our Solution
One-click toggle switches everything—activities, songs, printables—instantly. Built for dual-language classrooms.
The Problem
Typical SEL is "activity of the week" with no connected system
Our Solution
40 weeks fully planned. Each week links projector activities, printables, songs, and discussion prompts together.
The Problem
Safety training is a separate program you have to buy
Our Solution
Emergency response, fire drills, tornado, earthquake, bus safety, first aid, and allergies—all built in with songs kids remember.
The Problem
SEL and literacy are taught in separate silos
Our Solution
Story read-alouds, character feelings worksheets, and text-based discussions integrate SEL with your ELA standards.
Built for real classrooms
Designed around what teachers actually need—not what looks good on paper.
What Educators Are Saying
Real Feedback from Real Educators
“This is exactly what I've been wanting, looking for, and hoping for! I used Character Strong for 1 year and was really disappointed with how much extra I had to supplement in order to keep the lessons fun and engaging. This one is so, so good!!!”
School Counselor
Arkansas
“The variety of implementation models; stories, projector, printables and songs are outstanding. Counselors and teachers have significant differences in what works best for their students. It is created for all students.”
Elementary Counselor
“My 4th graders practice kindness and self-control every day. My biggest behavior issues have declined due to the conflict resolution and empathy units we've used.”
4th Grade Teacher
Michigan
Simple Pricing
One plan, everything included. The complete 40-week SEL system for K-5.
How We Compare
School-Wide SEL Programs Cost Thousands
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Complete 40-Week System
Everything connected, everything ready
Free Trial — First 4 Weeks
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Full 40-week annual plan ($149.99/yr) coming soon
- 40-week CASEL curriculum with drag-and-drop planner
- 80+ projector activities — zero student accounts needed
- One-click bilingual toggle (English ↔ Spanish)
- 7 safety modules: emergency response, fire, tornado, bus & more
- ELA integration: story read-alouds & literacy worksheets
- Buffalo Songs with on-screen karaoke lyrics
Free tier available — no credit card required
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Be The Buffalo!
Focus. Confidence. Success.
Your students face real challenges every day. Be the Buffalo gives them the character strengths to navigate these moments with confidence—kindness, self-control, conflict resolution, and courage.
Through Benny's adventures, students discover that facing life's challenges isn't about being perfect—it's about building the character to handle whatever comes their way.
Give your students character traits they'll use for a lifetime.
Sign Up Free"Buffalo run into the storm—not because they're fearless, but because they know the fastest way through is straight ahead."