Each product is built from evidence‑based research and now stands as a core Saavsus offering, trusted by clinicians, educators, and community partners. The deep‑dives below highlight who each product serves, how it’s delivered, and the outcomes it drives.
Program 01 · K–8 physical education
Physical education that fits in a teacher’s hand.
Pocket PE is a complete physical education resource designed for the constraints of a real K–8 program: shared gym space, mixed-grade rotations, and the teacher who is also the after-school coach. Lessons run in 20- to 45-minute blocks; warm-ups, instruction, and assessment are all built around that envelope.
The curriculum is standards-aligned to SHAPE America’s National PE Standards. The companion app gives teachers a planner, a timer, a roster, and a lightweight assessment workflow on the device they already carry into the gym.
Pocket PE gives district leaders a scalable, evidence‑informed solution that improves consistency, reduces workload, and lowers system‑wide costs.
Delivered through single‑ or multi‑year iOS and Android subscriptions, backed by high‑touch district implementation, IT support, on‑demand onboarding, and live customer support.
"The best part is the very minimal planning effort. It's not a heavy lift for teachers, unlike most curriculum, so I can add something fun without stressing about planning."
— Jaclyn Heid, Pomelo Community Charter School
Program 02 · Oral health, families with young children
Plain-language oral health, handed to a parent.
Fast Facts is a library of issue-specific oral health fliers for families of young children, designed to be left behind after a home visit, well-child appointment, or parent education session. The handouts reinforce what the educator just covered — encouraging families to increase the frequency and consistency of good oral health practices in the weeks that follow.
Each flier is bilingual (English and Spanish), single-sheet, and printed in packs of 25. The visual treatment is grounded in literacy research: simple words, lots of white space, and bright graphics that keep a tired parent engaged. The library currently covers eleven topics — from bottle weaning and breastfeeding to first dental visits, healthy snacks, and toothpaste dosing by age.
It gives us a way to leave the message in the home — something the family can look at again after we’ve gone.
— Early childhood home visitor
Make Parenting A Pleasure, Second Edition is the flagship child abuse prevention program from Parenting Now — a research- and evidence-based group curriculum for highly stressed parents of children from birth to eight years old. Twelve sessions move from emotion coaching and positive attention through play to brain development, the effects of stress on a young child, and packing a child’s metaphorical “suitcase” of values and goals.
The curriculum is grounded in the Center for the Study of Social Policy’s Protective Factors Framework — parental resilience, social connections, concrete support in times of need, knowledge of parenting and child development, and the social and emotional competence of children — the five factors associated with reducing the potential for child abuse and neglect.
Highly stressed parents of children ages 0 to 8 — typically served in Head Start, home visiting, child welfare, and family resource center settings.
Twelve group sessions, each combining discussion, scripted activities, and modeling videos. Comprehensive step-by-step instructions let parenting educators implement the curriculum without a training requirement; in-person training and ongoing support are available from Parenting Now.
A 2019 randomized controlled trial published in Child and Family Behavior Therapy reported improvement in self-reported parental depression and gains in parenting skill and knowledge of child development. Listed as research- and evidence-based in Head Start’s Parenting Curricula Review database; aligns with Head Start Performance Standard 1302.51.
The first thing I noticed about the Second Edition was how easy it is to get the families talking about each topic.
— Hali Burley, MPAP Parenting Educator, Parenting Now
Program 04 · Job-readiness, adolescents
Social skills for the first paycheck.
WAGES — Working At Gaining Employment Skills — teaches the social skills behind finding work and staying in it: how to interview, how to take direction, how to handle conflict on a shift, how to keep a paycheck after the offer letter. The curriculum was developed at the University of Oregon School of Education and field-tested across five years in transition classrooms in urban and rural high schools.
Thirty-three lessons run inside a 40–50 minute class period and are designed for delivery across a nine-week term. Activities are woven into the instructional design: a full day in the school career center, three days drafting a résumé, cover letter, and letter of appreciation, a mock interview with an outside employer, and a culminating community-based job shadow or industry tour.
Adolescents in transition programs — particularly students with disabilities, for whom unemployment rates run 30 to 40% in the years after high school and substantially higher for students with emotional disabilities.
Instructor-led, classroom-based. Each lesson follows the same format — purpose, learning outcomes, review, required materials, vocabulary, activity, wrap-up — backed by an instructor’s guide that lays out the research foundation and implementation strategies.
Outcomes published in Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin (2012) showed gains in occupational skills, cooperation, assertiveness, and empathy after nine months of instruction. The study received first place from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association’s Research Award and the National Rehabilitation Association’s Editor’s Choice Award.
It became a regular part of our routines. The students responded well and the format was easy to differentiate for different learning styles.
— Kriss Rita, Transition Network Facilitator, Clackamas ESD
