Day One  helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Self-Awareness: Understanding our own actions, thoughts and feelings. 

Journaling is one of the best ways for students to put their feelings into tangible form. If students keep a daily journal, they can look back on their writing and reflect on how their emotions affected them on a particular day. This can lead to greater self-control and understanding. Adding a photo or picture component allows them to express visually and artistically how they were feeling on any particular day as well. 

Focus: Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Writing about oneself is often easier than writing about other topics. For students struggling with focus, creating and maintaining a daily journal is a way of practicing focus in a low stakes and personal way.