WHY THE VALUE UP TOOL KIT?
The Value Up School Culture Building Tool Kit is our way to ensure that the powerful message, stories, and trainings the day the speakers come into a school doesn’t just fade out. There are plenty of good speakers out there to have, but we wanted to be more than just good. Through curriculum, artwork, ongoing discussions, books, and training, our desire is to have a lasting impact on school culture through our tool kit. After more than 20 years of working in schools, we discovered the challenge teachers and administrators face in injecting their positive ideas into the hearts and minds of the student body. No matter how many good intentions we have as adults, culture is established for students mostly by what students say to one another. So how do you get students saying healthy positive things to one another? First, we inspire this behavior through our powerful assemblies and trainings. Then we follow up with our tool kit.
COST: $1,500
What comes in the Tool Kit?
Club Curriculum
Value Up Banner
Homeroom Q&A Discussion Guides for Teachers
25 Copies of the Value Up Book
10 Value Up Posters
Specialized Training – Integration Workshop
And Soon to Come! (Available January 1, 2020)
Positive Media Online (in development)
School Announcement Videos/Audio Recordings (in development)
Breakdown of Took Kit:
Club Curriculum
20 small group 45 minute sessions for any club or group at your school to walk through together.
These are powerful ways for the students and adults get to know each other on a much deeper level and strengthen as the group as a whole. The 20 subject sessions are on:
Respect, Active Listening, Empathy, Stereotyping, Gossip, Creating a Culture of Kindness, Loneliness, Intimidation, Suicide, Failure, Forgiveness, Healthy Confrontation, People-Helping, Self-Injury, Breaking Free of the Past, Anger Management, Setting Healthy Boundaries, Self-Worth, Acceptance, and Personal Ethics.
One copy is provided and then copies can be made for however many clubs/groups there are at the school.
Value Up Banner
After the assembly, it’s a great idea to give students the chance to sign a banner that will go up in the school. The banner states “I will value myself and others.” The banner will fill up with signatures if given the chance after the presentation sometime.
Homeroom Q&A
A copy for every teacher of our homeroom Q&As that cause brief discussions (5 min or less). We will need to know the number of teachers in the school before the speaker arrives to bring enough copies. Our belief is if a teacher captures the hearts of students, they will have their minds for academic learning. These discussions are a great exercise to do just that.
25 Copies of the Value Up Book
Written by Mike Donahue and the forward by Craig Scott (founders of Value Up), this book has been influential in the lives of thousands of teenagers across the country. The main goal: help them to see their own intrinsic value. Put a few copies in the school library and maybe give to some select teachers and students or groups in the school.
10 Value Up Posters
Well designed and relative to teens today, these poster messages can hang up around the school.
Specialized Training – Integration Workshop
In both the student and teacher training, there will be additional instruction on how to incorporate the tools. During the teacher training, the speaker will go more in depth in how to integrate the VU message in school systematic way.
The Value Up “system” will provide you with hundreds of what we call active impressions and passive impressions. These written impression and ideas have cut and paste capability with the freedom to personalize and expand upon them. For example, imagine the wrestling coach decides to utilize the passive impression: It is wrestling practice, and calisthenics are about to begin. The captain of the team grabs a clipboard from the team manager and reads, “Abraham Lincoln High School is a Value Up School. Whether you are the most skilled or most successful wrestler on this team or just beginning, your value is not determined by your skill-set. We accept nothing less than respecting and valuing each and every member of this team.” This is one of many examples.
SOON TO COME! (Beginning of 2020)
Positive Media Online (in development)
We are beginning a new venture to build a website page with media for students and teachers that is positive and reinforces our message. The media will include short films, videos, songs and graphics that will be free to download for any teachers or students. This will be an ongoing resource that we will continually add to. It goes live the beginning of 2020. Any schools having purchased the tool kit before 2020 will be contacted and given access to the media.
School Announcement Videos/Audio Recordings (in development)
If you have television announcements or social media pages for your school, then every month you may want to play one of our videos to reinforce the Value Up message and impact. If you don’t have any way to show videos, then we also have included audio recordings as files to be played through the intercom – reminders to students about the powerful messages they heard the day of the assembly.
If you’re passionate about strengthening the culture of your school and maximizing the Value Up Program impact, we highly recommend this Culture Building Tool Kit!