WHY THE VALUE UP TOOL KIT?
The Culture Building Tool Kit is our way to ensure that the powerful message, story, 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, videos and training, our desire is to have a lasting impact on school culture. 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 assembly and training. Then we follow up with our tool kit. The tool kit can be used by any teacher, club or group in the school as a way to get to know each other better, discuss and play games around character building and teen issues, and promote messages of character throughout the school.
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
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.
