Program Benefits:

• Builds Critical Student Success Skills 
• Empowers Teachers 
• Is Easy to Use and Effective 

Targeted Skill Building  

• A few minutes a week can improve student achievement 
•  Building the key skills that children need for learning improves test taking and academic success   
• Learning skills that are weak can be targeted and strengthened  
• The Success Skill Building Program focuses students on overcoming their most serious barriers to learning.  
• The program helps students learn how to learn.  
• When students are trained in listening, self discipline, behavior, study, memorization, test taking and other key skills, they become motivated and excel. 
• Teachers are simultaneously guided in strengthening their effectiveness and classroom management skills.   

Objectives - Improve the:

• Academic
• Behavior
• Achievement
• Memorization
• Test taking and 
• Communication Skills of at risk, classified and general education students.  

The Program:

• Can be implemented at anytime during the school year
• Can target at risk, classified, I & R S and/or all students
• Can be used with specific classes or school wide
• Helps improve teacher class management, student engagement and instruction effectiveness skills
• Is easy to use and takes only a few minutes a week of a teacher’s time
• Can be used in grades 3 to 12  
• Is flexible and can be tailored to the specific needs of teachers, students and/or classes 
• Reduces student disruptions and increases classroom learning time 
• Helps teachers to nurture, support and better care for themselves 

The 5 Program Components

1. Doing Great Skill Building
2. Weekly Student Power Skill Building Sessions
3. Teacher Effectiveness Skill Building 
4. Parent Guidance & Support
5. Results Monitoring & Rewards

1. Doing Great Skill Building:

Doing Great Skills are the 2 most important skills that a student needs to strengthen that can dramatically improve his or her achievement.  Doing Great Charts are used to monitor skill improvement.   

2. Power Success Skills:

Success Skills are the foundation learning, communication and behavior skills that students need in order to excel in school.  The Program breaks Success Skills into easy to learn, remember and use, 3 to 7 mnemonic steps.  Structured weekly Success Sessions are used to instruct students in building their key skills.  Students help and reward one another.  Students get their own personal Power Success Skill Building workbooks.  

3. Teacher Effectiveness Skill Building

Teachers are guided in improving student motivation, academic skill building, classroom management and instruction effectiveness. 

4. Parent Guidance & Support

Parents are guided in how to build their child's academic and behavior Success Skills.  

5. Results Monitoring and Rewards 

Student progress is measured.  Students receive rewards for effort and skill improvement.  

Motivation: A Key Component

• “I’m Dump.  I hate school.”:  Many at risk students give up on success.  These students often find that the only thing they are good at is being bad.  
• Game Changer:  The game students are playing is changed from one that is difficult or impossible for them to win to one that they can, and will, win.
• Peer Reinforcement:  The program uses positive peer recognition, attention and reward for doing the right things.
• Visible Progress:  Students see the progress they are making on their Success Treasure Maps. 
• Tangible Rewards:  Rewards are used to motivate student action
• Parent Involvement:  Parents are involved in monitoring and reinforcing skill building at home  

The program is flexible and is tailored to fit within a teacher's time constraints and the needs of her students. Schools today face financial difficulties.  All programs can be tailored to fit within your school's budgetary resources.    

Program Elements Include:

1. The 21 Power Success Skills Book and Training Workbooks:  Program books and manuals can be purchased in hard copy book, downloadable PDF or weekly email delivery formats. 
2. Skill Building: Teachers take only a few minutes each week to instruct their students in the Power Skill of the Week.
3. Reinforcement: Teachers remind, praise and reward student skill building efforts and improvement.
4. Doing Great Charts:  Students work at strengthening the 2 most important skills specific to an individual student's needs that can dramatically improve that student's success. 
5. Teacher Power:  Each week teachers receive a Teacher Power Tool for improving their classroom management, student engagement and instruction effectiveness skills. 
6. Success Monitoring:  Students use the Success Checklist and the Success Treasure Map to visually see their progress. 
7. On Site and/or Telephonic Training and Consultation:  Teachers and school staff can receive online, telephonic, video or on site consultation in the use of the program and help with at risk students.