STRATEGY OF SUCCESS

"Many of our young people have been so soured by their experience in today’s classrooms that the joy of learning has all but died for a lifetime.”
Dr. Laurence Martel
"Good teachers never teach anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place."
S. I. Hayakawa

WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE THIS CURRICULAM ?

Strategies for Success provides students with multi-intelligence, whole brain based, and team building sets of lessons that allow students to gain tools for coping with issues both in and out of school. The energizing classroom environment created in this course allows students to actively participate in building strategies that will last a lifetime.

Students who have taken this course have shown marked improvement in the following areas:

* grades both in class and on state assessment tests

* relationships with peers, school staff, family members, employers and friends

* ability to handle the stress of life both in and out of school

* financial literacy

* leadership qualities

This course was written to address some of the elements missing in the education of teens in the twenty-first century. Parents, business owners, teachers and teens themselves have expressed concern that students are not exposed to as many positive influences as in years past.

With fragmented families and both parents working, teens often find themselves with an overabundance of time on their hands and a scarcity of empowering resources at their disposal. For many, advice comes in the form of the omnipresent media or a fellow teen. They need and want assistance in creating a good life for themselves but often don’t know where to turn for reliable information.

Schools have ramped up their academic curricula to address new laws and national testing. Teachers have been asked to rise to the ranks of ‘high performing.’ Parents have struggled to find solutions to help their children

But students still seek a cohesive framework to link their educational and social issues in a meaningful, engaging and inviting manner. And they would like to find a way to enjoy school or at least have some classes that are fun to attend while being inspirational as well as educational. Strategies can be that course for your school.

Strategies for Success provides the kind of learning and material that are often only seen in the charter schools. But all students deserve to know the simple yet effective ground-breaking lessons that this program provides. The ability to offer Strategies as a semester elective course allows that to happen.

Students who have taken this course not only have improved academically but also have achieved goals that they, their parents and their teachers have set for them in varied areas of their lives. The students carry the positive attitude attained in this course throughout the school complex creating a change in the atmosphere of the school at large.