Are you interested in creating a culture in your organization that cares of kids and community? These workshops can follow a keynote presentation or simply stand alone. They are truly effective.
WORKSHOPS
Building Healthy Strength-Based Schools
Based on extensive work in schools, participants will learn about the key assets and research that promote thriving behaviors and decrease high risk behaviors. This workshop is interactive and each participant will have a seven point plan on how to create change without having to change the entire system! A perfect adjunct to the keynote."
Our Most Valuable Resource: Our Kids
Our youth are ready, willing, and able to help change the school climate and community. In this highly charged, dynamic ½ day or day long training, students will enjoy and learn the keys of leadership from the book “Good to Great,” and then plan how they can help change the school climate. Their ideas are remarkable – why? No one ever asked them before! This is for every level, and is modified to meet their needs. Leadership combined with service are an unbeatable pair. As one student put it, “I didn’t think the adults believed we could do anything!” Their ideas are practical, real, and heart warming. For cost-effectiveness, train up to 100 at a time!
TOTAL SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION
STAFF KEYNOTE FOR SCHOOLS & ORGANIZATIONS In this dynamic, highly interactive, story and researched based keynote, the participant will discover the four key principles and the three key shifts needed to create a strength or asset rich environment.A strength based approach can have powerful impact upon test scores, grades, attendance, and school engagement – plus connect more staff with students on a heart to heart bases. This approach is designed not to take more staff time, but rather shift attention and find out how little things can make an extraordinary different. engage them in extraordinary, but ordinary ways.Using stories from his book “Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids” (Viking Penguin), Vollbracht has delivered this presentation at National Title 1 Conference, Regional educational and Youth Serving Organization Conferences, and Governor’s Summits across North America.
WORKSHOP As a stand alone or follow up to the keynote continue the excitement with more stories and data behind a strength based or asset approach. Participants will interact, see how they can use the data in practical ways, and develop seven point action plan on very real, practical ways to bring this about.
THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE EVENT In this dynamic, high energy, and fun training, you will be tapping into the most underutilized resource in the WORLD today - our youth. In this leadership and service training, students will learn leadership from the best selling book “Good to Great,” and identify service projects they can do in school to improve the school or community climate. What’s the good news? Students involved in service are 51% less likely to be engaged in high risk behavior and leadership training leads to thriving behaviors. Train up to 100 students at a time starting at 5th grade (you pick the grade levels)and let’s get our kids changing the school and community!
PARENTS In the ‘good old days” if a student did something wrong, the parents were upset with the students. Today, parents are now mad at the schools! Time to change this paradigm around. In this interactive and informative presentation, parents, grandparents, and guardians will interact, see the powerful data behind building strengths, and have a very practical action plan how they can be positive forces for change at school, support, not oppose school staff, and have a list of 20 small, but powerful and powerful practices they can use to help their kids.