Why Try
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One resource that helps students in and out of the classroom to make their life better, understanding and making better choices about behavior, academics, and relationships, is called Why Try. Why Try is a hands-on social and emotional skills curriculum that teaches kids through visuals, music, and kinesthetic activities. Folks, this is life-changing material and if you've ever heard Christian Moore, the founder of Why Try, speak about how he overcame very significant learning disabilities, non-existent parental and home supports, challenges with negative peer influences, and how most of his childhood friends have died or gone to prison, and how he learned to recognize the principles that helped him make it alive out of a very dark and dangerous childhood, and how he, in order to reach kids like him systematized and visualized the core principles of effective social and emotional skills, you are probably already a Why Try supporter. Without a doubt, Christian has a compelling story. More compelling than that, though, is Why Try's success as a successful prevention and intervention curriculum for the most at-risk of at-risk students that is being duplicated and documented over and over again around the country and overseas. Read an excerpt below from Why Try's website:
Our Mission:
To help people achieve freedom, opportunity, and self-respect through education and interventions that motivate and create positive change. We offer hope and an answer to the question Why Try in life?
The WhyTry Program is a simple, hands-on curriculum which helps youth overcome their challenges and improve outcomes in the areas of truancy, behavior, and academics. WhyTry teaches critical social and emotional principles to youth (K-12) using a series of ten pictures (visual analogies) which each teach a principal, such as resisting peer-pressure, or that decisions have consequences. The visual components are then reinforced by music and physical activities. The major learning styles—visual, auditory, and body-kinesthetic—are all addressed.
The WhyTry Program is now in use in over 5,000 schools, mental health facilities, and correctional facilities in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. It has now been demonstrated in a variety of research settings to reduce truancy, improve academic success, and increase graduation rates.
Visit www.whytry.org for more information.
Considering the vision statement of Teacher-Space which focuses on recognizing, validating, and rewarding the many ways that teachers go beyond teaching the standardized curriculum , we thought it would be appropriate to share some resources beyond the ordinary curriculum which are currently helping students across the United States, and beyond!
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