RTV’s Legacy Programs utilize the structure of the classroom to deliver impactful intervention and character education, through textbook-based instruction, field trips, and incentives. These award-winning programs have been proven to improve attendance, increase grade point average, and reduce suspensions in student populations across the country. RTV’s Legacy Programs include:
- Raise the Standard
- Capturing the Vision
- Making It Work
RAISE THE STANDARD │ Elementary School
Dr. Jacqueline Del Rosario
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Raise the Standard puts the rhetoric of early intervention into live application by focusing on making a difference in the lives of elementary school students. Through engaging activities and inspiring true-to-life scenarios, Raise the Standard teaches young readers how to manage some of the most trying and troubling aspects of pre-adolescence, including self-esteem, conflict resolution, peer pressure, honesty, etiquette, and hygiene.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Raise the Standard is the “how-to” resource that teachers and parents have wanted for a long time and that children desperately need. Raise the Standard’s nine units cover the following key concepts:
• Self-Esteem
• Responsibility
• Love and Caring
• Breaking the Cycle of Prejudice
• Peer Pressure
• Conflict Resolution
• Honesty
• Manners & Etiquette
• Hygiene and Grooming
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
• Comprehensive, easy-to-use teacher’s manual
• Student workbook
• Student incentives
• And more
PROGRAM DESIGN
• Ages 8-12
• Standardized curriculum delivers consistent results
• Fits seamlessly into a home-school, classroom, after-school, summer camp, church, or community program as an elective course under personal development and character education; can be adapted to complement existing programs.
• Utilizes Social Learning Theory and the Positive Youth Development approach
• Features participatory learning strategies and multicultural content
EVALUATION CRITERIA:
• Improved self-esteem
• Improved sense of purpose
• Improved ability to resolve conflict
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:
Unit One – Self-Esteem
Building self-esteem activities are designed to give students the tools they need to deal with the people and things that can negatively impact their self-esteem. They will learn through stories, projects, and skits how to love and value themselves for who they are.
Unit Two – Responsibility
Students receive lessons on responsibility in all aspects of their lives, but with a special emphasis on school and home. Students will learn how being responsible now is vital preparation for their future.
Unit Three – Loving and Caring
These activities teach students the need to demonstrate love and affection to the people in their lives. They will also be taught the power of charity, empathy, forgiveness, and cooperation, culminating in a field trip to a nursing home or some other mutually beneficial community project.
Unit Four – Breaking the Cycle of Prejudice
Students will identify stereotypes in their culture, discuss their prejudices and as a final project share items from their culture/heritage of which they are proud. This unit aims to provide students with effective strategies to break the cycle of prejudice and stereotyping in our society.
Unit Five – Peer Pressure: Saying “No” to Sex, Violence, & Drugs
After reading and discussing real-life scenarios, students will be equipped with effective strategies to say “no” to sex, violence, and drugs. As a culminating project students will create banners and posters to spread their “say no” message to the entire school.
Unit Six – Conflict Resolution
Provides students with conflict resolution techniques which focus on negotiation, meditation, compromise, and assertiveness as viable alternatives to violence. Students will role play by adopting the personas of a variety of people in conflict and use the strategies they’ve learned to solve the problems.
Unit Seven – Honesty
Activities in this unit are designed to show students how honesty impacts every aspect of their lives. Students will learn how the lines between honesty and dishonesty have been blurred by mass media will complete a project to assess the honesty of some of the people they admire.
Unit Eight – Manners & Etiquette
Students will be taught the fundamentals of good manners and etiquette in a variety of settings such as in a restaurant or while talking on the phone. The culminating activity will be a field trip to a sit-down restaurant.
Unit Nine – Hygiene & Grooming
Activities on personal hygiene will inform students about the changes taking place in their bodies and how to always put their best foot forward. Students will attend an in-house field trip with a skincare specialist. The turnkey package includes hygiene kits for students.
CAPTURING THE VISION │ Middle/High School
Dr. Jacqueline Del Rosario
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Capturing the Vision’s comprehensive activities develop the character, self-esteem, and decision-making skills of adolescent girls by preparing them to meet the challenges of life.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
The Capturing the Vision Middle and High School program delivers character and self-esteem development, goal-setting practice, conflict-resolution, and workforce preparation through practical instruction in the following areas:
• Etiquette Training
• Goal-Setting
• Career-Planning
• Personal Hygiene
• Morals and Values
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
• Comprehensive, easy-to-use teacher’s manual
• Student textbook
• Teacher Professional Development
• And more . . .
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
• Ages 12-18
• Standardized curriculum delivers consistent results
• Fits seamlessly into a home-school, classroom, after-school, summer camp, church, or community program as an elective course under personal development and character education; can be adapted to complement existing programs.
• Utilizes Social Learning Theory and the Positive Youth Development approach
• Features participatory learning strategies and multicultural content
EVALUATION CRITERIA:
• Improved self-esteem
• Improved sense of purpose
• Improved assertiveness
• Improved ability to resolve conflict
MAKING IT WORK │ Middle/High School
Dr. Jacqueline Del Rosario
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Making It Work is an ideal tool for healthy relationship and marriage education. Based on research conducted by the National Extension Relationship & Marriage Education Network (NERMEN), the curriculum offers practical instruction on the skills necessary to succeed in marriage and prepares students for healthy relationships.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
The Making It Work Middle and High School program recognizes that all healthy relationships have common key elements. Through discussion of NERMEN’s 6 principles of healthy relationships, students will learn how to:
• Choose a compatible mate
• Know their mate’s life plan and beliefs
• Share their time and interests
• Manage strategies that foster a positive relationship
• Connect to support networks
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
• Comprehensive, easy-to-use teacher’s manual
• Student workbook
• RTV signature event
• And more. . .
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
• Ages 12-18
• Standardized curriculum delivers consistent results
• Fits seamlessly into a home-school, classroom, after-school, summer camp, church, or community program as an elective course under personal development and character education; can be adapted to complement existing programs.
• Utilizes Social Learning Theory and the Positive Youth Development approach
• Features participatory learning strategies and multicultural content
EVALUATION CRITERIA:
• Improved self-esteem
• Improved sense of purpose
• Improved ability to resolve conflict
• Improved attitude on marriage
• Increased likelihood to delay sexual activity
• Improved understanding of how to choose the right
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