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This program is different from any you've ever experienced! Unlike one-day programs that create short-term excitement and change, this student-led, staff-supported, countywide program takes place over the course of up to 18 months. You'll watch as your students empower each other to:

  • Respect classmates, parents, and teachers
  • Increase learning ability and emotional intelligence
  • Reduce conflict
  • Eliminate racial tension

  • Decrease discipline problems and choose right behavior 

  • Create sustainable and systemic long-term change  

With 12 different modules, MIC2BK is customized to your specific needs:

  1.  Staff Development Program - Culture by Choice Facilitation

Dr. Jay Newman and Laurie Stewart, C.S.P., bring every faculty member together to:

  • Define your current culture
  • Clarify your desired culture
  • Develop a plan to get to your desired culture
  2.  Pre-Assembly Consultations

We will train a "climate team," a small group of your handpicked teen leaders, how to set your entire school on fire for change! They'll learn to:

  • Increase leadership ability and role-model respect
  • Do a needs analysis and set goals
  • Prepare for your all-school assembly
After school, your climate team advisor and an administrator meet with Laurie Stewart, C.S.P., to prepare for your upcoming assembly.

 

  3. MIC2BK Assembly Day

Every student and every staff member participates in this morning assembly that dramatically inspires students to respect themselves and others. Students describe this event as "amazing!" This powerful convocation covers:

  • Treating every person with respect
  • Creating positive peer pressure
  • Becoming the best version of you!
In the afternoon, your climate team receives hands-on training, while your teachers receive resources to help students continue to process and act upon new convictions.
 
  4.  MIC2BK for Parents
Invite your parents to this evening session that equips them to participate in the positive school climate changes. They’ll learn specific strategies to develop respectful teens at school and at home. Session includes:
  • Casting the overall vision for your school/community climate improvement program
  • Additional content based on your needs
  5.  Community Evening Movie Event
Your school and community come together for a powerful follow-up movie.
  • You'll receive suggested movie and event coordination instructions
  • May be presented by a school, a church, or other local non-profit organization
  6.  Climate Team Leadership Training
Laurie Stewart, C.S.P., and Pam Harger, M.Ed., collaborate on a full day session to answer the question, "What do we do next?" Your climate team will:

  • Enjoy fun team building activities

  • Brainstorm challenges and solutions

  • Set achievable goals

  • Share their own leadership lessons learned (seniors leave a legacy)

  • Prepare for a 20 minute student-led vision assembly

  • Learn to keep the fire burning with follow-up climate ideas

  • Build connections between student clubs and community-based organizations

Climate team advisor(s) will receive follow up training as well.

  7.  Student-led 20 Minute Follow Up Vision Assembly                                           This exciting rally provides student "ownership" of the program. Your students will:

  • Cast their MIC2BK vision
  • Re-energize the entire student body
8.  Climate Team Consultations
Quick face-to-face meetings with Laurie Stewart, C.S.P., scheduled as needed throughout your program to provide encouragement and guarantee success.
  • Follow-up advice to assist in momentum building, sustainability, and project planning / implementation
  9.  Advanced Climate Team Leadership Training
Climate teams all have different challenges… this full day of training prepares your team to overcome! Students learn to:
  • Complete goals set out in prior sessions
  • Choose and train new team membersInfluence peers positively and with respect
  • Put on their own impacting Kindness Assemblies
  • Transition into the next school year ensuring a lasting impression is made on your school and community
A few weeks later, a Climate Team Practice, Critique, and Accountability Session will be scheduled.
 
 10.  Student Kindness Assembly
Your climate team will put on their own powerful, follow-up assembly for your entire school! Your team will be so excited to share this assembly; they may even decide to bring a version of it to your middle schools and/or elementary schools to keep the MIC2BK movement going, as other teams have done successfully.

 

 11.  The Connect Effect Conference: Plugging the Energy of Youth into the Needs of Community

This life-changing conference empowers diverse teens as they learn leadership skills, and then partner with community-based organizations to develop and implement service and climate projects.  Your entire school district and community will feel the impact!

 

 12.  MIC2BK Community Celebration
Invite teachers, parents, sponsors, and community leaders to this evening event. Students will present their completed service projects and kindness initiatives. Everyone will celebrate the success of your Making It Cool To Be Kind program!

 Ready to watch kindness and respect catch fire in your schools and community?

Making It Cool To Be Kind will empower your staff and every student in your school to play a role in creating a more positive and respectful atmosphere.

 

Get started today! Contact L.A. Stewart Presentations to receive a personalized road map for your self-sustaining school / community climate improvement program. 

"It is still beyond my comprehension how you were able to keep the entire student body's attention for three and one-half hours while sitting in bleachers. However, this was done by you with absolutely no complaints from anyone. Your sincere concern, unlimited energy, fantastic rapport, and use of experiential stories provided the ultimate key to your successful presentation. Due to touching the lives of so many of our students in such a positive way, we are inviting you back."

Peggy Frierson
Safe & Drug Free Coordinator/ Vocational Counselor, Forrest County School District, Mississippi

"As always, you were magnificent at the Life Leadership Conference. Your presentation is what ties everything together for us and you never fail to deliver. My sincere thanks for another great job. We can't do the conference without you!"

Charles R. Bell
Program Director,
Rotary Life Leadership