Too Good OST Activity Kit

Comprehensive Prevention Education

Too Good OST is a universal prevention education and character education program that promotes the development of the skills, attitudes, and behaviors consistent with positive, pro-social living to encourage healthy emotions management and actions, respect between peers, and self-awareness and social awareness to foster supportive and respectful learning environments.

Flexible Implementation Design

Too Good OST is designed to meet the needs of the out of school space with small format activities that can be delivered as part of multiple learning tracks. Activities are grouped by Learning Focus and then by subtopics within the focus group. Instructors can choose which activities suit their instruction priorities.  If particular outcomes are desired, learning tracks can be customized.

Too Good OST offers developmentally appropriate activities for young learners ages 5-11 in three activity sets tailored to the readiness at each age group. Each age group builds on previous levels developing the skills sequentially with engaging, age-appropriate activities.

Kinesthetic Learning

Too Good OST is designed to continue learning beyond the school day in an active environment that doesn't feel like more school.  The learning activities get the students up and moving to engage their bodies and their imaginations.  Cooperative activity designs bring the whole group together to share, solve problems, and explore new ideas as they practice and apply the prevention concepts in the course.

Sequential Reinforcement

Too Good OST equips students with the tools to make informed choices, develop healthy behaviors, and navigate challenges effectively by sequentially layering knowledge and skills development. This approach ensures that the learning is not only comprehensive but also relevant and applicable to the evolving needs and experiences of the students over time.

Strengths-Based Skills Development

Too Good OST introduces and develops self-efficacy and interpersonal skills linked with healthy development and academic success to promote self-awareness and social awareness:

• Setting Reachable Goals
• Making Responsible Decisions
• Identifying and Managing Emotions
• Communicating Effectively
• Bonding with Prosocial Peers

Additional skills development and application concepts built into the course to promote positive social development and pro-social peer bonding and practice for avoiding unhealthy behaviors and resisting negative influences include:

• Conflict Resolution
• Anger Management
• Respect for Self and Others
• Identifying and Managing Bullying Situations
• Problem Solving
• Developing Healthy Friendships
• Managing Peer Pressure
• Identifying and Avoiding Harmful Substances
• Making Healthy Choices
• Having a Positive Outlook

Mitigates risk factors and builds protective factors

Too Good focuses on the risk factors and negative social norms that can be positively affected in the classroom: favorable attitudes toward substance use, violence, and other problem behaviors and friends who engage in problem behavior.

Too Good builds protection within the student by:

• Providing opportunities for pro-social involvement
• Establishing positive norms including healthy beliefs and clear standards
• Promoting bonding to pro-social peers
• Increasing self-efficacy and interpersonal skills

Develops Core Character Traits

Too Good OST promotes character development by strengthening ten character traits:

• Caring
• Cooperation
• Courage
• Fairness
• Honesty
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Self-discipline
• Integrity
• Perseverance

Understanding the Logic Model

The Logic Model for Too Good OST maps out the Theory of Change that underpins the activity design and method and demonstrates graphically the assumptions that drive Too Good OST. The logic model communicates an "if-then" message of what changes the program intends to produce. It helps to make the connections among the target group, goals, strategies, objectives and planned program results and lays out what the program is expected to achieve and how it is expected to work.

Too Good OST Logic Model