Too Good for Drugs - Grade 2 – Mendez Foundation

Too Good for Drugs in Grade 2 builds a foundation for drug-free living through a fun and interactive journey of setting reachable goals, communicating effectively, and making responsible decisions. The program focuses on developing students’ social skills and reinforces those skills through interactive, engaging activities.

Second graders meet Wagner and his cast of furry friends as they discover how to set reachable goals and make responsible decisions. Students go on a scavenger hunt to find classmates who respond to their emotions in healthy ways, use I-messages to help Wagner communicate assertively, and practice their active listening skills with their Listen Up Pups.

Students help Wagner manage peer pressure from his classmates and learn strategies for refusing the pressure. With the help of their band of healthy superheroes they learn to handle mistakes in healthy ways. Students help Wagner’s friends learn about the safe use prescription and over-the-counter medications and help Wagner make healthy choices so he can make it to hockey practice before he runs out of energy.

Daily Workouts, Home Workouts, and cross-curricular activities follow each lesson so students can practice and apply the concepts developed in each lesson at home and with their peers.

This curriculum kit includes lesson activity materials for classrooms of up to 30 students.

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2019 Edition

Curriculum Kit - Item# A4205

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Program Kits Program Materials

The Too Good toolkit includes everything you need to teach the lessons:

Teacher's Manual
30 Student Workbooks
Wagner Puppet
Stop and Think Poster
Homeward Bound Game Poster
Health Goalie Game Poster
Smart Paws Game Poster
Superhero Team Display Cards
Homeward Bound Activity Cards
Buddy Builder Activity Cards
Health Goalie Activity Cards
Smart Paws Activity Cards
Wagner's Bone Display Card

Curriculum Features include:

Ten 30-minute fully scripted, research-based lessons conveniently presented in a tabbed three-ring binder, making them easy to use and enjoyable to teach.
Comprehensive planner for each lesson with clearly-stated, measurable objectives, topic rationale, and allotted activity times.
Parent component, “Home Workout: Exercises for Adults and Kids,” to extend prevention skills and messages into the home.
Looking for More? Each lesson includes cross-curricular lesson extenders with suggestions for infusion, recommended reading, and additional activities for reinforcing important concepts and skills.
Assessment materials to measure student outcomes and process outcomes including implementation effectiveness and fidelity of implementation as well as student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.
Pre-delivery subject matter content review and lesson delivery guides to prepare instructors for more complex lesson topics
Too Good for Drugs logic model including the program’s theory of change and the proven strategies incorporated into the lessons.
Strategies and methods to build family and school connections to reinforce the healthy social and emotional development of the students.

Lessons Overview RTI / PBIS Alignment Lessons Sample

How does Too Good work?

Too Good for Drugs High School is a dynamic experiential course designed to immerse students in the core social skill development they need to navigate the world they will enter after high school. The experiential learning design applies interactive games and activities to let the students try on and apply the skills and strategies that are best learned through first hand application.

Ten developmentally appropriate lessons address the short and long term health and social consequences of the misuse and abuse of various legal and illegal drugs. Internal, peer, and media influences are factored into discussions and activities exploring the expectations teens have about substance use.

Students also explore these skills to help them face the challenges they can foresee and the obstacles they can’t as they work to reaching their goals.

Substance Use Prevention

Topics include:

THC and Marijuana
Nicotine and Tobacco
Prescription and OTC drugs
Stimulants
Opioids
Alcohol

Develops Core Character Traits

Too Good for Violence - Social Perspectives High School focuses on and mitigates the risk factors that can be positively affected in the classroom: favorable attitudes toward aggression and other problem behaviors and friends who engage in problem behavior.

Too Good builds protection within the student by:

Establishing Positive Norms Including Healthy Beliefs and Clear Standards
Promoting Bonding to Pro-Social Peers
Increasing Personal and Social Skills

Builds core social and emotional learning skills

These social and emotional learning skills enhance success in the classroom and at home. These SEL skills promote self-awareness and social awareness and have been linked with school success and positive development:

Goal Setting
Responsible Decision Making
Bonding with pro-social others
Identifying and managing anger and other emotions
Effective Communication

Understanding the Logic Model

The Mendez Foundation developed Logic Models for Too Good to map out the Theory of Change and demonstrate graphically the assumptions that drive the learning and behavior change in Too Good. 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.

Logic Model

Research Design

Each of the Too Good evaluation studies were conducted by third-party researchers and used randomized treatment-control group designs (pre-test/post-test, 20-week post-test, or one-year follow-up). The Researchers examined pre-test equivalence between treatment and control groups; potential bias of loss of student data over time; quality of program implementation; and estimates of reliability and validity of assessment tools.

The award-winning Too Good programs have undergone rigorous, independent evaluation studies to measure their effects on students' skills, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. Studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national evaluation conferences. These studies demonstrate the effectiveness of Too Good.

Research Reports

2000 Summary 2000 Full Report 2001 Summary 2001 Full Report 2003 Summary 2003 Full Report

2007 Summary 2007 Full Report 2013 Summary 2013 Full Report

Organization/Agency	TGFD K-8	TGFV K-8	TGFD&V High School
What Works Clearinghouse: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Science	Positive effects on behavior View Report	Positive effect on behavior & knowledge, attitudes & values View Report	Positive effect on behavior & knowledge, attitudes & values View Report
CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning	Not Yet Rated	Elementary SELect Program View Report	Not Yet Rated
NREPP: National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs & Practices	Reviewed evaluation View Report	Reviewed evaluation View Report	Reviewed evaluation View Report
CEBC: California Evidence Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare	TGFD Grade 6 Scientific Rating 2 - Supported by Evidence View Report	Not Yet Rated	Not Yet Rated
OJJDP: Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention	Promising program View Report	Exemplary program View Report	Exemplary program View Report
Promising Practices Network: Programs that Work	Screened program View Report	Screened program View Report	Screened program View Report
SAMHSA: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration	Model program	Model program	Model program

Awards

Too Good programs have earned recognition and acclaim for their impact in promoting safer and healthy youth and communities.

Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association's (FADAA) Best Practices Award
The American Medical Association's National Congress on Adolescent Health
The President's Child Safety Partnership
Southeast Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities Shining Star Award
Our programs received a high rating in "Drug Strategies"

Other Recognition

Recognition for Too Good for Drugs™ in Drug Strategies "Making the Grade": "Some very strong elements in this very detailed, 10 session per year curriculum. Provides developmentally appropriate information about alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. Normative education activities creative and compelling, new ideas for games. Includes no-use pledge."

Recognition for Too Good for Violence in Drug Strategies "Safe Schools, Safe Students": "A delightful package of materials (that) complements this highly interactive 4-9 session program. Strongly focused on critical skill areas. Extremely detailed instructions for teachers. Very complete."

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Too Good for Drugs Grade 2 - 2019 Edition Teacher's Manual

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The Teacher's Manual layout and design makes implementation easy with quick set-up and guided materials preparation and lesson objectives and activity timing. The layout...