The Too Good toolkit includes everything you need to teach the lessons:
Too Good offers separate, developmentally appropriate curricula for each grade level in grades six through eight. Each grade level builds on the previous by continually developing skills and addressing common issues faced in middle school life, teaching students how to manage situations in a positive and healthy way.
Too Good uses skill development to mitigate the risks associated with problem behaviors including:
Too Good builds protection within the student by:
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:
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.
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.
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Organization/Agency | TGFD K-8 | TGFV K-8 | TGFD&V High School |
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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 |
Too Good programs have earned recognition and acclaim for their impact in promoting safer and healthy youth and communities.
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."
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...
The Student Workbook is an integral part of the lessons. Students launch into the activities as they learn the fundamentals...
The Student Workbook is an integral part of the lessons. Students launch into the activities as they learn the fundamentals...
Tuggles is a huggable, plush bear ready to bring your Too Good lessons to life. Your class won't be able...
Whatchamacallit is just too long a word to fit on this cute little inflatable ball, so we call it What'sit?....
The home is full of useful things grownups use to clean, do laundry, or repair items, but these items aren't...
The home is full of useful things grownups use to clean, do laundry, or repair items, but these items aren't...
The home is full of useful things grownups use to clean, do laundry, or repair items, but these items aren't...
The home is full of useful things grownups use to clean, do laundry, or repair items, but these items aren't...
Tuggles helps the students differentiate medicine and comforting items we might have to help us feel better when we are sick....
Tuggles helps the students differentiate medicine and comforting items we might have to help us feel better when we are sick....
Tuggles and Rose are at Summer Camp. In this fun whole class activity, the students work together to overcome challenges so...
Tuggles and Rose are at Summer Camp. In this fun whole class activity, the students work together to overcome challenges so...
In the Can Do! Game, the students help Tuggles find out if he is old enough to do a variety of...
In the Can Do! Game, the students help Tuggles find out if he is old enough to do a variety of activities....
In Play Ball!, the class works together to help Tuggles stop to think through a number of decisions so he can...
In Play Ball!, the class works together to help Tuggles stop to think through a number of decisions so he can collect his...
In Tuggles Goes to the Doctor, Tuggles wakes up feeling ill. When readers join him on a trip to the doctor’s...
When Tuggles is pressured by a group of friends to engage in unsafe behavior in Tuggles has a Better Idea, he...
In Tuggles Catches a Feeling, Tuggles goes on a fishing adventure with his grandpa. The day includes a range of relatable...
Tuggles uses the decision making model to solve his problem in Tuggles Stops to Think. When his ball bounces out of...
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