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Too Good for Violence - Social Perspectives Grade 8 Kit

Too Good for Violence - Social Perspectives Grade 8 Kit

In Grade 8, the evidence-based Too Good for Violence Revised - Social Perspectives program uses interactive games, role-play, visual aids, and fun activities to introduce, develop, and reinforce the social-emotional skills students need to build positive relationships and make healthy choices. Students learn to set goals, make good decisions, manage emotions, and effectively communicate. Students  practice using these skills to self-regulate, peacefully resolve conflict, and respond to bullying situations.

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Item #C8850 

$305.95


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

  • Teacher's Manual
  • 25 Student Workbooks
  • Goal Setting Poster
  • Decision Making Poster and Accessories
  • Healthy Relationship Poster 
  • Grade 8 Role Play Cards
  • Goal Setting Scramble Puzzle, 4 sets
  • Spend or Save Board Game, 4 sets
  • The Buddy System Card Game, 4 sets
  • What's the Deal Card Game, 4 sets

Curriculum Features include:

  • Ten fully scripted fifty minute lessons.  
  • Clearly stated, measurable objectives and a list of materials needed to teach the lesson. 
  • Teacher prompts and anticipated student responses keep the delivery easy, paced and on time.
  • Assessment materials to measure program effectiveness, fidelity of implementation, and student knowledge.
  • "Home Workout: Exercises for adults and kids," extends skill development and messages into the home for practice and reinforcement. 
  • "Looking for More?" with extending learning, recommended reading, and additional activities to reinforce important concepts and skills.  Program logic model including the program's research base and theory of change and the proven strategies incorporated into the lessons. 
  • Strategies for building family and school connectedness to reinforce the healthy social and emotional development of the students in and out of school. 

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Too Good for Violence 6-8

Too Good for Violence 6-8 is a universal violence prevention, bully prevention, and character education program using social and emotional learning to develop skills for conflict resolution, anger management, and respect for self and others. In Middle School, students learn the negative consequences of aggressive behavior. Engaging, age-appropriate lessons develop personal and interpersonal skills such as, learning to respect others and celebrating their differences. Students also learn how to avoid and resolve conflict through effective communication, anger management, emotional self-awareness, and self-control.

Too Good for Violence is social emotional learning

Too Good for Violence teaches the following social and emotional learning skills, which research has linked with healthy development and academic success:

  • Conflict resolution
  • Anger Management
  • Respect for Self and Others
  • Effective Communication

Too Good for Violence develops core character traits

Too Good for Violence promotes character development by strengthening eight key character traits:

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

How does Too Good work?

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.

 

Mitigates risk factors and builds protective factors

Too Good uses skill development to mitigate the risks associated with problem behaviors including:

  • Poor Social Skills
  • Peer Rejection
  • Inappropraite Social Behaviors
  • Favorable Attitudes Toward Drug Use
  • Low Perception of Harm
  • Friends Who Engage In Problem Behaviors

Too Good builds protection within the student by:

  • Providing Opportunities for Pro-Social Involvement
  • Establishing No-Use Norms
  • Promoting Bonding to Pro-Social Peers
  • Increasing Personal and Interpersonal Skills Associated with Positive Behaviors and Student Success

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 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.

TGFV 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.

Too Good for Violence  Research Reports

2001 Summary 2001 Full Report 2003 Summary 2003 Full Report 2005 Summary 2005 Full Report

Organization/Agency TGFD TGFV TGFD&V
NREPP: National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs & Practices Reviewed evaluation
View Report		 Reviewed evaluation
View Report		 Reviewed evaluation
View Report
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
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

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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