Social Emotional Learning | Bullying Prevention | Social Perspectives Grade 6

In Too Good for Violence - Social Perspectives Grade 6, students gain the insight and tools they need to become positive role models in their schools and communities. The skills promoted in this evidence-based prevention program boost students’ self-confidence and enhance their commitment to making healthy choices and reaching their goals on their journeys to live safe, healthy, and violence-free lives.

Students practice setting reachable goals, making responsible decisions, and communicating effectively with pro-social peers in fun, interactive games, activities, and role-play. They are encouraged to consider the consequences of their actions before making decisions to avoid negative consequences and study various scenarios and work together to think of alternative affirmative choices to produce positive outcomes.

Students share ways to identify and manage their emotions in healthy ways so they can stay calm and not become overwhelmed by them. Sixth graders discuss the role of reporting bullying situations for the benefit and safety of everyone involved and practice peaceful methods to manage bullying situations in a healthy way for the bully, the target, and the witnesses.

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.

The Social Perspectives Grade 6 Curriculum Kit is available in two sizes.

Standard Curriculum Kit - for classrooms of up to 24 students.
Large Curriculum Kit - for classrooms of up to 30 students.

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Grade 6 Middle School Program Kits Program Materials Too Good for Violence-Social Perspectives Middle School 6-8

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

Teacher Manual
30 Student Workbooks
Goal Setting Poster
Decision Making Poster
Peer Refusal Strategy Display Cards
Goal Criteria Response Cards
Conflict Approach Display Cards
4 Role Play Script Sets
Peace It Together Puzzle
Ready. Set. Goal! Activity Cards and Boards
Express Line Activity Cards
btw... Activity Cards
Finish Line Activity Cards
Game Pawns and One Die

Curriculum Features include:

Scripted Design - Ten 50-minute fully scripted, research-based lessons conveniently presented in a tabbed spiral-bound book, making them easy to use and enjoyable to teach.
Comprehensive Lesson Planner 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.
Comprehensive Pre-Delivery Training Component covering Character Education and Normative Education concepts, Fidelity of Implementation, as well as guidance for facilitating discussions about various conflict and peer influence topics.
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

Comprehensive Prevention Education

Social Perspectives is a universal violence prevention 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.

Too Good offers developmentally appropriate curricula for Kindergarten through High School. Each grade level builds on previous levels developing the skills sequentially with engaging, age-appropriate lessons and activities.

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

Strengths-Based Skills Development

A Peaceable Place 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 include:

Conflict Resolution
Anger Management
Respect for Self and Others
Identifying and Managing Bullying Situations
Problem Solving

Develops Core Character Traits

A Peaceable Place promotes character development by strengthening nine character traits:

Caring
Cooperation
Courage
Fairness
Honesty
Respect
Responsibility
Self-discipline
Integrity

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.

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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