Read! Lead! Succeed!Read! Lead! Succeed! (Formerly Turning Bullies into Buddies ) empowers youth to contribute to a positive community by addressing social issues with a youth-driven, collaborative project. The program is designed to help participants to be effective problem-solvers by benefiting from and making use of the written word and spoken language, enhancing their social awareness while improving their emotional management skills, and becoming more caring individuals with concern and respect for others. Afterschool programs are able to choose from two strands: Literate Leaders or Turning Bullies into Buddies. In both strands, participants utilize a process that includes researching a problem to increase knowledge, working as a team to apply knowledge and reflecting to understand the experience. Each series is comprised of six, one-hour sessions. Read! Lead! Succeed! provides a six-session model for afterschool programs.
Resilience Lesson ActivitiesThis set of Read! Lead! Succeed! program lesson activities theme is Resilience. Click on each YouTube icon below to view the lesson activities: Resilience Book 1: Bounce Back Additional Lesson ActivitiesBelow are five lesson themes from the Read! Lead! Succeed! program that covers Staying Calm, Personal Strength, Sharing is Caring, Humor Helps and Gratitude for Essential Workers. Click on each YouTube icon below to view the lesson activities: Strength Book: Ricky the Rock Who Couldn’t Roll Strength Activity: Strong as a Rock! Sharing & Strength Book: The Story of Stone Soup Sharing Book: Everybody Needs a Rock Sharing Activity: Sharing is Caring! Sharing Book: Last Stop on Market Street Sharing Book: What is Given from the Heart Gratitude Book: The Giving Tree Gratitude Book: Splat Says Thank You! Gratitude Book: The Secret of Saying Thanks Gratitude Book: A Gratitude Attitude
For more information, contact Lauren Pedic, Read! Lead! Succeed Program Manager, email: LPedic@literacypbc.org, or call: (561) 767-3375 Read! Lead! Succeed is made possible with support from Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc., which receives significant funding for its overall operations from the Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County.
Read! Lead! Succeed! offers a social emotional learning curriculum, using high-quality children’s literature and literature-based activities to children in afterschool and summer camp programs. Community Impact
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TestimonialsYouth practice ways to process and handle their emotions. he Read! Lead! Succeed! program helped children navigate through the changes of the pandemic by providing literacy-based experiences, discussions, and activities designed to foster social-emotional learning. We helped students build resiliency with our “Bounce Back” series. Children discussed forgiveness in our “Pardon Me, Please” lesson series and decided to choose hope, peace and joy during the sessions on Emotional Choices. |