Preparing Young People for a Future of Excellence
Vision
Through a developmental process, Rising Stars provides a firm foundation to prepare all young people for life-long learning, development, and achievement.
A Self-Development Process
Rising Stars is an innovative and unique inside-out self-development process. This research based approach focuses on three critical elements that promote personal leadership, healthy behaviors, and the skills employers identify as essential. These elements are developed, applied, and reinforced throughout the process and through a follow-up process to strengthen and perpetuate success behaviors.
The Rising Stars helps young people turn potential into performance by developing their most valuable asset – themselves. Self-leadership development is perhaps the most critical component to achieving civic, corporate and community goals. Today more than ever, we need to be aware of the benefit of investing in the development of our young people. The results are practical and measureable.
Potential Outcomes
• Successful application of self-leadership skills
• Seeks out options from diverse alternatives
• Reduction in risk behavior
• Increase in school attendance
• Increase in performance
• Increase in grade point average
• Increase in high school attainment and pot secondary experiences
• Application of new interpersonal skills including time management and conflict resolution
• Goal-oriented, informed decisions
• Effective communication in diverse situations
• Demonstrates leadership in various situations:
- Team-player and/or leader
- Provides a vision and purpose to a cause
- Uses influence to obtain planned outcomes
• Outcomes of the pilot programs research:
- 40% grade point increase
- 56% reduction in school disciplinary/truancy incidents
- 70% increase in college attendance
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