We offer two different evidence-based intervention courses for students.

Traditional School Course

Competing as a Lifestyle: You vs. You – A Student’s Guide to Greatness. With pullout classes conducted twice-a-week, students work with Dream Builders to receive personal life coaching to help them justify the change process and reverse-navigate their social sphere to conquer peer pressure and poor choices. Students progressively take ownership of their habits, disciplines, and their own achievement. Teaching and leading becomes easier when students are motivated and hungry for their own progress.

Non-Traditional and Alternative School Programs

For students needing more intensive tier 3 interventions, we offer a character-based curriculum and small-group life-coaching sessions. We focus on one character quality a week. Our Dream Builders spend 15-20 minutes at the beginning of each day reviewing the character quality, offering different activities to maximize student engagement. By Friday, students will be able to discuss the character quality and apply it to their own lives.

Spending the first half of the day at the alternative placement site, our life coaches target kids based on how long they have been assigned, scheduling them for small group coaching based on their personal needs. When they return to home buildings, our Dream Builders follow-up, reviewing grades, re-affirming strategies, providing encouragement, and more. We believe in building real relationships with students, so we don’t forget about them when they return to their traditional school placements.

Customization

While we have seen our models work at both urban and suburban high schools, we are always willing to work with your district, customizing our approach to meet your needs. To learn more about our evidence-based interventions courses, contact us.

At Dream Builders University we have worked diligently over the past ten years to perfect our anti-bullying tools for school districts. We have provided these tools to schools across the country, and we have experienced documented success with parents, students, and teachers.

Bullying Problem

• 90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying.
• 71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.
• As boys age, they are less and less likely to feel sympathy for victims of bullying. In fact, they are more likely to add to the problem than solve it.
• By age 14, less than 30% of boys and 40% of girls will talk to their peers about bullying.

We help students build positive self-images to combat their negative internal voice; what we call “self-bullying.”  Sometimes, kids with negative internal voices project that negativity onto other kids, continuing the cycle. That’s why our anti-bullying efforts start by strengthening students’ sense of self.

Our curriculum and products are designed to build positive self-image, to promote resilience, and to create a unified culture where children resist bullies through a constructive mindset. Our books focus on social and emotional learning supports, creating a consistent intersection between conflict and the next steps for solving conflict.

Our Children’s Book Series Tools

“Malik’s Big Dream” and “Malik the Difference Maker” uses the power of storytelling to foster critical classroom conversations. Our associated curriculum guide can be implemented to bolster lesson planning and student engagement. Embedded lessons review topics like courage, bullying, positive self-image, critical thinking, forgiveness, collaboration, and dream building.

When you purchase our “Courage Bundles,” you get everything you need to build a positive school culture around these embedded lessons, including features such as:

• Student Books
• Teacher’s Guide
• Bookmarks
• Posters
• T-shirts
• Wristbands

To learn more about our bundles, click here for Malik’s Big Dream, and click here for Malik the Difference Maker. Our bundles can be customized to fit your needs. For more information, contact us.