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Boys 2 MENtors® is a leadership program for middle and high school boys. This curriculum manual comprises 50 interactive sessions that address social emotional learning, leadership, and Common Core standards and that provide opportunities to link to the school day curriculum. Based on research on male adolescent development as well as direct classroom experience and application, the program has been designed to be facilitated over the course of a school year, engaging young men mentally and providing a distinctly physical component, sometimes light, sometimes rigorous. The curricular framework is scaffolded through six components:

• LEAD UP—Introduction to leadership themes and expectations, creating a socially and emotionally safe and positive peer group.
• WHAT’S UP?—Examining the diverse characteristics of identity among young men.
• STEP UP—Developing a sense of collaboration among the group and honing interpersonal relationship skills.
• OWN UP—Developing a sense of pride and accountability regarding life choices.
• MAN UP—Determining the characteristics of a positive male role model.
• RISE UP—Creating a vision and actionable plans for the future.

Boys 2 MENtor® has been field-tested in urban sites and has received accolades from participants and schools, reporting improvements in key areas that include peer connectedness, independent thinking skills, understanding the relationship between effort and excellence, and a range of protective factors such as future orientation and goal setting. The companion Boys 2 MENtors® Student Workbook offers an opportunity for students to take ownership of their participation and build a body of responses to and reflections on themes relevant to their lives. The title, Boys 2 MENtors®, refers to the development of young men into positive male role models—future mentors for other young men—and to the role of facilitators as exemplars and guides for boys participating in the program.

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Publié par	Girl Friday Books
Date de parution	27 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781959411055
Langue	English
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Copyright © 2022 The Leadership Program
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No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
Created by The Leadership Program, New York www.theleadershipprogram.com
The Leadership Program 535 8th Avenue, Floor 16 New York, NY 10018

Published by Girl Friday Books TM , Seattle www.girlfridaybooks.com
Produced by Girl Friday Productions
ISBN (print) 978-1-959411-01-7 ISBN (ebook) 978-1-959411-05-5

Contents
Introduction
Program Overview
The Leadership Program: Who We Are
Boys 2 MENtors™ Curriculum Overview
Facilitation Tips
Our Process: The Experiential Learning Cycle
Preparation Essentials
Inside the Activity
Section One: Lead Up / Introduction
Objective: To create a socially and emotionally cohesive, safe, and positive peer group
Elements of Leadership
Values to Stand On
Setting Expectations
The Ideal Role Model Leader
Section Two: What’s Up? / Identity
Objective: To examine the diverse characteristics of identity among young men
Heritage
Why I Am the Way I Am
Around My Way
My Heritage: Giving Meaning to Culture and Tradition
Who Am I?
Body Positive
Me in the World
Which Me Do You See?
Inside the Outside
Section Three: Step Up / Interacting
Objective: To develop a sense of collaboration among the group and to hone interpersonal relationship skills
Communication
Active Listening
What’s on Your Mind?
Our Society
Perception Is Someone’s Reality, Parts 1, 2, and 3
Family / How I Contribute at Home
In the Zone
My Many Roles
Healthy Relationships
What Is a Relationship?
Who’s the Man?
Building Healthy Relationships
Section Four: Own Up / Personal Responsibility
Objective: To develop a sense of pride and accountability regarding life choices
Respect for All / Diversity
Message Mayhem
Compassion, Olympic-Style
When the Sky Turns Green
Respect for Women, Parts 1 and 2
A Web of Opinions
Investment in Education
What’s My Style? Parts 1, 2, and 3
Directing My Own Education
Citizen Me
Home Is Where the Help Is
Doing the Right Thing
We’re All in This Together!
Section Five: Man Up / My Roles as a Man
Objective: To determine and develop the characteristics of a positive male role model
Fathers and Fatherhood
Father Figures
Stepping into My Vision
What It Means to Be a Successful Man
Channel Success News
The Successful Man, Parts 1 and 2
Navigating the Dynamics of Power Relationships
Authority Figures
Life Is a Marathon
Respect and Authority
Section Six: Rise Up / Future Plans
Objective: To create a vision and actionable plans for the future
Problem Solving / Facing Challenges
Failure as Growth
Making Decisions
Decision Making
Choices, Decisions, Consequences
Goal Setting
Sounds like a Plan!
Stepping Up to Success
Future Me / College, Career, Legacy
Seeing Myself in College
Qualities of a Career
Leaving My Legacy
Virtual Interviews
Final Project
Young Men Rising
Reference
Theoretical Rationale
Reference List
Credits

Introduction
Program Overview
The Leadership Program: Who We Are
For over twenty years, The Leadership Program has worked to provide educational institutions of all types and sizes with youth development activities, professional development workshops, and curricula that help schools expand and enrich their academic communities.
Based in New York City, we have served more than 250 school administrations and organizations nationwide and internationally; we have worked tirelessly to create innovative and engaging curricula that provide schools assistance with youth engagement, parent involvement, management, organization, educational enrichment, strategic planning, and evaluation of their team.
We are highly regarded in the realm of educational consulting and professional development, and are regularly invited to present at national conferences on topics ranging from social-emotional learning to motivating your staff.
The Leadership Program: works with over 18,000 students, 500 teachers, and 6,000 parents annually created and implements a conflict-resolution project that has been designated the highest-rated leadership-themed universal adolescent violence prevention program in the country by SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) created an empirically validated Conflict Resolution Project, one of thirty-five in the country, and designated a Promising Program by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was included in a 2008 Johns Hopkins research study for the Department of Defense as one of five organizations in the United States that significantly enhances positive school culture through professional development, organization, and youth development created two of the seven programs in New York State (two of the seventy-three in the nation) designated to have Promising Practices by the Academy for Educational Development believes that, with the right help, every person has the innate ability to lead the change
Boys 2 Mentors™ Curriculum Overview
Welcome to the Boys 2 MENtors TM curriculum. Boys 2 MENtors TM is a yearlong after-school program for adolescent boys, composed of leadership, community building, positive empowerment, and goal-oriented activities. The program is intended to address the unique circumstances of growing up male, and to promote healthy identity exploration and positive youth development. Boys 2 MENtorstm emerged out of the realization that many of our young men are in search of a space to explore and examine the wide array of issues that speak to them so particularly. The curriculum is based on research on male adolescent development as well as direct classroom experience and application. With this curriculum, we have made special efforts to not only design lessons that engage students mentally but also provide a distinctly physical component, sometimes light, sometimes rigorous. Boys 2 MENtorstm was built to reflect the energy and learning styles of young men; it has been field-tested in urban sites and has received accolades from participants and schools.
The title, Boys 2 MENtors TM , refers both to the development of young men into positive male role models—future mentors for other young men—and to the role of program facilitators as exemplars and guides for boys participating in the program.
This comprehensive curriculum is structured to support both experienced and beginning facilitators. Using this manual will help you effectively facilitate the Boys 2 MENtors TM curriculum, ensuring the best possible experience for student participants.
The curriculum contains forty-four lessons. All lessons have been designed by The Leadership Program and have been refined for optimum effectiveness and student engagement. The lessons are organized into six components and are designed to engage students through a variety of activities. All lessons are scaffolded to build community, develop trust, and ensure cohesiveness within the group. With this scaffolding, the activities provide students avenues for self-reflection, team building, and dynamic self-expression, inspiring them to use new and creative thinking to craft a vision for their future.
The six components are as follows:
Component Title
Objective
Lead Up / Introduction
To create a socially and emotionally cohesive, safe, and positive peer group.
What’s Up? / Identity
To examine the diverse characteristics of identity among young men.
Step Up / Interacting
To develop a sense of collaboration among the group and to hone interpersonal relationship skills.
Own Up / Personal Responsibility
To develop a sense of pride and accountability regarding life choices.
Man Up / My Roles as a Man
To determine and develop the characteristics of a positive male role model.
Rise Up / Future Plans
To create a vision and actionable plans for the future.
All lessons follow the same structure to provide a consistent framework for every session. The lessons open with information and tools to help in your facilitation and continue with step-by-step instructions for each activity.
Each lesson begins with the following information: Lesson Objective—what students will achieve through the lesson Summary—a brief description of the activities during the lesson Aim—the question to be answered through lesson activities and processing Standards—the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) standards (based on New York State SEL and CASEL guidelines) that are met when the lesson is facilitated according to instructions Materials—a specific list of the materials to prepare to facilitate each particular lesson, including masters of handouts and worksheets, where applicable Handouts—information and reference pages, available for participants in their Student Writing Companions Worksheets—activity pages to be filled in by students during lessons, available in the Student Writing Companions Vocabulary—significant words used in each lesson, to be incorporated throughout the activities Facilitator Note—an alert when