BOUND FOR GREATNESS
The celebrity Bound For Greatness "Inspire Me" student, teacher, parent and administration leadership program. This leadership mentoring program is ideal for schools and districts that have low budgets. The primary goal of this program is to help schools and school districts provide additional educational support services for students, teachers, counselors, coaches, administrators and parents. We visit designated classrooms and areas in the school addressing the principal's/district's objectives.
Inspire Me is designed to improve school climate to prepare students and educators for successful outcomes. We motivate everyone in the building to work harder, to focus and refocus, to commit to academic goals and objectives 100% even when the body wants to slow down or shift into cruise control. Most importantly, with urgency, we help students and teachers start and finish the year strong. We steer students toward productive roles in school and the community. Peer pressure, vandalism, bullying, poor choices and decisions, unacceptable behavior, lack of respect, discipline and tolerance, and lackluster effort seem to creep into classrooms. Inspire Me words that off.
Inspire Me Program Information
You can implement the program in the Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter. It is ideal for schools interested in improving school climate, enhancing teamwork, leadership skills, academic performance, parental involvement, connecting students, teachers, and parents to the overall vision of the administrative teams goals and objectives.
The host of Inspire Me is Duane D. West, the nationally acclaimed On-Air Motivational TV Personality (NBC TV). D. West was honored by the President's Office Of The United States for his work with children and accomplishments in sports and fitness. He was honored on national TV as America’s leading celebrity youth motivator, and he appeared on the Oprah Show.
Inspire Me Program Options
D. West or a member of our team will visits your school or school district or city biweekly for the full fiscal school year. Each visit is 30 - 60 minutes. You and, or your team/school principal selects the target student body or classroom visits, for example:
Option I.
D. West will visit designated classrooms throughout the building for 30 - 45 minutes. He will go to various grade levels of your choice. Each classroom visit is 5 - 10 minutes. D. West gives an inspirational pep-talk or lecture, he ends with Q & A in every room. The presentation focuses on the principal’s or Superintendent of School’s goals and objectives.
Option II.
• D. West will work with a target class, grade level or group such as special needs students, at-risk students, disaffected students.
• Student leaders, followers or BULLIES.
• Students who are involved in GANG activity.
• All male and/or female student leadership mentoring.
• Alternative education class/students.
• A low achieving grade level, class, select group of students or students with a 2.0 GPA.
Inspire Me Program Agenda
D. West or Bobby Jackson, Former NY Jets will meet with your target classes/student body inside a classroom or in an area that has seats and tables to accommodate the students. The duration of the school visit is 1 hour. Time-on-task is not affected with short inspirational lectures and pep-talks.
At the end of each session, our lead facilitator meets with the school’s program coordinator or the principal of the school. We discuss program updates, give and receive feedback, review student progress, reinforcement needs, behavior management issues, conflict resolution strategies and initiatives, set new goals and plan curriculum for the following leadership session.
All workshops are strategically planned in advance and placed on a syllabus. We address your monthly target goals that are aligned with our program topics of discussion. Our leadership topics of discussion will be facilitated from our curriculum teacher’s resource book “The Navigator”.
Additional Support Services
• There is parental involvement support and workshops for parents.
Please review our topics of discussion, choose several topics from our list that align with your leadership goals and initiatives. Email us the topics. When we receive your topics of interest, we will prepare a program syllabus for your school, school district. Visits with this program are coordinated with flexibility.
Program Topics of Discussion
• Leadership
• Anti-bullying/Cyberbullying
• Behavior Management
• Making Good Choices and Decisions
• Peer Pressure
• Tolerance
• Vandalism
• Anti-violence
• Anti-drugs
• Diversity
• Respect
• Goal Setting
• Discipline
• Acceptance
• Conflict Resolution
• Health, Nutrition, Sports and Fitness
• Career Development
• Life Skills Enhancement
• Gang Prevention & Intervention
• Teen Relationship and Dating Violence
• Integrity
• Literacy
• Hazing
• Dropout Prevention and Intervention
• Importance of Education
We use the power of our celebrity influence to direct students toward academic leadership initiatives and higher achievement in the classroom. We engage students in the learning process, enhance students leadership skills, improve school climate and navigate students toward productive roles in school and the community. We help schools minimize the social issues and behavior management problems that frequently occur.
