Lead ‘Em Up Classroom

The curriculum is designed for use with middle and high school students (grades 6-12). If you have the desire to incorporate the curriculum at the Collegiate level please email [email protected] for special programming options available.

Absolutely. The curriculum has been uniquely designed to serve your SEL and/or PBIS needs helping advance student performance, enhancing social-emotional skills, and elevating positive behaviors among students.

The 12 Curriculum is designed for teaching 1-2 teaching sessions a week, 30-50 minute teaching blocks with 18-weeks of content. The 12 Curriculum consists of 5 teaching themes (vision, accountability, followership, communication and relationships), 14 Lead ‘Em Up teaching concepts and 4 fun transitional activities.

The 35 curriculum is designed for teaching 3-5 teaching sessions a week, 30-50 minute teaching blocks with 18-weeks of content. The 35 Curriculum consist of 7 teaching themes (vision, accountability, followership, communication, relationships, focus and self-awareness), 22 Lead ‘Em Up teaching concepts and 6 fun transitional activities.

Single Teacher is for a single teacher who wants to teach Lead ‘Em Up (single-user access)

Full School is for schools that will have multiple teachers teaching the program rolling it out beyond a single class (multiple-user access)

The curriculum has been built by a collection of educators and creatives along with input from students over the past 8-years since we launched in 2015.

The curriculum is an interactive, thoughtful, and fun curriculum designed to engage and excite students into developing their leadership and character. We also tap into the intrinsic competitive motivators as each student works to get “Verified”.

We are void of lectures, workbooks, quizzes, and tests, while also discouraging the use of heavy text-filled slides (we do provide you slides but each slide has minimal text simply to spotlight themes)

Each exercise and teaching concept has gone through our M-P-S filter (is it Memorable, is the lesson Portable and are we using language that Sticks to the minds and hearts of our students) and then is Teacher-Tested & Student-Approved prior to making it into our curriculum.

Our foundational teaching is our Green Team Framework which every student gets introduced to at the beginning of the program. The Framework helps students understand how they need to show up each day and where they help others get to. As the student moves up in the Green Team, they become closer to earning “Verification” status which is voted on periodically by students and approved by teachers.

As one educator in St. Louis said, the Green Team is like a “Leadership Cheat Code” for students, figuring out all the right buttons to push to get kids excited about growing as a leader.

That’s a great question!

Schools have been successful in rolling it out in a variety of ways. We have schools where a single teacher is teaching in a Leadership class, some teachers are incorporating it into a pre-existing Health class (or Physical Education class – we originated in athletes so there are easy tie-backs to PE), many schools are teaching it in their advisory periods with each teacher learning and teaching the curriculum, some have created it as a Freshman-only class that’s led by a handful of select teachers.

Many options to consider. We just encourage you to find the approach that works best for you and then constantly look for ways to improve as you go through it.