Proven
Strategies for Safer Schools, Healthier Students, Higher Performance
Schools
today are in a serious bind. They're being forced to meet stronger
academic standards with the most diverse group of students in human
history, while also dealing with a wide range of social issues that
most teachers have never been trained in. Schools face problematic
social behavior that interferes with learning and threatens the safety
of both students and their teachers.
Ripple
Effects provides and supports software tools to help solve this dilemma.
If you're looking for effective ways to reduce aggressive behavior,
transform school climate, and improve academic performance, Ripple
Effects software tools can help. They enable you to create an environment
that is at once warmer and more disciplined, where no one is a victim
and everyone can succeed - both academically and socially.
Hundreds
of schools in the United States and Internationally are using the
programs. District of Columbia Public Schools selected Ripple Effects
software as a model program for its Character Education Initiative.
In January 2005, the SIIA named two Ripple Effects software
programs as finalists in its prestigeous Codie Awards, bringing to 25 the number of awards
they've garnered.
Ripple
Effects' scaleable, flexible social learning software shows promising results.
In a recent NIDA-funded study,
evidence indicated that the teen version boosted grades, reduced discipline problems, and strengthened norms about drugs.
These
easy-to-use software programs:
Decrease
aggressive and antisocial behavior, transforming playground bullies
into potential best friends, turning troublemakers into problem-solvers.
Empower
students with special needs to deal with teasing, threats and stereotypes,
and enables victims to become their own advocates.
Increase
respect for all and appreciation for diversity.
Reduce
involvement in risky and unhealthy behavior.
Improve
academic performance and reduce the need for remedial services,
including summer school.
How?
By combining effective strategies for changing behavior with a media
rich, engaging presentation that can reach learners of all levels
and from all backgrounds. They:
Develop
proficiency in key social-emotional abilities that are more connected
to school and life success than IQ and technical ability combined.
Provide
proven, evidence-based strategies for dealing with pressure to cheat,
steal, smoke, drink, fight, have sex, or do drugs.
Give
students a source of immediate, confidential and reliable help with
personal problems, a way to find a language for what is bothering
them, and the skills to get the further help they need.
Leverage
educators' ability to address critical social issues, without adding
to their already overburdened workload.
Enable
teachers to effectively reach more students, and students to learn
more easily, by accommodating different learning styles.
Learn
more.
See
how others are using Ripple Effects'
social learning programs.
Get
price and ordering information.
Find
sources to fund your investment
in Ripple Effects' social learning software tools.
Get
the results of the study by
investigators from Teachers College, Columbia University and New York
University.
See
the awards, praise,
and press acclaim Ripple Effects
programs have received.
Get
help implementing these programs in your setting. Ripple Effects provides
support services - assessment,
training, customized plans, implementation support, e-mentoring, and
help with effectiveness evaluation-to help you get results with our
programs.
To
view an online walkthrough of our products, please contact Ripple
Effects via e-mail or
call our toll free number (888-259-6618), and we'll send you the access
code. If you have a fast Internet connection and the Flash 5 or 6
Player you can view an
online version of the Ripple Effects for Teens product.
"I
get into less trouble, because when I use the program I realize what
I can do to change my behavior."
Katherine,
teen user at The Opportunity Place, Central School, Lafourche Parish
