HOW IT WORKS

How Does Success Highways Work?
Success Highways is a customized combination of resiliency assessment, curriculum, and professional development designed to meet the unique needs of our educational partners and their students.

Assessment & Reporting
Curriculum
Professional Development


Assessment & Reporting
Success Highways uses a formative and summative Resiliency Assessment to measure students’ aptitude and progress in the Six Key Academic Resiliency Skills which are:

1. Importance of Education
2. Academic Confidence
3. Connections to Educators and Positive Role Models
4. Ability to Handle Academic Anxiety
5. Sense of Well-Being
6. Intrinsic Motivation

The Success Highways resiliency assessments were developed throughout 15 years of major university studies with large, heterogeneous and geographically diverse samples. Our assessments have also been revalidated as an effective measure of resiliency. View a sample of a Success Highways Student Assessment

Data from each assessment is provided to students and educators to offer valuable information and insight. Reports include:

• Individualized Student Reports: These individualized reports show the results of each student’s resiliency assessment compared with a normative group. Students use the report in tandem with their personalized “My Success Roadmap” to analyze the barriers that may be in the way of their academic success. Students then create their own academic plan to overcome those barriers.
  View a sample Success Highways Student Report


• School/District Reports: Success Highways offers a wide variety of reports for districts and schools including reports that provide an aggregate analysis of an entire district, specific schools, and even individual analysis of each student’s resiliency and growth.
  View a detailed analysis of the Success Highways District Report
  View a sample Success Highways School Resiliency Skill Assessment Report
  View a sample Success Highways School Needs Assessment Report
  

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Curriculum
The Success Highways curriculum is available in two phases.

Success Highways (Phase 1/Year 1)
    For students who have never used Success Highways

Success Highways: Down the Road (Phase 2/Year 2)
    For students who have completed Phase I of the Success Highways program

Success Highways (Phase 1/Year 1)
The Success Highways resiliency curriculum includes 15, 45-minute lessons that build the essential resiliency skills research has shown are necessary to increase academic outcomes.

Lesson Framework
A research-developed pedagogy guides how Success Highways is taught. Each resiliency skill is covered in a unit (usually 2-4, 45-minute lessons per unit).

Unit 1	Lesson 1	Your Future
	Lesson 2	Your Goals
	Lesson 3	Career Ideas
	Lesson 4	Importance of School
Unit 2	Lesson 5	Confidence
	Lesson 6	Analyzing Confidence
Unit 3	Lesson 7	Social Support
	Lesson 8	Analyzing Support and Connection
Unit 4	Lesson 9	Stress
	Lesson 10	Analyzing Stress
Unit 5	Lesson 11	Health and Well-Being
	Lesson 12	Analyzing Well-Being
Unit 6	Lesson 13	Motivation
	Lesson 14	Analyzing Motivation
Unit 7	Lesson 15	Action Planning

During each unit, students will have the ability to:

• Study the objective definition of the resiliency skill
• Create their own subjective definition of the resiliency skill
• Listen to the teacher’s own personal story about his/her experience with the resiliency skill and how it related to his/her educational goals
• Participate in standards-based classroom activities involving the skill (case study analysis, group discussions, research)
• View and reflect on the students' personal resiliency data as compared to a validated sample
• Create a personal action plan to overcome any resiliency deficiencies and galvanize resiliency strengths

At the culmination of the program, Lesson 15, students create a personal action plan based on the student objective data and personal desire for academic growth.

Teacher Materials

Teacher’s Guide
The comprehensive Teacher’s Guide contains the 15, 45-minute lesson plans and provides teachers with all the tools they need to effectively foster academic resiliency and growth. Each unit includes an introduction, a materials task list to prepare the instructor and the classroom, procedures for conducting the lessons, enrichment/extension activities, and instructor follow-up and evaluation.
View a Lesson Sample from the Success Highways Teacher’s Guide

Classroom Posters
These modern, eye-catching classroom resiliency posters provide a visual cue for Success Highways students. Many Success Highways classrooms are decorated with resiliency posters to remind students of the relationship between resiliency and academic success.

Billboard (Reusable, Erasable White Boards)
Success Highways classroom activities include communication and sharing through a variety of experiences. In some lessons, students write a response on a white board and hold up the board so the teacher can easily view the class responses without singling out a particular student.

Student Materials

Each student receives a My Success folder which includes:

My Success Roadmap
Each 32-page journal contains specific activities for each lesson presented in Success Highways. The highly engaging exercises allow students to identify personal challenges, establish a plan for addressing those challenges, and chart a course toward academic success.
View a Sample of My Success Roadmap by Success Highways

Revving Up Report
Each student receives individualized resiliency results from the Revving Up assessment so that they may analyze and reflect on personal resiliency skills and challenges. This is a key aspect to the Success Highways pedagogy.

Professional Development
The Success Highway’s professional development solutions are customized to meet the needs of each unique educational partner. Both webinar and on-site training are available to best accommodate the varying needs of each school or district.

A typical Success Highways implementation begins with the Success Highways Initial Implementation Training, and may be followed by additional sessions on a variety of topics.

Success Highways Initial Implementation Training
This half-day session led by a trained facilitator will provide school staff with a thorough introduction of the Success Highways resiliency assessment and curriculum. It is designed to give participants an in-depth examination of the six resiliency skills and teaching methods that empower students to become more intrinsically motivated. This model provides the most effective implementation.



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