The essential curriculum for educators, counselors, youth program leaders and others who work with girls… what does it include?
- Essential Curriculum: Stand Up! Speak Out!® Empowering Skills for Girls’ Friendships book
- Sixteen 30-minute lesson plans ready to be utilized in a classroom, after-school program, or youth group as needed
- Skits for all genders, to be used for role-playing and practicing skills
- Evaluation tools to help assess skill development and progress
Do you work with girls in or after school? Are you looking for group activities and skills to help girls develop strong friendships and emotional well-being? Do you want to empower girls to be bold bystanders who speak up and make a difference? Are you interested in encouraging girls in leadership? Would you like to increase social and emotional learning in your classroom or program? Stand Up! Speak Out!® can help!
We at the Institute for Girls’ Development recognize that you are on the front lines with girls and their families every day. Our role is a companion one – helping you help girls gain confidence, skills and practice for building relational resilience, solving relational conflicts, and being a leader who can stand up and speak out. As an industry leader in empowering girls via social, emotional, and cultural awareness and skills, we are excited to share this curriculum with you.
Stand Up! Speak Out!® introduces you to important research on girls’ development, hardiness, and relational resilience. It walks you through six modules of skills and activities developed over 20 years in our work with girls. We’ve included many of the activities that have been most popular with girls, as well as most effective at supporting their empowerment. We’ve also included additional teaching tips and resources for group and classroom leaders. The included posters (8.5 “×11”) are useful as teaching tools and classroom reminders.
Modules for Stand Up! Speak Out!®
Seeing the Big Picture and Building Connection
Taking Care of the Emotional World: Skills for Self-Care and Calming
“They’re Being Mean!” Skills to Use When Girls Get Targeted
“Oops! Ouch!” Alternative Skills to Being Mean
“Not in the Middle!” Skills for Spoon-ish Situations
Influence for Good! Skills for the Bold Bystander
More Tips for Leaders and Teachers
Resources for Further Learning
Overview of the Sixteen Lesson Plans:
Lesson 1: Introduction to Stand Up! Speak Out! ®
Lesson 2: Being a Good Friend – My Friendship Superpowers
Lesson 3: Role Models
Lesson 4: Identity
Lesson 5: Social Media
Lesson 6: Identifying Big Feelings
Lesson 7: Self Care for Big Feelings
Lesson 8: Empathy and Compassion
Lesson 9: Effective Communication When Conflicts Arise – Brave Talk
Lesson 10: How to Respond to Assertiveness
Lesson 11: When Conflicts Arise: Understanding the Roles
Lesson 12: Stand Up Skills for Targets
Lesson 13: Stand Up Skills for When You’re Feeling Frustrated
Lesson 14: Stand Up Skills for Bold Bystanders
Lesson 15: Stand Up Skills for When Your in the Middle
Lesson 16: Stand Up! Speak Out!® Reflections & Celebration!
Supplemental Activities
Friendship Skills Posters
Note from Dr. Johnson, author of Stand Up! Speak Out!®: As a psychologist and founder of the Institute for Girls’ Development as well as a former classroom teacher, I have had the privilege of working with girls and learning from them for over 30 years. The wisdom gained from listening, following the cutting edge research on girls and social and emotional learning, engaging in dialogue and teaching skills have all come together in our curriculum: Stand Up! Speak Out!® Empowering Skills for Girls’ Friendships!
We also offer the Stand Up! Speak Out!® Curriculum Training for educators, school counselors, program leaders, and others who work with girls ages 8 to 13. Reach to to PHobey@IFGD.care for more information on this training.
