Urban Motivational Youth Curriculum - Online Offer for Educators

Aug. 29, 2012 - PRLog -- According to Stanford University researcher William Damon, “only about one in five young people in the 12-22-year age range express a clear vision of where they want to go, what they want to accomplish in life, and why.” If a young person has no sense of direction, there is a very high percentage they are not maximizing one of the greatest gold mines that is right before their eyes. Education. The pathway for opportunity. Its less than 50-50 chance for completion of high school for students from urban areas.
How can we combat the 1 to 5 ratio of a young person not being able to express a clear vision of where they want to go? Help students find purpose. That is where the urban  youth motivation curriculum RESH 180 has been designed to set-in-motion the notion of purpose thinking.   RESH is an acronym for “Raising Expectations, Standards, and Honor.”  180 refers to young people making a 180 degree turn in their lives.  RESH 180 explores a young person’s attitudes, mindset, and beliefs – using visual, auditory, and sensory stimuli that embrace the way young people learn today.  By challenging their mind-set, RESH 180 initiates a self-directed inward examination that each young person uses to become aware of his or her direction in life, and progress toward purpose in life. RESH 180 teaches students to examine themselves inwardly, to see whether or not they have moved or grown in a direction that will lead to a purposeful, meaningful life. With this newfound awareness, the young people are then taught to examine the inputs, influences and effects that have brought them to the life situations they are in today.  Next, they are taught a new way to interpret the factors that influence their lives. The analogy of a “lens” is used to demonstrate how to “make their eyes work.”  Finally, RESH 180 teaches young people to be accountable for their actions, and also gives them life skills to practice what they have learned.  Every page of the RESH 180 curriculum has been designed to collect data and offer genuine and meaningful perspective of meeting student needs and being relevant to their current status. Purpose needs to be taught to every young person in our schools. Once purpose is activated the student will "see" reading, math, and writing are subjects beyond the classroom.

The creator of RESH 180 Dr Adam Ybarra has created a Turn-Key program that includes an Instructor's DVD that contains 7-teaching videos, podcast, and animation and a  Instructor's Manual offering step-by-step instructions, checklists and teaching aids. There is also a full color publication student workbook.  

Log on to  http://www.resh.org  and click on Special Offer for Educators button for more details.

ABOUT DR. ADAM T. YBARRA
Dr. Ybarra knows what it's like to have no hope or motivation. Growing up in San Jose, California, Ybarra found himself a child of divorce and welfare, and turned to using and selling drugs to survive, had a profound 180 experience that radically changed his life resulting in impacting over 350,000 young people across America and Africa and Life-Coached over 1200 professional athletes & coaches.  

Dr. Ybarra serves as a member of the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Prevention Gang Task Force, National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention and Youth Advisor to the Republic of Burundii.

For more information log on to  http://www.adamybarra.com