Newman Stecher International offers a comprehensive menu of Training Programs and Staff Development workshops. For further information about any of our listings or for a cost proposal, contact us directly. For information specific to the Masonic Model Student Assistance Program contact the National Masonic Foundation for Children directly at (800) 356-2766.

Masonic Model Student Assistance (3 days) - This program works with school based teams comprised of administration, guidance, nurse, regular education and special education front line staff, and other key adults within a school to identify, refer, and intervene with at-risk children. The training combines essential content with a time proven process currently being used in 26 states and portions of Canada.

Masonic Model Student Assistance Booster Training (1 day) - Here we work with previously trained Student Assistance Teams to address program strengths and concerns. Time is also spent looking at the critical issue of team wellness. This training is specifically for teams with one year or less of experience implementing a comprehensive student assistance program.

Building A Classroom Community: Respect, Responsibility, Relationships (2 days) - Educators K-12 are invited to participate in this highly experiential classroom community building course. Together we will work through a developmental program designed to identify, model and practice strategies for team, group and community building.

Student Assistance Team Wellness (2 days) - The longevity of any student assistance team is directly tied into how well the members take care of themselves and each other. During this training we will look at team builders and team killers and experientially develop a working model for self care.

Safe Schools: Conflict Management, Anger Control, Violence and Abuse Prevention (1 day) - Prevention and intervention strategies designed to raise awareness and provide concrete steps to address the critical issues confronting today's schools are presented and discussed. We examine the root causes of conflict, anger and violence and develop specific tools to handle each in an effective manner.

Group Facilitators Training (2 or 3 days) - Participants are taught the most effective techniques for running school based student support groups. We also examine carefully the distinction between a support group and a therapy group and how to avoid the latter. This training is an advanced training tied into an existing student assistance program.

Administrative Academy ( ½ or Full Day) - Administrators whose schools are implementing a comprehensive student assistance program are brought together to discuss specific strategies for supporting their team. Legal issues surrounding student assistance are also covered in great detail.

Classroom Management (1 day) - Classroom teachers today face a different student population than they did years ago. In this workshop we examine the skills necessary to deal effectively with today's student. Topics include: setting effective limits and boundaries, building a classroom community.

Character Education (1 day) - Teachers will learn specific, practical techniques to improve students' skills. Participants will be able to help their students learn and study more effectively, and experience higher rates of academic and social success.

Diversity and Multicultural Awareness (1 day) - This workshop is designed to address our behaviors related to this potentially volatile topic. The basic goals for this workshop are: learning social responsibility through service to others, clarifying our future vision by learning from the past and creating a community of caring.

Stress and Time Management (1 day) - Participants will examine their current attitudes and perceptions of stress. We will explore both positive and negative responses to stress. We will practice twenty proven strategies for managing time and reducing negative stress.

Multiple Intelligences: Real Genius at Play (1 day) - This workshop is designed to have participants experience the multiple intelligences researched by Gardner, Armstrong, and Buzan. Particular emphasis will be placed on activities, experiential learning, and strategies for developing logic, linguistics, music, spatial, kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

Passages: A Student Leadership Program (1-3 days) - This program focuses on the essential life skills in adolescents as they experience the necessary crisis of separating from childhood and moving through adolescence into adulthood. Passages draws on history, past and present cultures and universal elements of tradition and ritual to provide adolescents with connections and roots for developing healthy rites of passage in their lives.

Raising Drug Free Kids (3 days) - This "Train-the-Trainer" model empowers communities to set up parent educators to reach into every area of the community and set up parent education programs. There are three separate and distinct programs each emphasizing a different aspect of effective parenting. All materials needed to teach the program are provided.

Note: Many of our workshops can be customized to fit into a school's schedule and time constraints. Please contact us for further details.