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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BECOME A MISS KENDRA SCHOOL

We are glad that you want to develop a whole-school environment that welcomes open conversation about stress. Our team will guide your teachers and support staff through training, ongoing support and classroom materials to become a Miss Kendra School.

We’ll equip you with grade-level curriculum that include lesson plans for the whole school year. The Program is designed to be delivered in weekly sessions of 30 minutes throughout the whole school year. 

Our team will provide you with everything you need to become a Miss Kendra School and implement the complete program with Miss Kendra’s Legend, Miss Kendra’s List, Letters to Miss Kendra, and Red Bead Club activities in the classrooms. The program includes:

  • Initial two-day training session for teachers, social support staff and administrative staff conducted on-site by the Miss Kendra Program team.
  • Ongoing phone coaching/supervision of your school personnel by experienced Miss Kendra trainers throughout the year, plus at least one follow-up visit by Miss Kendra faculty.
  • Official Miss Kendra materials: Worry boards, mailboxes, stationery, red beads, training manuals, posters, stamps.

WHY MISS KENDRA?

tHE BIGGEST CHANGE

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TEACHERS’ FAVORITE PARTS

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HOW HAVE STUDENTS REACTED?

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AGE APPROPRiATE CURRICULUM

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MISS KENDRA FOR ALL GRADES
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K-1st Grade:

Wrapped in Miss Kendra Magic, students in grades K-1 spend time learning the fundamentals of Miss Kendra: norms of child safety, naming their feelings, and how to tell an everyday worry from a Miss Kendra worry. Miss Kendra Time is a time for these young learners to share the feelings in their hearts and the worries on their mind, no matter how big or small.
2-3rd grade

2nd - 3rd Grade:

2nd and 3rd grade Miss Kendra curriculum takes an energetic and playful approach to helping students apply Miss Kendra's concepts of child safety. Students also practice building healthy relationships with peers, and are encouraged to be curious about how others might think and feel. By using their imaginations, artistic abilities, and dramatic playfulness to connect with each other, 2nd and 3rd graders will become part of a courageous and vibrant Miss Kendra classroom community!
4th-5th grade

4th - 5th Grade:

Let’s go there! The Miss Kendra curriculum for 4th and 5th grade explores core social and emotional concepts at a deeper level to engage older students’ newly developed abilities to articulate their experiences, ask insightful questions, and show empathy towards others. The lessons encourage students to grapple with complex life challenges, mirroring students increased sense of responsibility and social awareness.
6th-8th grade

6th - 8th Grade:

Ready to level up? The Miss Kendra middle school curriculum diverges from the imaginative world of Miss Kendra for younger students, and encourages students to be honest about the things that are getting in their way at school. Students learn how to draw connections between their lived experiences and difficulties they may be having, whether social, emotional, or academic, and skills to be able to disentangle trauma triggers to better manage distress at school.
9th-12th grade

9th - 12 Grade:

Let's talk about the truth. The Miss Kendra high school curriculum directly addresses topics relevant to students' everyday lives, such as identity development, relational stress, and social justice. Each lesson encourages students to think critically and empathically about different perspectives through experiential learning and discussion. The curriculum is designed to be tailored to suit the needs of each unique school community, and lessons can be implemented non-sequentially in order to attend to emergent issues.

THE CURRICULUM

The Miss Kendra curriculum is all grade appropriate. Each Miss Kendra lesson is designed to be fun and engaging, while simultaneously making difficult topics accessible to students. It is expected that some anxiety will arise from eliciting open conversations about adversity, and thus there are structures throughout the curriculum to facilitate both expression and containment of this emotionality.

The curriculum has 38 lesson plans designed to be delivered in 38 weekly sessions of 30 minutes throughout the whole school year. The lesson plans follow a particular format designed to elicit the opinions, feelings, and thoughts of the students as well as their own personal experiences regarding sensitive topics.

The main action of the teacher in guiding a Miss Kendra Program lesson is to:

1) Evoke the issue – usually through Miss Kendra’s List,

2) Ask the students to communicate their feelings and thoughts about it through games and exercises, and then

3) Listen to their answers and encourage them to continue to communicate about these issues.

There are nine modules in the Miss Kendra curriculum, one for each month of the academic year. An initial, six-week long Foundational module is intended to introduce the primary concepts of the program to students, and to make sure, in age appropriate language, that students understand the aim and methods of the program.

TEACHER, PRINCIPAL & PARENT TESTIMONIALS

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Our students here have been using their voices to show us that they don't like something. They all show us that they are afraid and they're showing us things that we never expected would come out here, things that will keep them safe and protected.
Social-Emotional Learning Specialist, Escambia County, FL
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I have noticed a significant drop in behavior referrals, suspensions, and overall disciplinary problems. The students feel a sense of relief when they get the opportunity to “play” with the therapist and the teacher notices a sense of calmness when students return to the classroom.
Principal, Strong Elementary School
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Giving them that red bead—all of the students that I gave it to just thanked me and they asked me to put it on or I saw them wearing it later. It really did make a big impact and I realized that even though I had fear about being a holder of the students’ stories and things, that they were grateful for it and accepting of the read bead as the symbol that they are a strong person and that I know that they're a strong person.
Miss Kendra Teacher, Menlo Park Academy, Minneapolis, MN

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