Abstract
“Yet” is a school-based youth development program intended to introduce elementarygrade students to concepts of growth mindset, self-leadership, resilience and self-talk to promote healthy coping strategies to persist in tasks toward more positive educational outcomes. Drawing from psychology, education, and management literature focusing on self-leadership, the “Yet” program encourages interaction and internalization of concepts such as “growing the brain,” and “stinkin’ thinking,” while modeling how to reframe set-backs to things students have not mastered…”yet,” and practicing adaptive self-talk to promote coping and persistence. This unique program holds promise because it is approximately 30 minutes long, occurs within the context of a regular school day, and can be implemented with a high measure of fidelity because it is script-based. The success of the program may be augmented by principal and teacher support along with online videos.
Highlights
Youth development programs can come in a host of shapes and sizes and address a variety of needs
Successful programs have ranged from developing peer leadership skills in middle and high school students (Apsler, Puerini Del Sesto, Formica, & Mulligan, 2011), to programs directed at the needs of immigrant and refugee children (Hall, Porch, Grossman, & Smashnaya, 2015), to growing gardens (Sagers, Greenhalgh, Christensen, & Sherwood, 2011), to schoolbased programs, such as a “HERstory which promotes pro-social peer engagement and develops social skills in girls (MacFarlane, Chauveron, & Thompkins, 2013)
In this article we present a one-time program we believe is compelling given its interdisciplinary grounding, accessibility to students of highly varied cognitive and socioeconomic levels, and overall ease of implementation -- a school-based program developed for elementary grade students called “Yet.”
Summary
Abstract: “Yet” is a school-based youth development program intended to introduce elementary grade students to concepts of growth mindset, self-leadership, resilience and self-talk to promote healthy coping strategies to persist in tasks toward more positive educational outcomes. Drawing from psychology, education, and management literature focusing on self-leadership, the “Yet” program encourages interaction and internalization of concepts such as “growing the brain,” and “stinkin’ thinking,” while modeling how to reframe set-backs to things students have not mastered...”yet,” and practicing adaptive self-talk to promote coping and persistence. This unique program holds promise because it is approximately 30 minutes long, occurs within the context of a regular school day, and can be implemented with a high measure of fidelity because it is script-based. The success of the program may be augmented by principal and teacher support along with online videos
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