After using the program for about 2 years, we have seen some amazing results. Our students are happier and parents are more settled... I have seen a major decrease in the number of incidents with students, specifically the number of students I have to discipline. Behavior problems are now really rare. We attribute the change to what WiseSkills has done. --Sister Grace Marie, Sacred Heart Elementary School, Youngstown, PA
Since using WiseSkills, we have seen a decrease in discipline referrals and behavior problems. --Genia Antoine, Winn Elementary School, Auston, TX
With the WiseSkills program, there has been a dramatic change in how students treat each other and teachers. Students remember and use the character words. --Maureen Stuempfig, Citrus Elementary School, Chico, CA
WiseSkills was implemented in an advisor/advisee class and helped to build a positive school climate. --Vermelle Greene, Vice-Principal, Buck Lodge Middle School (WiseSkills trainer) WiseSkills has assisted in cutting down our discipline problems. --Dorothy Sampson, Atkinson Elementary School, Griffin, GA
School Counselors
WiseSkills was a great starting point to introduce character education into our school and as a starting program that works great with other programs... Our school uses the same terminology and we are able to have a common language. Our discipline was cut in half from 397 referrals 5 years ago to 200 this last year. --Judy Stansbury, Ness Elementary School, Spokane, WA
WiseSkills helped students resolve conflicts more positively. --Laurie Lansour, Field Elementary School, Pasadena, CA
Real life stories have always been used through history to impart wisdom and knowledge in an engaging way... Great product--will use it often. Thanks. --High School Guidance Counselor
Teachers
The beauty of WiseSkills is that it is an interdisciplinary approach to character education. --Blair Browning, 4th grade teacher
The WiseSkills program has helped my class and I to become more aware of how we treat one another. The quotes teach much needed values to the students. Famous people speaking about courage, friendship, honesty, and cooperation allows the children to have heroes! We learn the history of these people and how they have triumphed in small or big ways over their problems. We wrote stories, poems, comics using the quotes. --Maria Koutras, 5th grade teacher
Extremely teacher friendly! Easy to integrate with other subject areas. --Tom Buffet, 6th grade teacher
The service projects were instrumental in helping students learn to appreciate nature and not destroy their own environment. Because we chose park planting as a service project, we incorporated plants and flowers as part of our literature, science, and art assignments. --LaVonda Reed, 2nd grade teacher
I am currently using WiseSkills with our adult offenders... It is the best character education tool have discovered. Thanks so much!! --Cheyenne Emory, Community Alternatives to Prison Program, Knox County Sheriff’s Dept., TN
The whole WiseSkills Training was wonderful and the presenter kept it so fun and interesting. --Teacher
Parents
At first I was somewhat skeptical about the WiseSkills program’s effectiveness, but I found that it generated a lot of in-depth conversation, not only with my son, but around the dinner table with the whole family. --Parent
The written activities were the most valuable because my son became aware of the significance of family relationships and his family’s history. Overall excellent! --Parent
Students
WiseSkills helped me a lot because I was another boy with a bad attitude--now I am
not bad. I learned not to get in gangs. I learned that we have to
help other people. WiseSkills was a great thing to do. --6th grade student
The quotations taught me how to use my actions to have a good life. The WiseSkills program was the best program we had this year. --5th grade student
I
like to say the character quotes in front of the school. And I like to
find out what they mean. A quote that helped me was to treat a person
the way you want to be treated. --3rd grade Student
Community
Sixth grade students sponsored several wheelchair walks for our elderly residents. They also participated in intergenerational craft projects... Students got to experience an elderly health care center firsthand... They also found that they could make a meaningful contribution to our elderly population and form friendships... The WiseSkills program is a wonderful community-based concept. --Retirement Home Activities Director
Students recited poetry to...day laborers, made sack lunches, and gave them to the workers... The service project allowed students to appreciate all people no matter who they are, where they come from, what they do. WiseSkills instills in them those qualities and characteristics that will enable them to grow up and be responsible and caring adults... I hope educators and parents will see the need and the benefits of this program. --Community Volunteer
