Who is Top 20 for? (from the Top 20 Training website)

Students:

Top 20 Training is for students of all ages and grade levels. The concepts help any student looking for better relationships and experiences in the classroom, with friends and at home. The concepts can help with such challenges as:

• Finding relevancy in classes that don’t seem appealing
• Dealing with conflict with a teacher or a classmate
• Procrastination and boredom
• Staying focused
• Building trust
• Dealing with negativity

Parents:

Top 20 Training offers a simple language that helps people discover critical thinking, learning and communicating skills. Whether it is through Top 20 books or training sessions, learning the concepts together provides parents and students greater benefits at a faster rate. When everyone in the family knows this language, the skills become easier to practice and implement into daily life. (SECRET: Parents sometimes benefit more from Top 20 Training than students and observe many positive changes in their own personal and professional lives.)
Top 20 Training helps parents:

• Find ways to enhance and become a part of their child’s education
• Obtain a shared working vocabulary of the content to help foster an environment where the concepts can be learned together
• Communicate more effectively and improve their relationship with their children
• Develop positive mental habits and reduce negative mental habits in their children.
• Grow personally and be exposed to emotional intelligence.

A Top 20 school is intentionally implementing Top 20 principles and practices in order to fulfill the overall mission: to create a safe and healthy culture for all members of the school community and develop their potential to think, learn and communicate more effectively. This results in a positive difference in the lives, relationships and experiences of all involved. Members of the school enjoy and celebrate growth towards this mission’s fulfillment and work consistently to correct thoughts, beliefs and practices that are roadblocks to its achievement.

This program addresses three major challenges in American schools:

• How can we become more effective parents and educators in the 21st century?
• How can we create an effective and healthy school culture?
• How can we keep students engaged in learning?

Increase in:
Awareness of self and others
A more positive school culture
Responsibility and other Star Qualities
Student engagement in learning
Effective conflict resolution
Learning from mistakes and failure
Celebrating confusion

Decrease in:
Roadblocks to learning
Boredom, procrastination, self-doubt
Fear of other peoples’ opinions
Negativity: Thought circles and social tornadoes
Dishonoring the absent
Avoiding responding to problems
Students feeling disconnected