Capturing Kids' Hearts
Overview
Focus
Specific Skills
- Expected behaviors
- Increase positive child behavior
- Building teacher and parent skills
- Social skills
- Improve school climate
Program Length
Two consecutive days of training for faculty, staff, and administrators where they learn and practice skills they will use and model in their classrooms, schools, and districts. Leadworthy Character Lessons span throughout the school year.
Program Description
Through experiential training, expert coaching, a character-based curriculum for students, and personalized support, Capturing Kids' Hearts® equips professionals in K-12 education to implement transformational processes focused on social-emotional wellbeing, relationship-driven campus culture, and student connectedness. Capturing Kids Hearts shows teachers how to create high-achieving centers of learning by strengthening students’ connectedness to others through enhancing healthy bonds with their teachers and establishing collaborative agreements of acceptable behavior.
Visit Program WebsiteCost
Costs vary, contact the program at 1-800-316-4311 to request a quote for your school; Trainings for the program range from $550-895
More Pricing DetailsDemographics & Delivery
Intended Population
- Any
Grade
- Elementary School
- Middle School
- High School
Intended Group Size
- Any
ELL/DLL
- Unspecified
Multisensory Applications
- Yes
Delivery Method
- Hybrid / blended delivery
Scripted
- Instructor Scripted
Program Specifics
Comprehensive or Skill Specific
- Comprehensive
Placement Tests
- No
Accelerated Learning
- No
Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery
- No
Error Correction Built In
- No
Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher
- Unspecified
Research & Evaluation
Research Summary
Three peer-reviewed research studies were found that had positive effects on student attendance, academic success, prosocial behaviors, and office referrals.
Study Citations
Castro, V. Johnson, M. B., & Sith, R. (2008). Self-reported resilient behaviors of seventh an eighth grade students enrolled in an emotional intelligence based program. Journal of School Counseling, 6(27).
Holtzapple, C. K., Griswold, J. S., Cirillo, K., Rosenbroock, J., Nouza, N., & Berry, C. (2011). Implementation of a school-wide adolescent character education and prevention program evaluating the relationships between principal support, faculty implementation, and student outcomes. Journal of Research in Character Education , 9(1), 71-90.
Sherwood, R. (2003). It all began with a handshake, The Effective Schools Project Journal, 9, 6-11.
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Promising practice
