First Step

This 19 minute video is designed for high schools who would like to provide some fundamental Soft Skills training during their Advisement period or in periods less than 50 minutes in duration. The video is led by a HS student and concludes with a cool magic trick for the students.

It’s a great way to get students exposed to fundamental Soft Skills and then follow it up with our 8 module Next Step Soft Skills video program to gain a deeper insight to the Soft Skills needed to be productive in school, life and workplace.

Video Topics

– Meet and Greet
– Eye Contact
– Listening
– Punctuality
– Decision Making
– Personal Responsibility and Accountability
– Respect
– Work Ethic
– Showing Initiative
– Being Coachable

What I Wish I'd Known About High School

This short video provides insights from senior high school students about what they wish that had known prior to or just starting high school. Interviews were conducted with approximately 100 high school seniors to share what they learned through their high school experiences. The presenters are actual high school students, and the video concludes with a short magic trick for the student’s entertainment.

Decision Making Pledge

This short video is designed for 9th grade students to help them understand the importance of decision-making during their high school years. The message emphases that “we all make decisions and ultimately our decisions make us.”

Students are involved in an exercise helping them to understand all the types of decisions ahead of them and their impact on their lives. They also do an exercise to show them how even “good people” can still make bad decisions.

The students are then provided a Decision-Making Model they can follow when a decision arises. The class concludes with providing the students with a Personal Student Decision-Making Pledge Card to sign that summarizes the key points of the class.

Endorsed by the Georgia Dept of Education

The Next Step program is part of the larger IDEALS Foundation for high school students. Due to its success and popularity, the Georgia Dept. of Education requested IDEALS to develop a proprietary soft skills program for high school students.

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"What I Wish I Had Known About High School"