School, Organization, and Agency Leaders

Here’s 2 Life Foundation is a federally designated 501c(3), nonprofit organization that offers integrated approaches to education for the iGeneration. We use music and media as content and context for culturally relevant, highly engaging teaching & learning, enrichment programming, and therapy.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. Your responses are confidential and will only be used by our team. We will use this information to better understand your needs, preferences, and priorities. We help schools, organizations, and agencies measurably improve outcomes at the individual, group, and organizational levels.

Please visit: www.heres2life.org to learn more.

Our pathways to wealth and wellness are culturally relevant and engaging. They include: instruction, programming, therapy, support services, and access to resources.

This form should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.

Please select the setting(s) that best describe(s) where you currently offer educational, enrichment, or therapeutic services, or plan to offer services.*

Which of these categories best describes your current role in the organization?*

Please select the source(s) from which your school district receives funding. You may select more than one funding source, if appropriate.*

1. Federal2. State or D.C.3. City/Municipality4. Private

What time of day or year would you prefer to offer expanded services? If all apply, select all. If one is preferred to the other, please rank from one to three. One [1] is for your preferred option. Three [3] is least preferred option.*

1. During traditional school day2. After school or night school4. None of the above3. Summer

Does your school, school district, organization, or agency need support services, such as classroom interventions or alternative programming?*

YesNo

Which of the following types of services listed below would you rank as most appealing? One [1] is the service option that is most appealing; five [5] is the service option that least appeals to you, at this time.*

From the list below, which of the following types of services ranks as the most appealing to you for staff development? One [1] is the option that appeals to you most; five [5] is the option that least appeals to you, among those presented.*

Which of the following student/youth-focused services listed below would you rank as most appealing. One [1] is the option that appeals to you most; six [6] is the option that least appeals to you, among those present.*

Please rank from among these competencies which one you would say is your most pressing or highest priority. One [1] is your most pressing/highest priority. Five [5] is your least pressing/lowest priority, at this time.*

Congratulations! You’re more than halfway finished.

Let’s turn our attention to a few of the outcomes we target. This is where the rubber meets the road. Our outcomes include pathways to positive shifts in: knowledge, skills, abilities, choices, behaviors, and behavioral intentions.

Our training services are: model teaching, co-teaching, facilitation, and co-facilitation. We also offer supervision and implementation monitoring for those who wish to implement one of our programs with fidelity as an intervention or as therapy.

We focus on improving executive functioning and building five key competencies in ways that are culturally familiar, relevant, and responsive, in times like these. The competencies we address are: behavioral, cognitive, emotional, moral, and social. These are all competencies associated with optimal youth development, and when introduced early, result in positive vs. adverse childhood experiences.

Which of these categories of service options would you say captures your greatest need? One [1] is for your most pressing priority; three [3] is for your least pressing/lowest priority.*

Which of the following best describes your highest [most pressing] priority at this time? One [1] is for your highest priority. Six [6] is your least pressing priority.*

The following are behavioral focused outcomes. Which best describes your most pressing [highest] priority at this time? One [1] is your highest priority outcome. Six [6] the outcome that is your least pressing priority, at this tim.*

If you could add additional goals, which best describes your most pressing priority at this time? One [1] is your most pressing [highest] priority. Four [4] is you least pressing priority, at this time.*

Which audiences best describe the population you wish to offer expanded services? One [1] is the population that is currently your highest priority. Five [5] is for the population that is currently your least pressing priority*

Let’s turn our attention to something new, but tried and proven. Let talk about an integrated, evidence-based approach to teaching, learning, enrichment, and therapy. This new approach connects popular music and social media to new ways to address standards of learning in five content areas. Problem solving, value-driven decision making, stress reduction, and communication are all at the core of this new approach.

Most people who are introduced to the MusicsEnergy: Life Literacy Curriculum come away “seeing” things differently. We believe this is because when asked “doUCwhatIC” and when invited to tag and talk about what you see, it’s hard to mistake what you see as being intentional and programmed and available on demand. Young people, and adolescents in particular, are clearly embedded in a broader culture that places some at higher risk for negative outcomes compared to others.

Given this reality, MusicsEnergy leverages the broad appeal of popular music and media for pro-social teaching, learning, enrichment, and therapy. Imagine if we used music to help young people - and those who support them in formal and informal settings - become more self and socially aware, as well as more competent academically, behaviorally, emotionally, morally, and socially.

Imagine, if we teach young people the skills to identify and solve personal and social problem by using their knowledge of history to deconstruct contemporary manifestations of dis-ease. What if we use this foundation to help set goals, make informed decisions, and choose from among the options, the best ones.

And what if more people learned healthy coping skills, self-regulation, and how to recognize triggers? How might examining communication norms over time, help us improve the way we communicate today with each other, in times like these?

Which age group best describes the population you currently serve or wish to serve One [1] is for the population you wish to target as your highest priority. You may continue to rank up to five, as warranted.*

Which age group best describes the population that you consider as your most pressing priority? One [1] is the population you wish to prioritize above all others. Five [5] is the population that you prioritize as lower than the others, at this time.*

MusicsEnergy: Life Literacy Curriculum™ [ME: LLC] consists of LIFE courses or pathways to wealth and wellness. A description of three follows: RDA is health/education focused; MIM is academic/cognitive focused; SWY is creative/social entrepreneurship focused. Based on these brief descriptions, please rank them. One [1] is the option appeals to you most. Three [3] is is the options that appeals to you the least, if you had to choose.*

Which offering do you think would appeal the most to the students/youth you serve? One [1] is the option that would appeal the most to students/youth. Three [3] is the option that you think would appeal the least to students and youth.*

If improving grades is the goal, which subject would you rank as the highest priority in your school [or school district] on a scale of 1 to 6, with one [1] being the highest priority and six [6] being the least priority, at this time? *

If improving student/youth engagement is the goal, which subject would you rank as the highest priority in your school [or school district] right now, on a scale of 1-6, with one [1] being the highest priority and six [6] being the least priority, at this time? *

Professional Development is how we introduce evidence-based approaches to engaged teaching, learning, enrichment, and therapy. If you are interested in learning more about the intervention or one of our programming options, we will offer training, supervision, ongoing technical assistance, or monitoring in how to make the best use of our products and methodology.

MusicsEnergy has been evaluated and peer reviewed as an intervention that engages young people using music and media as content and context to build five key competencies and promote critical thinking about health and community wellness.

By fostering curiosity, grit, and perseverance, we teach the benefits of a strong resolve to succeed and to overcome obstacles.

We offer counseling & support services in the form of youth friendly, group therapy to address the following four broad categories. Please select the topic(s) that apply to the young people you serve. If all apply, select all.*

If reducing the number of behavioral referrals to include discipline, crime, violence, or similar offenses, is your priority, please choose your most pressing priority. *

Thank you for taking the time to complete this form. We will follow-up with a proposal based what was shared. This proposal will include next steps regarding how we might work together to improve youth and learner-centered outcomes and the overall climate and culture in the building.

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