Parenting Programs

60- and 90-Minute Presentations
Introduces parenting priorities and explains how parents can build family strength around principles and personal vision. Workshops may be scheduled after this presentation. Topics include:

Why is character development important?
How can family and school support each other?
What do our children really want from us?

Parent and Teacher Workshops
This three- to four-hour interactive workshop for parents or teachers outlines in detail the 10 Priorities. Using humor and anecdotes to teach practical skills for character-based education and parenting, this program gives participants an understanding of how to engage and communicate effectively with parents and students. Topics include:

Truth over Harmony
How to set high expectations and let go of the outcomes
Allowing obstacles to become opportunities
Establishing a character culture in your home and school

Teacher Training
The Biggest Job^® will provide tools to identify and address negative attitudes, instruction on how to create a character culture in the classroom, and how to work effectively with parents.

Program outcomes for student, parent, and teacher

Common Language – By creating a common language among student, parent, and teacher, discussions will have a framework that connects the home to the school environment.
Truth Over Harmony – Through activities, seminars, and retreats, students, parents and teachers will strengthen the shared value of honesty and honest communication. Each person will be given tools to speak more honestly and to identify what may block each person’s honesty.
Create A Character Culture – Families will learn and execute useful action steps to foster a character culture in their home. Faculty will learn to set high expectations for all students and to value positive learning attitudes.
Structure and Support – Learning how to ask for and accept help is crucial. Students, parents, and teachers will learn to ask peers for help and accept challenge and support.
Inspiration – Parents and teachers must set an example of becoming all they can be. If we want students to become people of character, we must be developing our own character, and growing as people. Students will recognize the example of the adults in their lives and from that be able to measure their own ability to inspire others.

Additional Opportunities

Parent Coach: offers individualized mentoring.
Parent Meetings: deepen your understanding of the 10 Priorities.
Parent Training Weekends: intensive training of parenting skills and family solutions.
Know Yourself, Be Yourself: helps students face tough issues, such as courage, bullying, and peer pressure.
Teacher Training: provides tools to identify and address negative attitudes, instruction on how to create a character culture in the classroom, and how to work effectively with parents.

Consulting Program
The Biggest Job will work with a school or community to create programs that enhance the mission of individual schools. The goal is to empower schools and communities to strengthen their goals by connecting students and parents together in a character curriculum.