How Campus Messaging Improved Culture
I have often mentioned how visiting over 1,000 schools has helped me to develop our Student Ownership M.A.P., which is a time-tested theory that school culture can be easily built through your message, your activities, and your people. So I want to take a few moments...
$9,000 Give-A-Way to the CADA Community
The first time I attended CADA was about 10 years ago. The great Turbo Garcia asked me to come speak in a breakout session. I'd never been to CADA before, but boy did it leave an imprint on my soul. It was an amazing conference with the best educators and ideas in...
How to Use Slogans to Build School Culture
Every school has a slogan. I assume your school has one as well, but is it working? In my book, Building School Culture From the Inside Out, I highlight the importance of a school slogan and discuss how just a few simple words can drive school culture and create...
Experience TEEN TRUTH this Semester
In 2017 we will be visiting schools and communities across America, offering several opportunities for you to attend TEEN TRUTH and RISING UP events. While most of our trainings are closed events, the programs listed below are open to the public. They’ve been...
Parenting & Co-Parenting Event
Learn Parenting & Co-Parenting Strategies that Work In a complex world filled with challenges and increasing isolation, what would it look like for you to have tools to connect with and love your teen? Join us for the Austin film premiere of TEEN TRUTH: Parents...
A Year of Joy
The New Year offers all of us a fresh beginning. We’ve made the pledges to lose weight, call so-and-so more often, finally clean the garage, or any other series of goals, but I’ve found over the years that these resolutions often fade into the busy landscape of our...
30% Off Special Offer
We know the speakers you invite to your campus need to connect with your students, and over the past 10 years, we’ve employed many youth speakers who inspire positive change in students lives. However, no speaker has ever done as well as Jared Scott. His TEEN TRUTH:...
TEEN TRUTH Gives Back
It’s important for all of us to give thanks as we enter the holiday season. We have a lot to be thankful for here at TEEN TRUTH, as we’ve continued to extend our reach to students across North America. We owe this success to your support. So in an effort to...
TEEN TRUTH Launches on Amazon Prime
We’ve always pushed to give students a voice, and we’re constantly seeking out new outlets for our award-winning film series. This fall we were able to work with Amazon.com to release all four TEEN TRUTH films on Amazon Digital Video. Audiences all over the world can...
3 Simple Ways to Build School Culture
Visiting over 5,000 campuses has given TEEN TRUTH a unique insight into what it takes to build school culture. Even after just a minute or two of stepping into a school, we can generally feel the culture. We know within moments how engaged the students will be during...
How Smartphones Have Changed the Safety Standards in Schools
When it comes to children, the smartphone has gotten a bum rap in the recent years. Adults have placed the blame for everything from bullying to low grades on the same technology that they rely on for daily business and family planning. Since there is no reason to...
How to Build School Culture
Over the last 10 years I have visited more than 1,000 schools, and I can usually tell if a school has a positive school culture within minutes of stepping on campus. Research has proven that a positive school culture creates safer school communities, connects teens,...
Frisco ISD Starts RISING UP!
This July we worked with Frisco ISD in what has turned into a landmark event for the RISING UP: Coaching Program. RISING UP, designed specifically to help school counselors extend guidance efforts across campus, will be implemented in 18 schools across the district...
School Resource Officers + YOU = School Culture
This summer I was honored to serve as an adjunct instructor for Texas State University. Working directly through the Texas School Safety Center School-Based Law Enforcement Summits, we were able to bring TEEN TRUTH’s message to over 400 officers across Texas. As I...
We Need Your Passion
When I started RISING UP in 2012, I wanted to create a program that would help students work through adversity. Having worked with TEEN TRUTH in the anti-bully / school culture development field for the last 10 years I felt that this was a need for both students and...
End of School Sale
From big cities like New York and Los Angeles to smaller towns like Abilene, TX and Bend, OR, school budgets are often managed to source every possible benefit for every single penny. We’ve come to realize this in our business as well. I can recall eating a bag...
Registration Open
Registration is now open for TEEN TRUTH’s RISING UP: Coaching Program - Train the Trainer event. Become a certified trainer and build a peer-to-peer program that helps extend guidance efforts across your campus. This full day workshop will teach attendees the...
Do You Hear that Whisper?
Imagine you’re standing in a school auditorium, and a young student tells you that they’re cutting to relieve the pain in their life, and that they are being abused by their step mom. Imagine that student tells you they’re thinking about suicide. Now…imagine...
HDCE Builds School Culture
On April 14, 2016, TEEN TRUTH partnered with the Harris County Department of Education Center for Safe and Secure Schools in Houston, TX to offer the first ever TEEN TRUTH: Difference Maker Summit for adults. The 3-hour workshop featured student-driven content geared...
RISING UP on Facebook
Recently TEEN TRUTH's CEO, JC Pohl, went live on Facebook to discuss the RISING UP: Coaching Program - Trainer Certification Course coming up on June 7th in Austin, TX. To see a replay of the webinar please click the video below.