BALFOUR - SUPPORTING SCHOOLS BY PROVIDING TRAINING WORKSHOPS, CURRICULUM, TOOLS, AND RESOURCES FOR THE REAL WORLD
In addition to helping high schools build strong legacies filled with wonderful traditions Balfour proudly supports programs aimed at positively guiding today's students and supporting the efforts of teachers, administrators, and schools. The companies we have chosen to partner with provide resources that:

• Reinforce students’ values and ethics through character building, leadership, and life skills education.
• Increase campus security and safety with innovative technological solutions.
• Re-energize and elevate the classroom with faculty trainings.
• Address classroom discipline problems and provide an arena for dealing with them in a positive and effective way.
• Work to prevent drug abuse.

We have a vested interest in young people, not only from a business perspective but from a social and personal perspective. The success of today's young people is fundamental to the future of our country.

Trainings for Students, Teachers, and Administrators

The Flippen Group - www.flippengroup.com

• Building Champions - Focuses on how to create a high-functioning and performing classroom, tailor your teaching approach, build trust with and among students, cultivate cooperation, and reduce discipline problems.
• Capturing Kids' Hearts - Trains teachers and administrators how to motivate students and successfully energize, reorganize and more effectively manage the classrooms.

4Sight Learning - www.4sightlearning.com

• Six Big Ideas for Teaching & Learning - Teaching principles for organizing and delivering instruction that reliably produce higher levels of success and achievement.
• Teaching…Take This Job & Love It! - Strategies of highly successful teachers for higher levels of teacher effectiveness, better attitudes and morale, and improved student achievement.
• Requisites of a Leader - Provides working systems for current and aspiring school leaders.
• LeaderNext - This program utilizes cutting-edge media that engages the students to effectively illustrate the principles of leadership.

Pathways to Leadership - www.pathwaystoleadership.org

• Your One-Room Schoolhouse - This workshop narrows the focus to the classroom and helps educators examine: how they project themselves within it, what type of environment they have cultivated, and how they can be an effective educator.
• Leaders for Life - Focuses on building student leaders to be a more productive force within the school and community.
• Pathways to Leadership - Aimed at activating high school students and cultivating responsible young leaders, this program focuses on students who have already demonstrated leadership qualities then seeks to build on them. Through this process they start to make personal discoveries and ordered sense of how to clearly establish and achieve their goals, building confidence and inspiring them to positively impact their community and school.
• Lead Like a Champion - Discipline, drive, time management, recognition of authority, organizational skills, teamwork, the willingness to stand out front ­ athletes thrive on traits that make good leaders. This athletes-only seminar focuses on enhancing the skills athletes have already demonstrated in practice and on the field of competition

Tools

MindOH! - www.mindoh.com

• The MindOH! Discipline Series is an interactive Web-based system that addresses situation-specific needs of students with discipline issues

Raptor Technologies - www.raptorware.com

• V-Soft - Visitor, Student, Or Faculty Tracking. Provides an effective, efficient method for tracking, but goes beyond conventional applications by utilizing available public databases to help control campus security.

Curriculum

The Flippen Group - www.flippengroup.com

• Keystone - (Kindergarten ­ 5th Grade) Employs techniques to change students’ basic perceptions of their roles and responsibilities as well as how they behave and relate to others
• Teen Leadership - (High school and Middle students) Provides tools for life and challenges students to develop principles that will serve as the foundation for the choices they make throughout their lives.

Resources

Speakers Bureau - Provides nationally acclaimed speakers from Bright Ideas partners the Flippen Group and 4sight Learning to schools for keynotes, assemblies, and in-service trainings. Topics include a variety of subjects including Leadership, Drug Abuse Prevention, and School Safety and can be tailored to address the unique needs of each school.

Drug Abuse Prevention - Balfour supports the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Program.

• Educates young people about the realities of illicit drugs and their true cost while providing tools to take control and reject their use. Offers expert resources to teenagers and their parents to help them understand the dangers of drug use and how to have honest conversations about the importance of staying drug-free.
• Parents, for more information go to www.theantidrug.com or www.laantidroga.com. Kids and Teens, for more information visit www.freevibe.com Or call 1.800.788.2800