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You Can Do It! Secondary School programs

YCDI EDUCATION AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

The You Can Do It! Secondary Schools program promotes social-emotional skills (resilience, confidence, persistence, organisation, getting along) for secondary school students.

  • Online

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: Be You

Product type: Program; Posters; Fact sheets; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Activity sheets; Student activities; Professional learning; Whole school approach or initiative; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

YCDI EDUCATION AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
ABN: 31 685 307 733

https://youcandoiteducation.com.au/secondary-school/

enquiries@youcandoiteducation.com.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Self-esteem and body image

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Student, self-directed

Aims & approach

The You Can Do It (YCDI)! Secondary School Wellbeing and Achievement Online Student Programs include:

Program Achieve Secondary (year levels 7 - 10) is a Preventative Mental and Health Wellbeing Curriculum that promotes social-emotional skills (resilience, confidence, persistence, organisation, getting along) for secondary school students.

The Successful Mind for School, Work and Life course: (year levels 9 - 12) with Student Handbook and supported by a digital Leader's Guide which contains background information and a session plan for each of the 10 sessions.

The aim of these programs is to accelerate the development in 7-12 students of social-emotional learning skills, positive attitudes (e.g., self-acceptance, high frustration tolerance, growth mindset, optimism) including attitudes (e.g., time management, goal setting) and behaviours for learning (academic confidence, persistence, teamwork).

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support

Evidence

The YCDI! programs are underpinned by multiple theories: social-emotional learning, resilience, positive psychology, intrinsic motivation, cognitive-behavioural, rational-emotive behaviour therapy, rational-emotive education, interpersonal cognitive, problem-solving. Research showing positive impact includes:

Bernard, M.E., and Walton, K.E (2011). The effect of You Can Do It! Education in six schools on student perceptions of wellbeing, teaching-learning and relationships. Journal of Student Wellbeing, 5, 22-37. https://doi.org/10.21913/JSW.v5i1.679

Yamamoto, T., Matsumoto, Y., and Bernard, M.E. (2017). Effect of the cognitive-behavioral You Can Do It! Education program on the resilience of Japanese elementary school students: A preliminary investigation. International Journal of Education Research, 86, 50-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2017.08.006