Journey to Success™
Based on John Wooden's Pyramid of Success™
This planner teaches students to use the 14 character traits from the Pyrmaid of Success™ to reach competitive greatness.
Journey to Success™ – Primary
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This planner program is specifically designed for primary and elementary students to develop traits that help them thrive academically and succeed in all areas of life. Easy-to-implement activities and worksheets provided to educators help facilitate lesson planning and decrease prep time for teachers.
With a strong emphasis on parent partnerships, the family interaction and involvement in this planner program—such as at-home activities and use of the Pyramid throughout the weekly pages—becomes easy and fun. Character traits are integrated throughout the planner, and parents are given a language to use at home with their kids.
- August: Let the Journey Begin
An introduction for students to begin their Journey to Success, learning how to make good choices based on the experiences of the characters', Inch and Miles.
- September: Hard Work & Enthusiasm
Teach students that hard work and enthusiasm is an important part of becoming successful.
- October: Friendship
Friendship is a foundational block of the Pyramid, students explore what good friendships look like and the importance of teamwork.
- November: Loyalty & Cooperation
Provide students with a look at what loyalty and cooperation means and how they can apply it within their own lives.
- December: Self-Control
Help students learn how to identify what a person looks like and acts like when he or she is using self-control.
- January: Alertness & Action
Students learn to be aware of their surroundings and take action when needed.
- February: Determination
Teach students to continue trying to accomplish their goals and if needed, find new ways to do things.
- March: Fitness & Skill
Learning to do new things and remaining active is an important part of staying focused and energized.
- April: Team Spirit
Get students excited about working together and finding ways to apply team spirit to their school day.
- May: Poise & Confidence
Help students increase their confidence level and know how to recognize those who show poise and how that can help them in school.
- June: Personal Best
The framework of the Pyramid helps students strive to be the best they can be.
Specifications
Code: JTSP-B8
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Page Count: 144
Start Date: Aug. 5, 2013
End Date: June 29, 2014
Layout Format: Block
Journey to Success™ – Elementary
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This planner program is specifically designed for primary and elementary students to develop traits that help them thrive academically and succeed in all areas of life. Easy-to-implement activities and worksheets provided to educators help facilitate lesson planning and decrease prep time for teachers.
The elementary planner extends the learning and personal application of the building blocks as the student matures. Students develop a deeper understanding of each block and are challenged to apply and look for the character attributes to their own lives and circumstances. Activities provided in the planner are age-appropriate and support students in further developing their language arts competencies.
- August: Let the Journey Begin
An introduction for students to begin their Journey to Success, learning how to make good choices based on the experiences of the characters', Inch and Miles.
- September: Hard Work & Enthusiasm
Teach students that hard work and enthusiasm is an important part of becoming successful.
- October: Friendship
Friendship is a foundational block of the Pyramid, students explore what good friendships look like and the importance of teamwork.
- November: Loyalty & Cooperation
Provide students with a look at what loyalty and cooperation means and how they can apply it within their own lives.
- December: Self-Control
Help students learn how to identify what a person looks like and acts like when he or she is using self-control.
- January: Alertness & Action
Students learn to be aware of their surroundings and take action when needed.
- February: Determination
Teach students to continue trying to accomplish their goals and if needed, find new ways to do things.
- March: Fitness & Skill
Learning to do new things and remaining active is an important part of staying focused and energized.
- April: Team Spirit
Get students excited about working together and finding ways to apply team spirit to their school day.
- May: Poise & Confidence
Help students increase their confidence level and know how to recognize those who show poise and how that can help them in school.
- June: Personal Best
The framework of the Pyramid helps students strive to be the best they can be.
Specifications
Code: JTSE-M8
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Page Count: 144
Start Date: Aug. 5, 2013
End Date: June 29, 2014
Layout Format: Matrix
Take a Closer Look
Supported with educator tools.
To ensure our products are easy to use and provide the most impact possible, we provide extra resources that help educators integrate the program into the classroom. Learn more about our product support in the Online section above.
Empower students.
By having students concentrate on good character development, they begin to understand their role in the world. Daily, habitual planning centered around this allows them to practice good character traits every day.
Promote parent involvement in learning.
Journey to Success initiates essential, effective parent partnerships by providing at-home activities that seek parental involvement and space for home-to-school communication. Educators are provided with family newsletter content and activities that parents can do with their students to encourage using the traits at home.
Daily character development put into practice.
Create opportunities to apply the Pyramid character traits to daily experiences. A series of questions, tips and activities that support student reflection and action on the character traits are embedded within the character units and student planner.
Student-centric design to promote independence.
This planner program is specifically designed for primary and elementary students to develop traits that help them thrive academically and succeed in all areas of life. It equips students with morals, values, responsibility, and independence, and students gain the knowledge of conflict resolution.
Bring literature and character-development traits to life.
The much-loved storybook characters—Inch and Miles and their friends— make literature fun and engaging. The Pyramid of Success™ character traits come to life through the adventures of these adored characters.
Encourage all kids to "join the club".
Invite students to become a part of The Questers' Club—a group of characters that take a journey to learn about and display the different traits in Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success™. Encourage students to discover the character traits through unique, skill-building Coach's Classroom activities that help further their quest for success.
What's Included
Product Support:
Journey.schoolspecialty.com is a dedicated resource. The website houses a variety of downloadable support items designed to help educators implement this program in their classroom. See the Online section above for details.
Monthly Coach's Classroom Pages:
Several pages at the start of each month are full of fun, engaging activities that build literary and language arts skills. Cross-curricular activities reinforce character traits.
Monthly Theme Pages:
One or two character traits from the Pyramid are introduced each month. An ongoing story holds students' attention, and they look forward to the month's new development.
Monthly Calendars:
Opening with an activity, often one that involves parents at home, the monthly calendar pages allow students to map out how and where they'll exemplify the monthly character trait in the coming weeks.
Weekly Calendars:
The weekly pages feature bite-sized reinforcement of the monthly character trait to help students engage with the material. Throughout the weeks, students are encouraged to reflect how the theme relates to them and their own lives.
onTRAC® User Guide
This tool is integrated into the weekly calendars of the planner. The User Guide provides an introduction on how to use the onTRAC planning steps found in the planner. where students are prompted to Think, Record, Act, and Check.
Resource Pages:
Academic content and reference pages are provided within the planner.
Cover:
Select an exclusive cover that matches the theme of your planner, such as Ahoy Mateys and Kindness (shown), or choose from our wide selection of free covers.
onTRAC® Pagefinder:
Let students find the current date easily with this helpful snap-into-place pagefinder. It also reinforces the onTRAC® process.
Student Recognition and Pyramid of Success™ Posters:
Posters help students reflect on the character traits (one set included per 25 planners ordered)
Also Available for Purchase
These Items Exclusively Available With Journey to Success™ Purchase!
Storybooks
Inch and Miles: The Journey to Success children's book teaches the meaning of each building block within the Pyramid of Success™.
Journey to Success™ Banner
Make a big Journey to Success™ statement at your school with this attractive 4' x 8' vinyl banner.
Questers' Guide
Reward students with Questers' Badges for completing various activities from this supplemental booklet. Each activity enforces a different block from the Pyramid of Success™.
Journey to Success™ Journal
Encourages students to practice important writing skills while they reflect on the blocks that make up the Pyramid of Success™. The journal provides ties into the Journey to Success™ themes.
Pencil Bundle
Reward your students' character growth with these colorful pencils. Imprinted character words reinforce monthly themes in a fun way. One bundle includes a set of each of the 15 different themes, 180 pencils total.
Award Bundle
Recognize and motivate your students' character accomplishments with Inch and Miles Journey to Success™ Awards. Awards are 5" x 8" cards. Each bundle includes 25 rewards.
Sticker Bundle
Colorful 2" stickers are great for backpacks, notebooks, folders, paper, or the shirt of a deserving student. Each bundle includes 450 stickers featuring the cast from the Inch and Miles book.
Online Educator Support Pieces
The included educator support pieces elevate the program's effectiveness without adding more work for busy teachers. That is why we created Journey.schoolspecialty.com, a website where educators can download support pieces.
- Resource support package: Program overview, staff support guide, classroom teacher guide, and parent/family guide—all available for download to help teach the onTRAC® planning system.
- Lesson plans: These 22 ready-made lesson plans reinforce concepts introduced in the Journey to Success™ planner. Extension activities are also included to help take specific lessons further.
- Resources: Utilize various items relating to Coach John Wooden and the Pyramid of Success™.
- PDFs for use on interactive whiteboards: Download a reusable onTRAC® calendar PDF that helps educators model planner use and teach the onTRAC® planning system. Go one step further and order the full planner PDF to model the student planner in its entirety.
- Family newsletters: Send these already prepared newsletters to encourage home-to-school communication and address the same topics found in the Journey to Success™ planners.
- Quarterly educator newsletters: These newsletters provide information and tips to administrators and educators about the resources available and how to utilize them effectively. Delivered four times per year: August, October, January and March.
All this support adds additional value and helps educators get the most from the Journey to Success™ planner program.
Tribute to "The Coach"
Coach John Wooden: A Legendary Leader
"Success is a peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best that you are capable of being."John R. Wooden
October 14, 1910 - June 4, 2010
Coach John Wooden dedicated his life to helping others become their personal best. He coached countless players to become winners not only on the court, but in life. He taught students the true meaning of success.
John Wooden's Journey to Success began on October 14, 1910, in Hall, IN. When he was eight, his family moved to a farm in Centerton, IN --the home of the first basketball hoop that John would shoot a ball through. When he was fourteen, his family fell on hard times and had to leave the farm. The move brought many great things, such as the love of John's life, Nell. While living in Martinsville, John met Nell. It was a relationship that would last sixty years, until Nell passed away in 1985. It was also in Martinsville that John's basketball career blossomed. He was a star player and team captain for Martinsville High School.
John's success was not limited to the court. He was a strong student who was honored for academic excellence. After high school, he enrolled at Purdue University, where he studied English and played ball. During his university career, he was a three-time All-American player and was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame as an outstanding player. Later in life, he was inducted again for his coaching efforts. He is one of only two men to be enshrined into the Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.
In September of 1932, John Wooden officially became "Coach" Wooden when he took his first teaching and coaching job. As he taught, he realized he wanted to help his students and players achieve personal success, and to do so he coined his definition of success and began to construct the Pyramid of Success®. Coach spent fourteen years refining and strengthening the Pyramid, completing it in 1948. Now, almost six decades later, these foundational behaviors have stood the test of time and are as rock-solid as the first day Coach established his two foundational cornerstones of hard work and enthusiasm.
After a brief military career during WWII, Coach Wooden began coaching at Indiana State University. He coached his team to many wins, including the Indiana State Conference title. His winning team was invited to play at the NAIA Tournament, but he turned the invitation down because African-Americans were not allowed to play. The following season he led his team to State Conference victory again, and this time the NAIA changed its policy to include African-American players. A proud moment for Coach was when he heard one of his African-American players tell a reporter, "Coach doesn't see color; he sees ball players."
In 1948, UCLA offered Coach Wooden a job that would change his coaching career. It was there that he coached his team to break numerous records --records that will probably never be broken. Just a few examples are:
- The most appearances in the Final Four (16 times).
- The most consecutive victories (88).
- Thirty-eight straight victories in NCAA tournaments.
Coach Wooden also coached several athletes who later became NBA stars. However, even though his players and teams were stars, he never focused on winning. He focused on teaching them to be the best people they could be.
Coach Wooden retired from coaching basketball in 1975. During his retirement, he focused on coaching people how to be their personal best through his Pyramid of Success©. He wrote many books, including a children's book, Inch and Miles: Journey to Success, which teaches young children about the Pyramid. Incredibly, the wisdom that made Coach Wooden a master of developing talent at the high school and college level many years ago is now being brought into elementary classrooms!
Coach Wooden was a man who dedicated his life to helping others reach their full potential. It is our company's honor to present his life's work in a form that helps youth set and achieve high goals.
Make it Your Own
Planners are great tools for your students, but why not have them work a little harder for you. Customize them with your school's information, and use them as a continual communication piece between administrators, teachers and students.
School Handbook:
The most efficient and cost-effective way to communicate school policies, schedules and events is to add your important school information right into your planners. Learn more about school handbooks.
Handbook Resource Pages:
Add additional academic resources to your handbook. Choose from more than 100 resource pages. Our extensive library of helpful resource pages can assist students in a number of subject areas. View our complete library of resource pages.
Content Supplements:
Put a spotlight on important issues relevant to your school by choosing from our vast library of supplements. Advance school priorities with resources tied to current curriculum and standards, critical life skills, health and wellness, and more.
Cover:
Design your own cover that reflects school spirit, or choose from one of our templates that align with the goals you've established for you school. Incorporate your school name front and center, right on the cover!
Enhancements:
Add a few more features to make your planners truly inspiring to students. Planning stickers, pagefinders, trackable hall passes, planner tabs, student ID/CD/Home-School pouches, two-hole ruler attachments – choose the enhancements that raise the cool factor.
Submitted by kurt on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 4:03pm
