Discount Programming
To celebrate our 50th anniversary we are offering discount programming until the end of the school year!
Plays
CLIMB’s theatrical plays engage students with relatable characters, dynamic sets, and attention-grabbing costumes. Each performance will EMPOWER audiences through developmentally appropriate stories addressing topics such as bullying, mental health, and more!
Friendship Day
For Lower Elementary
Written by Buffy Sedlachek & Directed by Vanessa Brooke Agnes
Popular hedgehog Brooks and shy tortoise Ed come into conflict over their different experiences with the social world of their school. While Brooks received many friendship day treats from their classmates compared to Ed, both students feel like they struggle to connect with their peers. Luckily, new student Tory is a confident fox with some fun mnemonic tools at the ready to help Ed, Brooks, and the audience learn how to use empathy and good manners to make new friends.
Empathy and Manners
Pop Stars: The Pop Super Star Galaxy Finals
For Upper Elementary
Written by Heather Meyer & Directed by Adán Varela
Friends Maria Eva, Ollie, and Winnie are ready to take the universe by storm with their pop band MEOW, but there’s trouble in the cosmos when the trio have trouble speaking up and resolving conflict. Can they stay true to themselves and keep their friendship shining bright? Students will learn about handling responsibility, and taking care of themselves and each other.
Empathy and Well-Being
Relative Location
For Secondary
Written by Meredith Yanchak & Directed by Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan
Alex, Cam, and Morgan are overwhelmed with impending deadlines for the school magazine, tests that affect activity eligibility, and problems at home. Alex’s anxiety means he get accommodations for tests that the others don’t qualify for. When Cam fails the test and is off the school paper, the three friends find themselves forced to have discussions around equity, empathy, and putting wellbeing first (for themselves and for each other).
Empathy, Equity and Well-Being
Classes
CLIMB’s classes and workshops are the most customizable program that we offer. These 40 minute (30 mins for PreK), interactive, arts-integrated programs strengthen and exercise one or more character building skills. We have class available for PreK to 6th grade.
Educational Objectives:
- To define “empathy”
- To brainstorm times when empathy is and isn’t shown in the school environment
- To practice reading others’ body language and tone of voice in order to interpret how they might be feeling
- To role-play using empathy
- To encourage students to be kind to others at all times
Educational Objectives:
- Define ownership
- Learn from students’ times when they can take ownership
- Explore the deeper emotions that can cause someone to not take ownership
- Demonstrate the consequences on both the individual and the community when one does NOT take ownership
- Practice saying “I did that!”
Educational Objectives:
- Define: impulses, regulation, resiliency
- Explore: strong feelings and why they are so difficult to regulate
- Discuss: consequences for acting on strong feeling impulse
- Demonstrate: strategies that can help regulate feelings STAR
- Brainstorm: Ways to be resilient when you are struggling to regulate strong feelings especially feelings of hurt
Rallies
CLIMB Rallies combine the theatricality of a play with the interactive style of a class. Separate rallies are available for primary, intermediate, and secondary grade levels. We have rallies on bullying prevention, harassment prevention, and perseverance available. This assembly-style program is perfect for smaller schools or for reaching individual grades.
Playground Problems
For Lower Elementary
Educational Objectives:
- To define bullying behavior through demonstration
- To explain the difference between reporting and tattling
- To explore strategies people can use to self-advocate when targeted by bullying
- To create understanding and empathy for the person who is bullied
- To inspire the people who see bullying to take action and to demonstrate actions they can take, as well as strategies to avoid participating in bullying
Heroes
For Upper Elementary
Educational Objectives:
- To explain the difference between bullying behavior and other instances of meanness or conflict
- To define cyberbullying and explore strategies to advocate for yourself and others in online spaces
- To teach students how to manage a bullying situation using techniques including self-regulation, disengagement, and standing up for yourself effectively
- To define the role of the bystander, and explore reasons why bystanders may choose not to take action
- To imbue students with the knowledge that they are able to work out some interpersonal problems on their own
Social Scene
For Middle School
Educational Objectives:
- Define bullying vs harassment, cyber-bulling, and power
- To identify various forms of harassment (includes verbal, physical, and cyber harassment)
- To help students understand that harassment doesn’t have to be tolerated, even if it is positioned as “just a joke”
- Investigate and demonstrate strategies to advocate for self and others when they are harassed and take action
- Explore the impacts of harassment on the person harassed, bystanders, the school community, and even the person who is harassing
Bouncing Back
For Lower Elementary
Educational Objectives:
- To define “perseverance”
- To brainstorm situations in school and home settings when it might be difficult to persevere
- To learn ways to overcome obstacles one might face when attempting to persevere
- To practice Positive Self Talk (PST)
- To encourage students to be resilient
GOAL!
For Upper Elementary
Educational Objectives:
- To define “perseverance”
- To brainstorm situations in school and home settings when it might be difficult to persevere
- To learn ways to overcome obstacles one might face when attempting to persevere
- To practice Positive Self Talk (PST)
- To encourage students to be resilient