Plays and Rallies
Two assembly styles designed for different audiences sizes and needs.
Through our assemblies, CLIMB teaches positive behavior skills in a fun and engaging way. Our interactive performances are designed to exercise and strengthen one or more of our EMPOWER skills (Empathy, Manners, Perseverance, Ownership, Well-Being, Equity, & Regulation).
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!
Bake It Till You Make It
Perseverance and Well-Being for Lower Elementary
Written by Cris Eli Blak
Baker is so excited to enter his school’s cookie making contest! But baking cookies is more difficult than it seems. When problems arise, he’ll need help to figure out how to use perseverance to finish the contest. Luckily, there’s some pretty smart cookies there to teach him what to do. Will Baker have a crumby day? Or will he persevere, bake his cookie, and win? Let’s find out which way the cookie crumbles!
Educational Objectives
- To define well-being.
- To provide students with mnemonic tools they can implement to assist in self-soothing and well-being practices.
- To identify times when it may be difficult to manage our well-being.
- To explore the acronym BAKE.
- To instill the importance of perseverance and trying your best.
Leilani’s Lemonade
Perseverance and Well-Being forUpper Elementary
Written by Luke Aaron Davidson
Leilani and Lucas have big dreams for their lemonade stand! But when yapping dogs, silly neighbors, and endless arguing get in their way, it seems like their dream will never come true. Their only hope is to practice their perseverance and well-being to save the day. When life hands them lemons, will they be able to make lemonade? Or will their summer turn sour?
Educational Objectives
- To define perseverance.
- To encourage students to be resilient and overcome obstacles to achieve a goal.
- To define well-being.
- To explore the importance of well-being and its impact on overall mental health.
- To encourage empathy and positive behavior skills in friendships.
Make a Splash!
Environmental Conservation for Lower Elementary
Written by Caitlin Featherstone
When Gil meets a beautiful mermaid during his family vacation to the beach, he can’t wait to hear all about the exciting adventures of a life lived under the sea. But Coral the Mermaid’s ocean home is in trouble, and it’s up to Gil and the school of fish to help save the day! Life is the bubbles when we find ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and keep our waters clean. In this interactive, under-the-sea adventure, students will learn that, when it comes to taking care of our earth, if we all do our part, even kids can make a splash!
- To define reusing, reducing, and recycling
- To distinguish between items that can be reused, reduced, and recycled and items that cannot
- To help students understand why we shouldn’t just throw everything in the garbage can
- To encourage students to care for the environment
- To emphasize the importance of keeping our lakes and oceans clean
- To encourage environmental responsibility and feelings of Ownership and Empathy towards the environment
Suddenly, Save More!
Environmental Conservation for Upper Elementary
Written by Heather Meyer
5th grader Ferris has no idea what he’s going to present for his school project about the environment. When his prized potted plant starts talking, singing, and teaching him all about environmental conservation, it seems like his A+ is in the bag! That is, until he finds out the peril our environment is in and his sister thinks he’s making the whole thing up, and… wait, is the talking plant trying to take over the world?! Come along with Ferris to learn all about reducing, reusing, recycling, and saving the planet (in more ways than one). This show is sure to plant the seeds of environmental responsibility and help students’ learning grow!
- To emphasize the importance of taking environmental responsibility
- To foster feelings of Ownershipand Empathy towards the environment
- To explain the negative consequences of excess waste and water usage
- To definereducing, reusing, and recycling as a possible solution to minimizing waste production
- To help students understand potential negative side effects of AI
- To teach what the importance of water conservation and cleanliness
- To provide students with the distinction between renewable and non-renewable resources
2026 Summer Programming
For libraries and summer schools/extracurricular programs, we’ve got just the presentations you need!
Dig Dino, Dig!
For libraries following the CSLP 2026 Reading Theme
Written by Caitlin Featherstone
There are so many things Sue wants to do, but every time she tries something new, something unexpected goes wrong and it just gets too hard. When digging in her backyard, she unearths the TRYceratops, who is back from the late Cretaceous period, full of prehistoric stories and ready to make some new ones. With the help of the TRYceratops, Sue learns to persevere, not give up, and overcome obstacles to achieve her goals.
Perseverance
Once Upon a Beanstalk
For libraries following the iRead 2026 Reading Theme
Written by Caitlin Featherstone
Jack is a curious kid who loves adventures, exploring, and digging up new ideas. When he finds a magic bean, he plants it in hopes of growing lots of food for his family. Much to Jack’s surprise, it grows a giant beanstalk that stretches all the way into the sky. Being the adventurer he is, Jack climbs the beanstalk and discovers the Land of the Giants. However, in this new land, Jack just can’t keep his hands to himself and keeps taking things that don’t belong to him. With the help of the audience, Jack learns to own up to his actions and plant a SEED to succeed.
Regulation
The Amazing Linguine
Environmental Conservation for libraries
Written by Caitlin Featherstone
Carly doesn’t know what to do about all the litter at her favorite playground. But then… Pesto, Change-o! The Amazing Linguine appears, to show us all the wonderful ways that reducing, reusing, and recycling can transform our trash into something truly magical. You won’t believe your eyes!
Empathy
Rallies
CLIMB Rallies combine the theatricality of a play with the interactive style of a class. Separate rallies are available for each EMPOWER skill for primary, intermediate, and secondary grade levels. Plus, we have rallies for each grade range that teach students how to handle bullying or harassment situations. 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
…And More!
This program is customizable for your school and students! Get in touch with our team to create your very own rally. You can select which of our E.M.P.O.W.E.R skills you’d like to focus on, and our actors will guide activities, games, and scenarios based on those skills. This allows students to see problems and solutions in action! Rallies have a maximum of 150 elementary students or 250 middle/high school students per assembly, and last 40 minutes.