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Educational Services


Welcome to the New Millennium Institute Educational Services information page. We are the premier provider of Stop Tripping Over Your Own Feet College and Career Readiness Programs. Our goal is to provide the very best in College and Career Readiness Programs.  

 

James (Agbara) Bryson is an award-winning educator and national trainer who, specializes in self-handicapping behaviors. He designs programs that engage educators, students from middle school to college, parents and communities while promoting personal, academic, and career success and healthy lifestyles. His passion and commitment for seeing students, parents, and communities succeed has made him realize that 21st century educators have to wake up and teach a new way! He believes everyone feels incompetent in some arena of life but everyone strives to be successful.

As an award-winning Educator, he utilizes his strategies and concepts to reduce academic self-handicapping behavior in his student success courses and workbooks and African American Male Program. Using his Stop Tripping curriculum and workbooks, ” has boasts higher than average retention rates.  


Stop Tripping Over Your Own Feet College and Career Readiness Program," provides on-site parent, student and staff development presentations, conferences or training or school assembly for students. We also provide a two day on-site facilitation, and “train the trainer” which certifies schools and district personnel to facilitate the program.  Our programs provide traditional as well as low income at risk grade school, high school or college students skills and tools that help them to stop tripping over their own feet and maximize their personal, academic, and career potential.   


We also offer programs that target African American Males. Our program model incorporates innovative best practices designed to increase opportunities for student and teacher engagement by creating a welcoming environment where students feel comfortable and competent. This is accomplished through advising, mentoring, community, and school involvement.

   

Mr. Bryson founder of Illinois Central College's Harvesting Dreams African American Male Program was designed to enhance a sense of inclusion and develop student leaders and mentors.  His program model produced middle school, high school and college chapters, and “Student of the Year, ” and Phi Theta Kappa honor students. The program also received recognition from Illinois Lt. Governor Shelia Simons and a City Proclamation from the Mayor of Peoria for the program’s African American Male Conference and its impact on the community.

A major component of the program model uses a student centered learning approach and the Stop Tripping Workbook and Empowering African Males to Succeed books. Both books are relevant and deals with issues that are important to the student population. The content of the books concentrated on self-efficacy and self-handicapping behaviors.

 

THE PARENT INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM

Parent involvement is critical in helping students and schools achieve academic success. There is shared accountability between schools and parents for student achievement. Research shows that parent involvement enhances student self-efficacy and success.

A major challenge for many schools is minimum parent involvement. Being a parent and especially a single parent is challenging and stressful. Parents who are unsure of their skills and abilities lack motivation, confidence and self-efficacy for involvement.

We embrace the notion that parents have far greater potential and their potential is dictated by what they think. This is why we have developed a new and powerful program that teaches parents to believe that they have the power and the ability to reach their goals and learn to become a partner with teachers and participate in school activities to help their children learn and succeed.

PARENTS WILL:

Learn strategies that enhance personal and educational effectiveness 

Utilize mental technology strategies to enhance self-efficacy and expand comfort zones

Become more involved in child’s education and connect with teachers and school personnel

Develop a deeper sense of trust and bond with school instructors and administrators

Feel like a partner in their child’s education

Become more motivated to learn


WAKE UP! IT’S TIME TO TEACH A NEW WAY!

A major challenge facing communities and educators across the country is finding ways to increase the graduation rate of students. Students are dropping out of school in greater numbers. Public schools and its traditional teaching methods have not met the needs of many students. Sadly, those who dropout, will not able to participate in living the American Dream and many will become socially, politically and economically obsolete.

The New Millennium Institute believes that it is time to teach a new way! We embrace the notion that students have far greater potential than they use but limit themselves by their self-handicapping thoughts which sabotages self-efficacy and academic success.

This is why we have developed a new and powerful program that helps students, and educators to recognize self-handicapping behaviors and provide mental technology rooted in cognitive science that help students enhance academic potential by helping them to understand who they are and what they want to become and how to get there.

Imagine a program where learners:

 Boost academic achievement

Improve student and teacher engagement

Reduce absences

Fewer disruptive behaviors

Become more competent in their abilities and future

Overcome self-handicapping behaviors

Take responsibility for their behavior 

Have a goal-oriented, systematic process that enhances self-efficacy 

Incorporate mental technology to change and improve their lives 

Implementation Options

Stop Tripping Over Your Own Feet Academic Success Program provides an on-site one day seminar /workshop for educators or school assembly for students. We also provide a two day on-site facilitation, and “train the trainer” which certifies schools and district personnel to facilitate the program.