has brought together a diverse group of professionals to pave the way for the copyrighted Life Skills Solutions™ training curriculum developed by UPI Education Founder & President, Frank Crump, in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders including content experts, teachers, school administrators, parents and street-smart writers.
including disconnected, disadvantaged and foster youth, the Life Skills Solutions™ curriculum establishes clear and consistent goals for learning that will prepare and motivate America’s teens/young adults to move forward towards higher learning and training.
The UPI Life Skills Solutions™ curriculum satisfies the market demands found within our nation’s public, private and charter schools, juvenile agencies, faith-based and youth organizations. For example, within middle and high schools many teachers have a Need for something that will build the confidence of students.
These teachers Want something that will motivate the entire classroom and they would Value the Life Skills Solutions™ curriculum for bringing the class together, engaging student’s desires for learning and promoting respect for the school environment and insight into life and living.
As students search for their place in the world, they Hunger for meaningful communication with adults. Students may not often seek but they do Require, role models and Specific Direction. Without proper adult supervision and support our teens/youth are made vulnerable to negative influences and are subject to walking the wrong path with little or no forewarning of the consequences.
“The function of Education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
“Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”
UPI Education’s Facilitators (trainers) and students discuss life’s opportunities and situations as they focus on options and choices as a means to fulfilling academic goals and personal aspirations.
The UPI Education program, lesson plans, and feedback mechanisms facilitate all discussions — insuring program consistency, student understanding, best practice principles and overall program success.
To prepare students for living successfully in the world by:
“I applaud the ideas of UPI Education, as I also believe that it is very necessary for school students to be taught the everyday skills of life and society, in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Over the past thirty-five years, I have spoken often of the need for a plan like UPI Education; the need for something to compliment our traditional curriculum and instruction focus.”
