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School District Adoption icon — Ellis Abel Learns Book 3, confidence, for children ages 5-16

Ages 5-16 · Book 3, Confidence · 4,299 places

School District Adoption

One vocabulary for effort and practice across a district, so the language in PE matches the language in maths.

Built on Ellis Abel and the Magic Triangle — “Turn fear into confidence, one step at a time.” A character series, not a curriculum with a worldview attached.

The five sessions

  1. Session 1

    Scope: age bands, group sizes, session length, leader experience

  2. Session 2

    Materials: story, leader script, family take-home, printable pack

  3. Session 3

    Train the team — one session, with the hard cases rehearsed

  4. Session 4

    Run one term and capture what the children actually did

  5. Session 5

    Review, adjust the pack, and set the next term

Questions leaders ask

Is school district adoption in your area a religious program?

No. Ellis Abel is a character series. Each volume carries one named core value — this one is confidence — and the story does the teaching. There is no doctrine in it, nothing to opt out of, and it is used in public schools, libraries and secular programs as readily as anywhere else.

What ages does this work for?

Ages 5-16. The story is read aloud, so a child who cannot read yet is fully in it, and the discussion prompts are written in two bands so one adult can hold a mixed-age room.

What does a your area licence include?

The volumes, the session material, leader scripts, family take-home pages, and the right to run it under your own program name. Terms are set per organisation and per size, so there is no single-price page.

Do we have to use your branding?

No. You keep your name, your leaders and your program. The books are the spine, not the sign over the door.

The rules that make it work

Confidence is earned, in that order, every time

Commitment, then competency, then confidence. Almost every adult teaches it backwards by trying to install the feeling first, and children can tell.

Ugly reps are the work, not a warning sign

A child promised that practice feels good quits on the third attempt. Say in advance that it will look bad, and the bad-looking part stops meaning anything.

Praise the count, never the talent

"You're a natural" is a compliment a child cannot use and cannot rebuild from. Sixty reps is a fact they own and can do again.

Nobody is compared to anybody

The count is against last week's count. A room where children are ranked teaches the ones at the bottom to stop starting.

Adults commit out loud too

A coach or a parent naming a thing they are bad at and are practising anyway is worth more than any session on effort.

This is a character story, not a performance program

Technique belongs to the coach and the teacher. This handles the part that has nothing to do with technique, and never scores a child on either.

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Cities and all 3,143 US counties are covered too — every place page is live. The campaign sitemap lists every one.

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The rest of the series

Book 1AccountabilityBig feelings. Small choices. Real accountability.Book 2BelongingBeing brave means showing up anyway.Book 4DiscernmentChoose what you feed within.Book 5EmpathyWhat matters more than earning a Gold Star?Book 6FaithDifference isn’t weakness. It’s a gift.