Character & student leadership
Help students practice Resilience, Integrity, Service, and Excellence through mentoring, responsibility, and opportunities to lead.
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For schools & districts
Strong students.
Stronger school communities.
Partner with Let’s Rise Above to build character, strengthen family connections, and help students grow as leaders. We work with your team to shape support around your campus priorities.
Celebrating students with the families and school community behind them.
Support shaped around your campus
What does your school need most?
Together, we identify priorities and the combination of services that fits your students and school community.
Attendance & engagement
Support the relationships, goal-setting, and daily habits that help students connect with school and stay engaged in learning.
Family partnership
Connect school and home through family workshops, shared challenges, and opportunities to celebrate student growth.
Enrichment conferences
Bring students and families together for experiences centered on identity, confidence, leadership, and community.
Staff support
Discuss training and support that help your team reinforce relationships, accountability, and student growth.
Campus connection
Create opportunities for students to encourage one another, contribute through service, and build a stronger sense of belonging.
A collaborative approach
From campus priorities to a shared plan.
Listen
Start with your students, campus strengths, and areas where support is needed.
Plan
Agree on services, goals, schedules, and roles that fit your campus.
Implement
Bring the plan to life through consistent relationships and purposeful activities.
Review
Look at progress using the measures and reporting periods agreed with your team.
Adjust
Reflect together and refine the support as student and campus needs evolve.
2024–25 reported program results
Keeping student
progress in view.
62%
fewer absences for fifth-grade leaders
50%
fewer absences for fourth-grade mentees
Results reported by Let’s Rise Above for these student groups during 2024–25.
A school partner’s perspective
Hear from San Jacinto Elementary
Dr. Valdovinos shares a school leader’s perspective in this year-end mentoring program video.
Watch the School Perspective ↗
1 minute, 55 seconds · Press play to watch here, or use the YouTube link above.
Conferences that build connection
Bring students, families,
and your school together.
Explore African American enrichment, boys’ and girls’ conferences, and custom cultural or student enrichment experiences.
Voices from the conference community
Hear perspectives from parents and a school family/community liaison about participating in a Let’s Rise Above conference.
Watch Conference Perspectives ↗
4 minutes, 48 seconds · Opens in Google Drive.
Planning a partnership.
Where do we start?
Tell us about your campus, the students you want to support, and your priorities. The first conversation helps us identify a useful next step together.
Can support fit our school’s schedule and budget?
We’ll discuss your schedule, available funding, and service priorities while developing the proposed scope of work.
How will we review progress?
We’ll agree on goals and ways to review progress with your team. Depending on the services, those conversations may focus on attendance, engagement, leadership, or family participation.