The Decision Education Foundation

“Carl spetzler, vice president, is the father of chris spetzler, executive director”

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“Decision focus animated video program: def produced a series of 10 animated videos that carry the core content of the decision quality model for delivery to students. The series, called decision focus, replaced the its your choice series that had been developed 2010-2013 and used in programs 2013-2018, but had become less relevant to students over time. Teachers and students responded positively to the decision focus series, which is used in the strongstart and steps to success programs and is posted for public access on the def website, youtube and vimeo.steps to success program: def worked with longtime oregon partner, junction city high school, to develop and implement a 9th grade success class for all incoming freshman based on def material. Def created curriculum, trained junction city teachers to implement the curriculum, and worked with the teachers to evaluate the course. The steps to success course successfully reached 160 students working with 6 teachers, receiving positive feedback from students, teachers, and administrators. The positive response resulted in a decision by the school to repeat the course in the next year and work with def to improve the course based on evaluation results.”

“Other program services 4: other program services 5: decision education awareness program: def developed and delivered materials to build awareness of the potential for and benefits of teaching decision skills to young people. Def conducted workshops with teachers, school administrators, companies, and parent groups to demonstrate the teaching of decision skills. Def held numerous meetings with and presentations to the above audience to promote interest in teaching decision skills and worked with educators and decision professionals to garner new ideas and techniques for teaching decision skills. Other program services 6: partner recruiting program: def actively seeks out teachers and school administrators as partners in delivering decision skills instruction to their students, encouraging them, to the extent possible, to help bear the cost of such undertakings.”