A Homeschool Assembly is a world-wide video broadcast event that is free for home educators and schools to participate in. This is the first event of its kind and we are thrilled to bring quality Social/Emotional Learning Instruction into millions of homes during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
There are three simple steps to participate:

1. Register your home/school to participate in the Homeschool Assembly.
2. Receive instant access to the Homeschool Assembly video, parent/educator training video, and additional resources.
3. Show your students the Homeschool Assembly video and send your parents/educators to our website to access their training video.

In this school assembly presentation, Brooks Gibbs teaches students the three reasons why people are mean. These include:

• Joking
• Hurting
• Bothering

His foundational advice for dealing with most non-criminal aggressions is:

• Don’t get upset (Emotional Resilience)
• Treat them like a friend (The Golden Rule)

Most youth aggression is non-criminal and consists of name calling, social exclusion, rumors, etc. These behaviors are inevitable between siblings at home and peers at school. Despite the pettiness of these behaviors, they can do tremendous emotional harm to a student. Brooks teaches students how to protect their emotions from the effects of these behaviors through emotional resilience.

He also communicates the genius of The Golden Rule. This social instruction teaches students how to make friends and also manage their perceived enemies. The Golden Rule takes advantage of the law of reciprocity, and as students learn to treat others as friends, this positive behavior becomes the social norm.

This 35 minute high-energy keynote is full of excellent information and can be applied to any non-criminal aggression at home, on campus, or online. Brooks, of course, encourages students to seek adult intervention when they feel like they are in danger or cannot handle the aggression on their own.