Use Remaining Funds to Strengthen Student Resilience Next Year
Before the Fiscal Year Ends, Take a Fresh Look at WhyTry
Whether you’ve used WhyTry before or are exploring it for the first time, this is a timely opportunity to see how the program can help your team improve student motivation, attendance, relationships, resilience, and school culture.
Before the Fiscal Year Ends, Take a Fresh Look at WhyTry
As schools reach the end of the fiscal year, many teams are looking for meaningful ways to use remaining funds to support students and staff going into next school year.
The WhyTry Program gives educators, counselors, social workers, psychologists, behavior teams, and student support staff practical tools they can use to reach students who are disengaged, discouraged, resistant, or struggling with behavior, attendance, motivation, and adversity.
Intervention and Prevention
WhyTry can be used as an intervention when challenges surface in the moment, and as a proactive resource for teaching the resilience skills students need before those challenges escalate.
Through visual metaphors, engaging activities, discussion tools, videos, and ready-to-use lessons, WhyTry helps students understand themselves, build motivation, strengthen relationships, and develop the skills to keep going when life gets hard.
Come see what’s new with WhyTry
For schools that have used WhyTry in the past, this is a great time to come back and see what’s new. For schools exploring WhyTry for the first time, we’d love to show you how the tools can support your existing goals around attendance, behavior, mental health, family engagement, relationship-building, and school culture.
What WhyTry Can Help Support
WhyTry can help schools and districts:
- Re-engage students who are disconnected from school
- Improve attendance and address chronic absenteeism
- Strengthen relationships between students and adults
- Provide practical tools for behavior intervention and student support
- Teach resilience, emotional regulation, motivation, and decision-making
- Equip staff with ready-to-use lessons, videos, and activities
- Support parents and caregivers with practical strategies
- Build a more connected and resilient school culture
Schedule a No-Pressure Conversation
Meet with a WhyTry Program Director for a quick conversation about your school or district’s needs.
There is no pressure and no commitment. We’re simply happy to learn more about the challenges you’re working to address, show you a brief demo of the tools that may be most relevant, and answer your questions about what implementation could look like.
Pick a time on Mike’s calendar that works best for you—no back-and-forth needed.
Success Stories
Lake Chelan School District
Learn how staff, administrators, and students all worked together to improve academic success by combining WhyTry with a peer support network.
Bismarck Public Schools
Learn how Wendy Bakken, a Speech Pathologist at Bismarck High School, uses WhyTry to engage and motivate any student.
Holly Rohrer
Behavior Intervention Specialist, Rudyard Area School District
“We’re a big promoter of PBIS. And because the WhyTry Program has strategies and interventions that align with our goals, we can use it to develop that positive mindset in our students. I feel like they really do combine well together….I think every PBIS school should have some kind of program like this.”
Ashley Wright
Counselor in Houston, TX
“When you can see the purpose of each WhyTry lesson and use the attention grabbers, music, and metaphors to reach the kids with targeted interventions, WhyTry can help you achieve your goals. We saw a significant decrease in the number of referrals.”
Beth Foster
Counselor, Amanda Gist Elementary
“I’m a teacher at heart, and having WhyTry in my toolkit gives me the flexibility to introduce main parts of the program in my guidance classes, and then I can pull in more content as the kids progress through different grades. It works seamlessly for me.”