RelationSkills For Life
RelationSkills For Life
Interest Driven is the Key
Interest Driven is the Key
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The Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club promises, and delivers on, interest-driven fun with friends and experts. Students experience challenges that develop grit, unmatched feelings of being counted on and respected by a team of peers, the chance to get really fired up about something they might want to do in life, and much more. The fruit of all this effort, students’ core assessment scores of Writing, Reading, and Arithmetic soar, opening doors to manifold opportunities, educational and economic among the many. Peek behind the “fun facade” that really is fun and you find what resembles a working newsroom and features division, smartphones now sharing time with cable, news and TV feature content. Walt Disney said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” We modified it to “If you can Dream It, and you are willing to put in the effort, you can Do It!” Where did this approach to learning Writing originate, and what are the top three benefits? We meet weekly for 90 minutes before or after school and one day a week for homeschoolers. We write informational and argumentative five-paragraph content (we never use the word essay, except for just now) that meets every scoring point on the BEST Writing and the FAST Reading assessments, in a process that satisfies all scoring points on the FAST Math assessment. We write powerful character-driven fiction that satisfies writing and reading assessments for visual writing, or painting a picture with words. All works are turned into all digital media forms that social media loves, such as video podcasts, news features, short films—even feature length films, plays, including Readers Theater, and even music and lyrics if students are interested. And we have the opportunity to get paid for use of our content! All writing is done according to templates developed by lifelong journalist-turned-teacher Linda Gaffey and then modified by students after mastery. Quality research is a must, even for historical fiction. The cost is just $19 per month through May, drink and snack included. Club registration is open now, at select Viera/Suntree schools and for homeschoolers. Two Best Original Content awards will be given out at an after-school club kickoff at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 at Viera High School.
Our purpose is to instill mastery of writing, reading, and research through cognitive learning that immediately leads to production, as with any trade school. Ours prepares students to succeed in the U.S. space program or any other field of interest they may discover along the way.
Why be part of “Content Creators Club”?
- Students experience challenges that develop grit, unmatched feelings of being counted on and respected by a team of peers, the chance to get really fired up about something they might want to do in life, and much more.
- Walt Disney said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” We modified it to “If you can Dream It, and you are willing to put in the effort, you can Do It!”
- And we have the opportunity to get paid for use of our content!
- The cost is just $19 per month
- Club registration is open now, at select Viera/Suntree schools and for homeschoolers. Two Best Original Content awards will be given out at an afterschool club kickoff at 5 p.m. Jan 15 at Viera High School.
Dream It! Do It!
Content Creators Club
Dream It! Do It!
Content Creators Club
Content Creators Club
Our purpose is to instill mastery of writing, reading, and research through cognitive learning that immediately leads to production, as with any trade school. Ours prepares students to succeed in the U.S. space program or any other field of interest they may discover along the way.
Why be part of “Content Creators Club”?
- Students experience challenges that develop grit, unmatched feelings of being counted on and respected by a team of peers, the chance to get really fired up about something they might want to do in life, and much more.
- Walt Disney said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” We modified it to “If you can Dream It, and you are willing to put in the effort, you can Do It!”
- And we have the opportunity to get paid for use of our content!
- The cost is just $19 per month
- Club registration is open now, at select Viera/Suntree schools and for homeschoolers. Two Best Original Content awards will be given out at an afterschool club kickoff at 5 p.m. Jan 15 at Viera High School.
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Students Helping Students Thrive harnesses the power of positive peer pressure
Through the club’s outreach effort, Students Helping Students Thrive, young people are reaching out to one another to share positive coping strategies for life’s potential stress, anxiety, and depression. Once upon a time it may have been parents or guardians, teachers, and other trusted adults who held prime sway. As budding young adults, they now look to one another for influence and guidance, good or bad. Even sound research may be rebuffed—unless it is recommended by a peer. Students Helping Students Thrive hopes to be an influence for good, with young people benefiting themselves greatly in the process emotionally, academically and vocationally, as they share their wisdom on social media in the form of original stories, photos, and videos produced from their written works to help still others.
Through the club’s outreach effort, Students Helping Students Thrive, young people are reaching out to one another to share positive coping strategies for life’s potential stress, anxiety, and depression. Once upon a time it may have been parents or guardians, teachers, and other trusted adults who held prime sway. As budding young adults, they now look to one another for influence and guidance, good or bad. Even sound research may be rebuffed—unless it is recommended by a peer. Students Helping Students Thrive hopes to be an influence for good, with young people benefiting themselves greatly in the process emotionally, academically and vocationally, as they share their wisdom on social media in the form of original stories, photos, and videos produced from their written works to help still others.
Three Main Benefits
Three Main Benefits
Club members may choose to create content for the interest-driven Students Helping Students Thrive and benefit emotionally, academically, and vocationally through their participation. SHS use of the Club’s signature Topic 1-2-3 PEACE format for nonfiction started at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when panic and isolation pushed students into another epidemic, a worldwide emotional health crisis, according to a 2023 report by Harvard Graduate School of Education. Students used smartphones and game controllers as pacifiers for three years until being fully able to rejoin society—with a stunted ability to cope with normal student life as a result. Dream It, Do It! curriculum author and certified writing, reading, and research teacher Linda Gaffey is a lifelong journalist. She began teaching as an encore career, giving back to young people as she herself was once inspired to write professionally, as a young adult.
Benefit One, Emotional
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Emotional:
Researching and creating content can give students the chance to learn to regulate their emotions and share with peers the skills they have learned. Students Helping Students taps the primary human drive to help others overcome battles they themselves have successfully mastered. Sharing with others, another word for teaching, solidifies that mastery. Students may do research to find - MORE
Researching and creating content can give students the chance to learn to regulate their emotions and share with peers the skills they have learned. Students Helping Students taps the primary human drive to help others overcome battles they themselves have successfully mastered. Sharing with others, another word for teaching, solidifies that mastery. Students may do research to find - MORE
Benefit Two, Academic
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Academic:
Student use of the program’s Topic 1-2-3 PEACE format to learn informative and argumentative writing styles has anecdotally increased participant state BEST Writing assessment scores as much as 1.5 points in one year on a scale of 1-5, with the lowest being 1, grade level at 3, and the highest score a 5. The research component binds with the writing process to also increase scores MORE
Student use of the program’s Topic 1-2-3 PEACE format to learn informative and argumentative writing styles has anecdotally increased participant state BEST Writing assessment scores as much as 1.5 points in one year on a scale of 1-5, with the lowest being 1, grade level at 3, and the highest score a 5. The research component binds with the writing process to also increase scores MORE
Benefit Three, Vocational
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Vocational:
An award-winning journalist, Mrs. Gaffey discovered while teaching in public schools that the assessment for writing, once known as FCAT, then FSA, now BEST Writing, uses a rubric based on the newspaper feature format. The GED uses this rubric also. By reverse-engineering this rubric, the resulting template, or pattern, of Topic 1-2-3 PEACE makes sure students include every element required to earn the top score, MORE
An award-winning journalist, Mrs. Gaffey discovered while teaching in public schools that the assessment for writing, once known as FCAT, then FSA, now BEST Writing, uses a rubric based on the newspaper feature format. The GED uses this rubric also. By reverse-engineering this rubric, the resulting template, or pattern, of Topic 1-2-3 PEACE makes sure students include every element required to earn the top score, MORE
Note: We hope you enjoyed the Topic 1-2-3 PEACE format that was used to write this informational appeal letter, and “stretched” to create a website. Once students use the format enough times to memorize it, they can use it to “write anything and everything...yes, even that thing,” with some simple adjustments to to the format. Students will never again sit down to a writing assessment, a project description, or even a federal contract proposal and not know what to write and how. Also proprietary, Mrs. Gaffey’s 7-point Plot for Fiction: from the Page to the Stage and Screen is incredibly effective at raising ELA scores because vivid writing is highly prized for both ELA and Reading assessments, as well as by potential fans of engaging fiction writing. Learning to write fiction is the best way to understand what it takes to create and appreciate great literature, as well as the importance of story and character development. Fiction with engaging, strong characters who grow by making heroic choices promotes good ethics. Reading is one of the top activities that students list to reduce stress, and the nonfiction and fiction that the students produce become opportunities for micro-learning for both writers and readers, rather than using screen time for doom scrolling, gaming, and recording dance videos.
Could our enlightened emerging adults be coming to save us all?
Could our enlightened emerging adults be coming to save us all?
Sharing the Curriculum
Sharing the Curriculum
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Mrs. Gaffey will also continue to provide the Students Helping Students program for students of the public schools where the program was founded, known to students as the Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club. She will use this opportunity to help local and state elected officials draft legislation to bring this way of teaching writing and entrepreneurial skills into all 67 counties served by the Florida Department of Education. We are also already in talks with schools in grades 4 through post-doctorate level, legislators, and corporate leaders to bring this intervention to the states of Michigan/Detroit, Nevada/Las Vegas, and California/Sacramento through a new consortium of states’ best practices.
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IMMEDIATE NEED
IMMEDIATE NEED
Our most immediate need is to engage two Florida Institute of Technology doctorate students to begin researching what it is about Students Helping Students Thrive that has low- and high-achieving students alike score unimaginable gains in standardized assessments in grades 4 and up. The FIT students will create a Measuring Instrument so that we can report our results back to funders measuring the difference their investment in the SHS program makes in the lives of young people. A third FIT rising-senior recently returned from the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico on a Research Experience for the Undergrad (REU), at the research powerhouse University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. In the coming years, students will help establish Students Helping Students chapters at FIT and UPR to extend our K-12 reach to pre- and post-graduate and doctorate students. This creates a space and economic trade-school-continuum capable of bringing students’ ideas for products and services into fruition through professional paid product research, creating the best items for posting on students’ own Substack sites to generate revenue. Students Helping Students will combat the slide in scores that reflect literacy and employment skill levels that continue to plummet and limit opportunities for all young adults to prosper. SHS will turn the tide for young writers, producers, creators and the top jobs that need them, and job-providing entrepreneurs in the founding state of Florida, and well beyond.
Your donations will help us train and film student “actor” club members and volunteers as they learn and interact as we teach and produce everything the English Language Arts teacher needs to:
1. Stream the video.
2. Pause the video.
3. Encourage interaction.
4. Start the learning activity.
The program is packaged in a 90-minute segment for block education, and easily paused after 45 minutes for traditional-length classes.
This will fulfill all of the ELA Standards, and enough of the Reading Standards to boost those scores as well. Literacy standards are similar, if not identical, in many to most states. E-box streaming sets will be available to teachers upon completion for grades 4-12 as part of their ELA-Reading-Research focus, leaving a remaining 135 minutes per week to focus on grammar skills and complete student Content Creation projects.
1. Stream the video.
2. Pause the video.
3. Encourage interaction.
4. Start the learning activity.
The program is packaged in a 90-minute segment for block education, and easily paused after 45 minutes for traditional-length classes.
This will fulfill all of the ELA Standards, and enough of the Reading Standards to boost those scores as well. Literacy standards are similar, if not identical, in many to most states. E-box streaming sets will be available to teachers upon completion for grades 4-12 as part of their ELA-Reading-Research focus, leaving a remaining 135 minutes per week to focus on grammar skills and complete student Content Creation projects.
Local
Research
Projects
Local
Research
Projects
Research
Projects
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These FIT students and their world class expert mentor will then teach rising FIT rising-seniors in June 2026 during their Research Experience for the Undergrad how to create the perfect Measuring Instrument for any project requiring funding, which will take place at the world research hub, the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. Our SHS team will teach Topic 1-2-3 PEACE: How to Write About Everything and Anything (Yes, Even That Thing). “That Thing” in this instance is three things vital to successful professional research: 1) articles published in medical journals, 2) proposals for funding to do the research of one’s passion, and 3) reports back to funders on the measured results their investment has provided. This SHS outreach will include popular Drama Coach Jonathan McFadden to bring young people out of their shells and get them fully committed to their art and craft, and filmmakers to provide technical and artistic skills to take the story from the page to the stage and film. The Puerto Rico workshop will provide the clips for the college-age student E-box video streaming.
TOTAL NEEDED
TOTAL NEEDED
The total needed to begin researching why Dream It, Do It!/Students Helping Students is so effective at increasing scores, starting with the development of the Measuring Instrument for reporting results back to funders, is $68,423. Of this, stipends of $6,000 will be payable directly to the two research students and two additional researchers to develop products and services by students already underway, such as using plants and marine life to oxygenate and clean nutrients from residential lakes that empty into the Indian River Lagoon, and a product researcher that will ultimately develop food products and practices to colonize Mars during the lifetime of the US Artemis space program. Whether earthly or celestial, all research and educational efforts are part of Artemis Academy, the school-facing identity of RelationSkills for Life’s Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club. We remember that we share a local community goal and national identity of being America First in Space, with all the responsibilities and benefits that entails.
Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club excites student writers
Viera/Suntree, Florida author and educator Linda Gaffey presented her nonprofit RelationSkills for Life mission to Suntree Rotary members Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. Presented to students in grades 4-12 as the fast and fun Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club after school, they learn a proprietary template to create informative and argumentative original works that they turn into video podcasts and other social media content. Mrs. Gaffey's 7-Point Plot for Moving Fiction from the Page to the Stage and Screen teaches students to learn great literature by creating their own rich original stories that are turned into works for the stage and screen.
Do you want to watch a life or live a great one?
Do you want to watch a life or live a great one?
Students perform an original work at Readers Theater play
Students in Mrs. Gaffey's seventh-grade English class at Viera Charter School perform an original Readers Theater work of a fifth-grader from Mrs. Gaffey's Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club.
Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club excites student writers
Viera/Suntree, Florida author and educator Linda Gaffey presented her nonprofit RelationSkills for Life mission to Suntree Rotary members Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. Presented to students in grades 4-12 as the fast and fun Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club after school, they learn a proprietary template to create informative and argumentative original works that they turn into video podcasts and other social media content. Mrs. Gaffey's 7-Point Plot for Moving Fiction from the Page to the Stage and Screen teaches students to learn great literature by creating their own rich original stories that are turned into works for the stage and screen.
Do you want to watch a life or live a great one?
Do you want to watch a life or live a great one?
Students perform an original work at Readers Theater play
Students in Mrs. Gaffey's seventh-grade English class at Viera Charter School perform an original Readers Theater work of a fifth-grader from Mrs. Gaffey's Dream It, Do It! Content Creators Club.
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Content Creators Club
Contact: Linda Gaffey
Content Creators Club
Contact: Linda Gaffey
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