40 to 45 minutes
Sized on purpose to fit inside a bell schedule, so it costs you one period and does not eat into the rest of the morning.
Character Building Assembly
The Power of Positive Choices
Honesty, respect and responsibility, landed at the moment a child realizes the choice was theirs to make.
What This Assembly Is
Children already know the rules. Knowing is not the problem.
Every school teaches honesty and respect. By fourth grade a child can recite it back to you word for word and still take the shortcut. The gap is not knowledge, it is the moment of choosing, and a lecture has never once closed it.
So this show does not tell them what is right. It puts them in the moment. A trick where the easy option and the honest option pull in opposite directions, with three hundred children watching and every one of them working out what they would do.
They laugh the whole way through. That is deliberate. A child who is laughing is not defending themselves, and a child who is not defending themselves is actually listening.
What Students Take Away
The part that outlasts the assembly
- The value of honesty and integrity, shown rather than announced
- Respect for themselves and for other people
- Taking responsibility for what they choose to do
- That a choice made when nobody is watching is still a choice
Included, no extra charge
A teacher guide for The Power of Positive Choices
Every school that books this assembly gets a printable teacher guide written to go with it. Discussion questions, follow-up activities and a one-page take-home, so the message does not stop when the gym empties.
That is the difference between an assembly and an hour off. Your teachers can carry it into the classroom the same week, which is also what makes the time easy to justify.
“We loved having Mr. Baker at our school program. His magic show was astounding, age appropriate, silly, and entertaining. Our students were engaged and impressed!”
Colonial Hills SchoolWorthington City Schools
“The kids thoroughly enjoyed it and had a wonderful time.”
A teacherSt Agatha School
How It Works In Your Building
Almost nothing is asked of you
Every assembly runs the same way. This is the part that usually decides whether a principal says yes, so here it is plainly.
Your whole school at once
One class or the entire student body. Larger schools split into two shows back to back so every child gets a good view rather than squinting from the back.
A room and one outlet
A gym, cafeteria, stage or multipurpose room, one standard electrical outlet, and about thirty minutes to get in early. That is the whole list.
No staff, no equipment
Nobody on your team has to run anything, carry anything or stay late. I set up, I perform, I clear out.
I bring my own sound
Professional sound system and microphone. In an echoing gym this is the thing that decides whether the back three rows hear a word, and it is where most performers come unstuck.
Pitched at the room
Built for elementary and adjusted on the day for the ages actually in front of me. A room of kindergarteners and a room of sixth graders want completely different things.
Check Your Date
Tell me about your school
Your date, your grades and roughly how many students. I will come straight back with whether I am free and what it costs. Most schools hear back the same day. Spring dates go earliest, so it is worth asking sooner rather than later.
Would you rather talk it through? Call or text 614-800-8909.