Educational Projects

Solving Problems, Adding Value, Implementating Ideas

“...his ideas, contacts, resources and positive energy get things moving, stuff happening, and people having fun with purpose and direction.”

Bud Lewis, Director of Greek Life and Wellness Programs Wilmington College, Ohio

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“Your enthusiasm is contagious and has sparked us to create a broader vision as to how we can strengthen leaders in Ohio. You expertly guided us through the roadblocks.”

Beth Flynn, Program Specialist Ohio State University Leadership Center

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1-Day Leadership Program for College + High Schools

“Students acquired a foundation on which to build and shape their ideas for the best way to implement a leadership program.”

Anita Williams, Principal Winton Woods High School

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Annual Planning Process Redesign

Bring to life your next annual planning process or strategic planning initiative with Fran Kick’s unique Napkinology™ approach. Engage everyone within your organization utilizing this fun, non-threatening, constructive, and creative brainstorming methodology that brings people and their ideas together to make things better. Proven to work with associations, companies, and nonprofit organizations who want to create a prioritized next-step list of smarter ideas.

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1-Day Student Leadership Conference

Every year from 1999 to 2013, Fran Kick helped KICK-off this unique collaborative event with 8th-10th grade students from across the Cincinnati Metropolitan Region with Great Oaks, one of the largest career and technical education districts in the United States.

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1-Day Teacher/Educator Conferences

In 2008 and 2009, the North American Simulation and Gaming Association presented a one-day Teacher/Educator program at their annual conference. Fran coordinated with each State Department of Education to secure professional development C.E.U. credits for participating teachers. Lined up clinicians, scheduled the program, provided promotional flyers and web site support. In addition, follow-up handout materials and evaluations were created and sent to all teachers following the program.

NASAGA: North American Simulation and Gaming Association

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1-Day Action Team Leader Training

Volunteers of America, the Major League Baseball Players Trust, and the Cincinnati Reds created an Action Team to encourage high school students to get involved in their communities and help those in need. Action Teams, composed of Major League baseball players and area high school students who are selected as Team Captains, work together to deliver an important message to students that volunteering is cool, fun and personally rewarding. Nationwide more than 14,000 high school volunteers have helped over 60,000 people in their communities. Fran Kick was asked to create and deliver the Team Captain Orientation in 2008, Presenting Yourself as a Leader.

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1-Day Student Leadership Retreats

Originally created in 1994, this one-day, 12-hour, non-stop experiential leadership adventure was developed with Frank Crockett, a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and member of the Association for Experiential Education (AEE). Bringing Fran’s high-energy presentations together with Frank’s high-level ropes course experiences, the program integrated leadership and team building theory for student leaders.

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MegaCamp

Developed largely as an expansion of the KICK IT IN & HIT THE ROPES program, this week long program incorporated additional study skills, superior learning strategies, adventure challenges and reflective goal setting journeys. MegaCamp was designed for 13-17 year old students in junior high, middle, and high school from across the Midwest.

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2-Day Leadership Academy

The first Business Professionals of America National Leadership Academy was created for BPA in 2004 as a two-day college/high school student leadership program. In 2005, we added a junior high/middle school student leadership program. The BPA Leadership Academy continued fifteen consecutive years from 2004-2018 as the premier, interactively engaging, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary leadership learning experience for business education students.

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Weekend + Week Leadership Camp

Fran has worked with this not-for-profit youth focused organization since 1990 as both a speaker/clinician and a consultant. In 1998-99 his efforts focused on developing the Leadership Weekend Experience and culminated in coordinating schedule, staff, curriculum and overall design for 500-700 student participants from across the U.S. for this weekend event. He also created a week long series of leadership sessions for the camp.

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TeenTalk on Fox 45-TV

Created as a half-hour after-school special television show, Fran worked as host and served as one of the co-producers. The project involved extensive on-the-street, in-the-schools and at-the-mall interviews as well as in-studio small group discussions. In addition to the show, six discussion starter videos were developed as ten-minute openers for KICKing off small group dialogue on subjects such as: parents, teachers, family, friends, TV and the media.

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Behavioral Modification Pilot Project

In 2008, Fran Kick was approached to develop a simple middle school behavioral modification pilot program to help focus attention on the positive things happening in school and nurture more intrinsic or self-motivation within students.

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YMCA Mentors Matter Program

The YMCA of Greater Dayton wanted to KICK off their Teens in Action Mentors Matter program with an interactive presentation that would help “plant the seeds” for the entire summer series—for both adult mentors and teens. Adult mentors worked with participating teens ages 12 to 17 years old sharing golf lessons + life lessons once a week all summer long.

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City of Kettering Town Hall Meeting

The City of Kettering Parks & Recreation Administration in cooperation with the Kettering Youth Council retained Fran to facilitate a Town Hall Meeting. In addition to designing the meeting format and activities, Fran prepared a report to document the process and the ideas collected.

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University of Scouting

In 2010, Fran Kick with Cub Scout Pack 148 created “The Patch You Don’t Need For Doing A Good Deed” and shared it in 2011 with the Miami Valley Council’s University of Scouting Keynote “KICK IT IN Scouting!”

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Optimist International

Fran Kick created a series of university campus presentations across the state of Ohio to reach more college students and to build attendance for a statewide conference. In addition, he presented a multi-generational inspiringly interactive keynote at the Optimist International Convention.

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Cincinnati Public Schools

CPS wanted to host an event for every eighth-grade student who attended any of the thirty K-8 schools in the district. This program served as a culminating experience for the 2008-09 Ninth-Grade Application Period, when each student selects which high school they wish to attend. The goal was to help eighth-graders take what they learned about careers and connect them to one of the Career-Technical Pathways offered in any one of the district’s seventeen high schools.

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Good Life Award Writing Contest

The Washington-Centerville Public Library approached Fran to speak at their annual Good Life Award Ceremony and consult in the creation of a full-page newspaper kidsINK activity page. Fran also created a series of classroom activities for teachers to use in conjunction with this writing contest.

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Washington-Centerville Public Library

Fran Kick was the narrator for the library’s 2011 informational video Your Library: The Key to it All! Two 20-minute versions of the video were created: one for broadcast on television in October of 2011 and one for distribution via YouTube.

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Break Ranks! Podcast Episodes

Break Ranks! was a season-long podcast series for the marching band activity launched in 2005 with Bands of America. Created by Edward R. Murrow National Award-Winning News Broadcaster Dan Potter, Fran Kick wrote and recorded 6 short season-specific segments for use during this weekly podcast.

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Kick Start Your Season with DCI

Fran Kick created and delivered an 8-year summer series of pre-concert, stadium-sized, leadership, team-building events across the U.S. Presenting 48 programs in 15 different collegiate and NFL stadiums including: Lucas Oil Stadium, the Alamodome, the Georgia Dome, and Detroit’s Ford Field with 500 to 5,000 students attending each program.

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Attitude Concepts for Today

Fran Kick created and presented a series of middle school student leadership workshops with “Dr. Tim” Lautzenheiser from 1992-1997. These developmentally appropriate middle school student leadership workshops were presented alongside selected high school student leadership workshops Tim presented across the U.S.

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Future Music Educators’ Experience

Fran Kick produced and coordinated this biannual collaboration with 9 national performing arts associations. Bringing thousands of undergraduate and graduate level college students majoring in music education from over 200+ universities to Indianapolis every August and November from 2009-2023.

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FRAN KICK, M.A. Educational Psychology, CSP, is an author, professional speaker, and consulting advisor to various people, organizations, and companies. He helps organizations as well as individuals see things differently so they can solve problems, collaboratively create solutions, and engage more people in the process of “making things happen.”

“Your wonderful insights and suggestions helped move us forward light years in our thinking.”

Garee Earnest, Ph.D.
The Ohio State Leadership Center

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