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NED leads Century kids on 'mindset mission'
The NED Show came to Century Elementary School on Aug. 19. Representing the program on behalf of All for KIDZ, Inc. was traveling performer Haley Brown of California. She used humor, yo-yo and magic tricks, puppetry and storytelling to engage chi...
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Children react to the magic and humor of the NED Show. NED stands for "Never give up - Encourage others - Do your best."
The NED Show came to Century Elementary School on Aug. 19.
Representing the program on behalf of All for KIDZ, Inc. was traveling performer Haley Brown of California. She used humor, yo-yo and magic tricks, puppetry and storytelling to engage children from kindergarten to grade 4 in NED's "Mindset Mission."
NED, a cartoon boy known for his upswept hairdo and devotion to his yo-yo, is the central character of a program "promoting academic achievement through character development" in school assemblies since 1989 throughout the U.S. and the English-speaking world.
Issues addressed by NED assemblies include school-wide behavior, bullying and testing preparation. The program also provides materials for home and classroom use.
Brown said the program offers multiple assemblies.
"There's the original NED Show," she said. "NED's Kindness Adventure came out two years ago, and NED's Mindset Mission just came out this year. Mindset Mission is kind of NED 2.0. It builds off of the NED message of 'Never give up - Encourage others - Do your best.' That's on the growth mindset; whereas the Kindness Adventure is a completely different show."
During the assembly, Brown kept the kids entranced with funny gags and eye-popping tricks, while describing NED's journey to the top of Mount Everest, a Caribbean island and outer space. Along the way, NED mingled with a Yeti, a pirate and a shipful of aliens, learning such skills as adding "yet" to any statement beginning with "I can't."
Brown said she enjoys watching children's reactions to the NED Show. "I could spend the rest of my life watching kids watch that show," she said.
Although Century School paid for the NED Show assembly, Brown noted that the company's "Pay It Forward" program makes it available to schools unable to pay. An All for KIDZ news release said 99 percent of the schools that NED visits use "Pay It Forward."
"I bring boxes of yo-yos with me," she explained, "and they make the yo-yos available to students for 15 minutes a day, five days after the show. If kids want to buy a yo-yo, they can; if not, no big deal. There's no required minimum that they have to say; it's just to make them available, and whatever they make allows us to go to the next school and to the next school. Because of that, we go to a lot of schools that don't normally have assemblies - schools that are just too small, poor districts, things like that."
Last week, she said, she did an assembly at a school that had 58 students. "They don't get to have assemblies like this very often," said Brown. "Then we come to do these big ones, and it's so much fun, because the kids are awesome."
Brown told the Century students that, leading to a back-and-forth cheer of "No, you're awesome!"
For more information about the NED Show, visit www.theNEDshow.com or call 877-872-9696.
Source: https://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/news/4504875-ned-leads-century-kids-mindset-mission
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