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All Youth

CLAY’s unique youth-friendly curriculum engages students through music, journaling, and consistent mentorship, instilling leadership values through an interactive experience that allows students to absorb and apply simple truths. In addition, family team building and intentional leadership seminars equip parents to take an active role in the lives of their children and engage them with their school administration.

Teacher's
Guide

Powerpoint &
Keynote Presentation

The Keynote and Powerpoint presentations provided with each volume of CLAY go hand in hand with the lessons in the Teacher’s guide and provide the students with an interactive experience through engaging graphics and music. They are a very effective teaching tool.

Student
Handouts

Is a printed form which students must fill out during each class. This allows the students to express their own ideas. The handouts correlate to the content in the Teacher's Guide and the Powerpoint and Keynote presentations, providing the student with a full interactive experience.

Parent
University

Leadership-training seminars and team-building activities designed to engage parents with their child as well as with the school administration
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about the clay program

This collection of videos show the CLAY program in action. Learn about the impact of the CLAY program from teachers, educators and students. Watch a few examples of how a CLAY class is taught

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Our team

Abel Lopez
Abel Lopez

President and founder...

Mary Lopez
Mary Lopez

Dallas CLAY coordinator....

Ann Strassner
Ann Strassner

CLAY's office manager,...

Nathan Lopez
Nathan Lopez

Dallas CLAY coordinator....

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What We Do

About The CLAY Student Leadership Program

CLAY Student Leadership is a program designed to positively transform the lives of students and parents in at-risk communities through holistic and relevant leadership training.

CLAY Student Leadership Program Results

Participation in CLAY Student Leadership programs produces the following results in students:Improved academic performance, Goal-oriented life planning, Increased sense of purpose and self-worth, A shift in attitude and behavior and Increased sense of support from family and school

Population That CLAY Serves: All Youth

CLAY serves students from various backgrounds and achievement levels. CLAY’s program model has proven to decrease the maladaptive behaviors of “at-risk” students and increase the effectiveness of “at-promise” students.

CLAY Student Leadership 6-year & R3 Curriculum

CLAY Six-Year Curriculum is designed to provide leadership and life-skills training for students and their families from 3rd grade and on. CLAY R3 Accelerated Curriculum is Targeted toward students most at-risk of dropping-out it restores students’ drive to live, succeed, and fulfill their life purpose.
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Garland Richardson ISD

In 2013, a survey conducted of teachers and students at Northlake Elementary in Garland Texas, showed that CLAY helped 88% of students reach their academic goals and improve their grades....

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Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD

When CLAY was implemented in the Farmers Branch School District  the grades  of students in schools that participated in the CLAY program where on average 8% to 10% better than the grades of students in schools that did not participate in the CLAY program....

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Dallas ISD

CLAY was implemented in the in school suspension program. Repeat offenders went down by 81%....

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Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD

In the 2010-2011 school year, 90% of parents who participated in CLAY’s Parent University programming in the Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD reported marked improvement in their family life in areas such as: family relationships, leadership skills, and self-esteem....

[The CLAY program] really had the students reflect on where they were and where they were going and looking at the choices they were making accepting responsibility for the choices...
- Kimberly Gunn / Assistant Principal Creekview High School
… the seed that he planted in me while a CLAY class was going on at school, even though I wasn’t paying attention, something in me was paying attention and...
- Eddie Urrutia / former CLAY Student
… after I took the classes, it just helped me so much in school my grades instead of being A’s and B’s they became all A’s....
- Herson Iglesias / 9th Grade Creekview High School

 

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CLAY in action
Videos
CLAY Event 5

This picture was taken during a CLAY event....

CLAY Event 5
CLAY Event 3

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CLAY Event 3
CLAY event 2

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CLAY event 2
CLAY Event 4

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CLAY Event 4
CLAY event

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CLAY event
CLAY 6

This picture was taken during a CLAY event....

CLAY 6

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CONTACTS

    Address:  17150 Butte Creek Rd, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77090 / 1038 S. Elm Street Suite 5 Carrollton Texas 75006
    281-537-0601