Educators: Go For It! Foundation™
For over 20 years, Zerafa has taken the fruit of her findings to education. Her Go For It! Foundation™ (www.goforitfoundation.org) has motivated more than 30,000 teachers, 225,000 students, and 268 school districts across the U.S. to become their best in Michigan, California, Virginia, West Virginia, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Wisconsin, and District of Columbia. In Colorado, Judy has inspired thousands of parents, students and teachers in six school districts.
Private business or family foundations are impressed with Judy's work in education over the last 25 years. Often, they will provide funding for the Go For It! Foundation™ for teachers and students in a specific school or school district. This creates a transformation within the school culture and has immediate positive effects on academics, morale, and behavior referrals reduce by as much as 50%.
The Go For It! Foundation™ was created to offer educational programs in the Seven Keys to Success, including a 32 hour certification program with CE credits for classroom educators. Details of this class, Motivating Students to Succeed, and registration information is available at the Foundation website (www.goforitfoundation.org). Many teachers who take this course are funded through a scholarship program. Contact the Foundation to sponsor a school, to sponsor a teacher or to contribute to a general scholarship fund.
One teacher who recently completed the course expressed her enthusiasm for the efficacy of the training telling Zerafa: “This is the first time I’ve felt hope in more than a decade. This is changing our school and me.”
“Go For It! is the missing link in education,” states Frank Gonzales, now Principal of Kepner Middle School, Denver, CO. “The program was one of the factors I can point to when we brought the CSAP scores up 11 points in one year during my tenure at Castro Elementary School.”
