What:

Six Bouncy music videos and audio clips

Six sing-along videos with lyric captions feature Bouncy and his squad of buddies, using catchy tunes, repetition and simple fun to model and develop agency and self-regulation (strong and calm).

Why:

To maximize the value of music, repetition and consistency in teaching key SEL skills to develop agency and self-regulation.

What:

Bouncy’s You Can Learn App

5 interactive skill training lessons.

Why:

To develop children’s self-efficacy about learning through self-directed, interactive training in growth mindset habits (caring, believing, trying hard, persevering), using a variety of instructional forms so each child can find one that they like.

What:

Born to Shine and Bouncy and the Magic Vest interactive books apps

Why:

These gorgeously illustrated books apps have full narration and fun interactivity that promotes deep learning. Motivates children’s commitment to effort and perseverance in developing agency and self-regulation.

What:

Video-based PD

Training videos model how to integrate Bouncy into teaching, at school, online and hybrid combination

Why:

To lighten the burden of becoming familiar with a new program, and provide a way to meet distance learning requirements with less effort.

Ripple Effects also offers live and online training and coaching as needed to ensure successful implementation.

What:

Powerpoint Slideshows

Why:

PowerPoint slideshows build on students’ relationship with Bouncy to promote agency and teach kids about service dogs and healthy mask-wearing.

What:

Support PDFs and Teacher Templates

Support PDFs include powerpoint templates, letters home and pdf printout templates.

What:

Little Bouncy personal size plush service dog.

Includes prosthetic, vest and grooming tools, but not sounds or animatronics.

Home kit, (additional cost) includes mini care kit for Little Bouncy, including adoption certificates and matching masks for Bouncy and child.

Why:

To make personal support available when animatronic is being used by other students or teacher (or has not been purchased).

What:

Breathing Bouncy care accessories

Includes service vest, safety mask, dog blanket, feeding dish and grooming comb.

Why:

To promote co-regulation, responsibility.

What:

Born to Shine and Bouncy and the Magic Vest print books

Why:

Beautifully illustrated print version of Bouncy Born to Shine and Bouncy and the Magic Vest

What:

Bouncy’s Different Leg coloring book (Print, PDF)

Answers the most frequently asked question about Bouncy: Why does he have that different leg?

Why:

To increase understanding of how differences, including disabilities signified by prosthetics like Bouncy’s, can be a source of strength and pride.

What:

Bouncy’s Ready to Learn Resilience Teacher’s Guide (Print, PDF)

A complete “cookbook” of recipes for maximizing value from all the elements in the Bouncy system.

Why:

To enrich, scaffold and support teaching with Bouncy, without restricting it or limiting personal creativity.

What:

Bouncy’s Buddies trading cards (Print, PDF)

Two sets of cards, featuring 12 diverse kids with different favorite activities, ethnicities, and abilities.

Why:

To develop appreciation of diversity, and deepen awareness of a community where each child belongs – and have fun doing it.

What:

Bouncy Power Phrase Mini-Posters

Why:

Repetition and consistency are key elements in ensuring that social-emotional skill training doesn't evaporate when children are no longer directly exposed to it. The Bouncy Power Phrase Mini-Posters repeat key messages from the training, use characters kids already associate with those messages, including both Bouncy and his buddies, and provide a reminder at home for students to use the target skills to de-stress when challenges come up.

What:

Junior Journal (Print, PDF)

Available in print and PDF versions.

Why:

To provide opportunities and scaffolding for kids to reflect on and express their own experience of the things Bouncy is teaching.

What:

Bouncy’s Home Activity Guide (Print, PDF)

Why:

Provides caretakers with fun extension activities matched to each theme in the curriculum, along with a simple explanation of “Why teach this?”

What:

Bouncy Sticker

Why:

A perennial favorite with young learners.

What:

Breathing Bouncy Animatronic

Provides sensory cues (audio and kinesthetic) along with coaching, to help children succeed quickly at calming themselves by regulating breath.

Why:

The part of the brain that’s active in a reactive stress mode, and the part that’s active in slow, calm breathing mode, don’t operate at the same time. When the brain is in its calm relaxed mode, stress reactive behavior ceases, children settle and become ready to learn.