Voice & Identity
Mic Check
Mic Check is a dynamic public speaking and performance program that helps students find their voice, tell their story, and move an audience with confidence and purpose. Through storytelling, speech development, spoken word, live performance, and audience engagement, students learn how to organize their ideas, communicate effectively, and confidently express their unique perspectives in front of others.
Find Your Voice. Tell Your Story. Move The Crowd.
Grades K-12
Mic Check transforms K-12 students from passive learners into powerful public speakers, communicators, and leaders, so every student can Find Their Voice. Tell Their Story. Move The Crowd.
Student learning
What Students Will Do
Students learn by doing through hands-on activities, creative projects, collaboration, and real-world experiences designed to build skills, confidence, and meaningful connections to the program’s focus.
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Public speaking, storytelling, and effective communication
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Speech development, organization, and message structure
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Voice projection, pacing, rhythm, pauses, and vocal expression
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Eye contact, body language, confidence, and stage presence
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Audience engagement and techniques for capturing and maintaining attention
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Writing, rehearsing, and delivering an original story, speech, or spoken word performance
Real-world application
Prepares students with communication and presentation skills essential for success in school, college, careers, entrepreneurship, leadership, and everyday life. Students gain practical experience developing ideas, presenting their perspectives, speaking in front of live audiences, and communicating with confidence and purpose, skills that translate to classroom presentations, interviews, pitches, performances, meetings, advocacy, content creation, and virtually every professional environment.
How it runs
Program Specifications
Grades, delivery formats, and the pathways this program feeds: everything needed to check it against a master calendar.
- Grade range
- Grades K-12
- Category
- Voice & Identity
- Delivery formats
- In-SchoolDuring the instructional day. Pathway programming embedded in electives, advisory, or dedicated blocks.
- AfterschoolAfter dismissal. Sustained weekly sessions that build toward a finished body of work.
- Career DaysSingle-day events. Industry professionals and hands-on stations brought to campus.
- Creative pathways
- PodcastMediaPerformance
Student outcomes
What The School Gets Back
Every program is designed backwards from its finish. These are the things that exist at the end of it.
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Increased confidence speaking in front of live audiences
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Stronger verbal communication and presentation skills
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Improved ability to organize and articulate ideas clearly
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Greater self-expression, personal storytelling, and student voice
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Increased leadership, interpersonal, and audience engagement skills
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Real-world experience preparing and delivering a live public performance
Related pathways
Where This Program Leads
Programs are how a pathway gets taught. These are the disciplines and career routes this one opens up.
Bring This Program to Your School
Tell us the grades, the block in the schedule, and the number of students you have in mind. We will come back with what Mic Check looks like on your campus.