What's Up With Guns comes with pre-program and post-program Assessment Surveys and Teacher's Companion piece for further classroom discussion on violence prevention among youth. These are applied in the following phases:

1. Teachers administer a confidential 16 question self survey the day before the assembly. This survey is designed to measure students understanding of youth violence. Question design follows the California Safe Schools Assessment published by the California Department of Education, Sacramento.
2. Teachers and students participate in What’s Up With Guns.
3. Directly following the assembly, teachers lead their classes in an open and honest discussion about the Choices, Decisions and Consequences of the teens in What’s Up With Guns. The discussion focuses on how the students can apply this critical thinking to their own real-life situations at home, in neighborhoods and at school.
4. Lastly, Teachers that administered the pre-survey administer a five-question post-survey.

The Teacher's Companion provides a summary of discussion points, followed by key concepts that are specific to the events in What's Up With Guns. Students are encouraged to think about how each person involved could have done something different to prevent the violent and tragic outcome of Marcus' death and Jason's imprisonment.

Discussion Summary:

• We want to generate an open and honest discussion with your students about What's Up With Guns.
• We want to focus on the question, "What if this happened to you?" NOT, "How I would avoid getting caught." Stay focused on WHAT IF?
• We want to substitute something your students would value like money or a car, etc. (e.g., something your students can identify with other than a fight over a girl like the situation in What's Up With Guns).
• We want to brainstorm what could have been going on in these students life that helped create the situation.
• We want to brainstorm what these students could have done differently to save a life.
• Ask your students what your school can do to make it safe for students to come forward to get help for another student.