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A child can be taught to have a winning and achieving orientation and the Nine Winning Practices™ model was developed to do just that. People often use the terms winning and losing but not always with the same meaning. ReBrilliance defines winning as knowing you've done your best with your best. Conversely, losing is the wasteful squandering of talents. Winning (and losing) days, weeks, years and lives are the results of the practices one chooses to practice. The Nine Winning Practices teach children how to have a winning and achieving orientation, enabling them to achieve more in the short term, and will make a lasting impression -- one that will serve them well in school and throughout their lives.

The Nine Winning Practices model is based on research, experience and observation. It is the engine of ReBrilliance programs and is a comprehensive, tested approach to enhancing children’s beliefs about themselves and their ability to achieve.

Taking a multi-faceted approach to this broad undertaking, the Nine Winning Practices model allows young people to understand the mechanics of how to excel. Students take ownership of the insight that achieving is something they can practice and do at will. At the heart of the Nine Winning Practices model are the nine practices themselves, each with a positive practice and a negative counterpart to help contrast and illustrate the all-important difference.

A distinction can be made when considering achievement and achieving. Achievement refers to success on a particular task. The student does well on a test, or performs well in a musical production, or excels on the athletic field during a contest. Achieving refers to excelling at multiple tasks in multiple settings over time. The achieving student performs to his or her best in the classroom, on the stage and at home.

Achieving is the result of an outlook, or orientation, that enables a student to excel in multiple settings over time. This is what ReBrilliance refers to as a winning and achieving orientation. A winning and achieving orientation generates achievements. The converse is not necessarily the case.

Robert Newberry developed the Nine Winning Practices model in order to take the mystery out of winning and achieving for children. Development was rooted in the following statement, a conclusion drawn by Robert Newberry after studying multiple bodies of relevant research:

When a child masters and internalizes the following four teachable factors:

High personal expectations, dreams and aspirations;
Internal locus of control;
Experiences personal affirmation and belief resulting from a key positive relationship; and
Positive orientation to challenge and adversity;

then certain behaviors will result. These behaviors are observable and also describe characteristics of a winning and achieving orientation. They are:

Pro-social behaviors,
Setting and sticking to goals,
Positive orientation to challenges,
Personal responsibility and self-control, and
Higher order philosophy.