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Exploring Character: Real Life Scenarios That Will Get Students Talking About Values, Choices, and Behavior: Teacher Resource
Twenty-nine stories in Exploring Character are designed to encourage open-ended discussions about integrity, kindness, trustworthiness, courage, goodwill, openness, industriousness, cooperation and friendship. An activity or exercise follows each section as well as a teacher’s guide that will help you involve your students in thinking seriously about the elements that make up the character of a responsible person…. More >>
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A Love For Learning: Documentary about Progressive Education
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What is Progressive Education? Why is it important for our times? How is it transformative? Who are progressive educators? This DVD explores the educational philosophies of a wide range of educators who identify as “progressive”–holistic, experiential, liberatory, integral, student-centered, alternative, activist. It features interviews with leading authorities practicing and reflecting upon Progressive Education, its history, current issues, and visions for the future, including philosopher Dr. Elizabeth Minnich, public school teacher Dr. JoAnna Allen, and professor of African American studies, Dr. Arica Coleman. The film engages with the dialogue, concerns and hopes of students, teachers, alumni,/ae, staff an… More >>
A Love For Learning: Documentary about Progressive Education
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Mini-Lessons for Teaching About Nonfiction: Teacher-Tested Lessons With Research-Based Strategies That Introduce Key Nonfiction Features and Build Comprehension
- Made with the Best Quality Material with your child in mind.
- Top Quality Children’s Item.
Three seasoned teachers share ways to teach early learners to read and write informational texts. Their step-by-step mini-lessons demonstrate how to help children distinguish between fiction and nonfiction, build background knowledge and vocabulary, and become familiar with captions, diagrams, maps, and more. Also included are strategies for teaching about main idea, compare and contrast, and other key skills. For use with Grades K–2…. More >>
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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do about It
In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students.
Jensen argues that although chronic exposure to poverty can result in detrimental changes to the brain, the brain’s very ability to adapt from experience means that poor children can also experience emotional, social, and academic success. A brain that is susceptible to adverse environmental effects is equally susceptible to t… More >>
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Conservative Scare Tactics Dating Movie about Heavy Petting DVD
- Title: How Much Affection?
- Year: 1958
- Run Time:19:48
- Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
How Much Affection?, a telling vintage social guidance film, discusses whether or not to indulge in heavy petting. When Laurie and Jeff get deeply immersed one night while parking, Laurie suddenly regrets her behavior and runs off to have a heart to heart with her mother. Timeless wisdom is delivered: If you’ll just slow down the rush and pressure of your feelings a little, then judgment has a better chance to take hold and guide you away from wrong behavior. When you can rely on judgment rather than emotion to rule your behavior, as you did tonight, then you’ll really be grown up. Resorting to scare tactics, gross depictions of different couple who went too far, got pregnant, and had to get married fly across … More >>
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