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Generally, people who feel good about themselves are happy.  They believe that they can take on any problems and solve it.  They expect to succeed, and others are drawn to them.  It's very difficult for a person to enjoy life when he or she feels unhappy and they can also feel worthless and unable to accomplish anything.  Fortunately, there are steps we can take to improve the way we think about ourselves.  In this video, you will learn what you can do to help boost your self-esteem, and make yourself a happy, productive person.

The learning objectives for this DVD include:

• Students will understand why everyone needs good self-esteem.
• Students will be able to identify the characteristics of a person who has good self-esteem.
• Students will learn what they can do to improve their self-esteem.

This book is for all of us who always felt outside the norm in school.  Many of us were not necessarily Nerds or Intellectuals, but none the less, were never very popular in High School.  Maybe we were different for various reasons, but we new our talents would eventually serve as a foundation for success.  We, the Wusses, are a diverse group: Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, Bankers, Artists, Comedians, and many others who learned early how to thrive in adversity and can now look back and laugh.

This book is written from one child's perspective, as he goes through the day surrounded by secrets.  There are some he'll want to keep and some that make him feel sick inside, and he knows these are the kind that he'll have to ask for help with - from an adult he can trust. This book is written in verse and easy and fun to read.  Children feel empowered after hearing or reading it.  Designed for ages 3-8 to teach them when it is safe to keep a secret and when they need to tell an adult they trust.
Great for dealing with the school bully.  Approved for day care and elementary school bully-proofing programs!  No more kids keeping other kids' dirty little secrets.

Many of us know someone who is not happy unless they can engineer the movements of everyone around them.  These people force friends and family members to do what they don't want to do, and this type of manipulation and control are the tools of tyranny.  Understand what's behind a person's need to bend others to his or her own will.  See what you can do to resist people who are intent upon making decisions that you should be making for yourself.  Learn how you can assert yourself when others try to thwart your autonomy.

The learning objectives for this DVD include:

• Students will learn what motivates people to manipulate other people.
• Students will learn how a manipulator operates.
• Students will learn strategies for resisting manipulators.

They don't know one another well, and don't speak to one another at all, but one day at school, the paths of four teens will cross in ways they never imagined.  There's Tisha, who doesn't feel she fits in with anyone; Ryan, the football jock who rules the hallways while losing control of his life; Kurt, the "freak" who tries desperately to escape bullying; and Floater, who uses his connections to gain dangerous power.  On this day, teasing, racism, loneliness, and secrets bring each of them to the breaking point.  Now they must help each other prevent a tragedy.  The voices of these four teens weave together in prose-poetry to create a powerful story.

This book contains literacy-based activities to help your students with difficult social issues in their transition to adolescence.  These activities address bullying, peer pressure, drugs, accepting people with differences, entering upper grades and family stability.  Informative text readings are followed with reproducible activities, prompting writing with graphic organizers, discussion questions and follow-up suggestions.  This book is very motivating and relevant for today's classroom teens.