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This important book provides easily followed strategies, activities, and suggestions for dealing with the various kinds of problems and challenges many educators face when attempting to communicate and work with some parents. Also included are useful insights to help you understand why some parents may seem particularly challenging to professional educators.

Pages:  104

There is finally an innovative resource that uses a practical approach designed to help teachers, counselors, parents and other professionals who strive to assist unmotivated, discouraged, and/or disruptive students. This book contains an extensive array of techniques, activities, strategies, and materials that are designed to make a positive difference for these students.

Pages:  109

This useful book contains a wide collection of well tested favorites, along with new innovative games that will improve a child's self-esteem. Using their background and in-depth knowledge of teaching group games, these authors have created a resource that will help busy teachers. This book will enable teachers to share in the friendship, fun, and humor of games with the knowledge that these childhood experiences will also help shape the adult lives of these students.

Pages:  144

This book contains a simple, easy way to teach children the basics of character education and school-to-work concepts. For each day of the school year, one character building theme is presented, and this is followed by a list of related suggestions or thoughts for children to discuss. This is a valuable resource that was designed for grade levels (K-12) and in any classroom setting (i.e. regular, special education, etc.) to encourage positive character traits. It can also be a useful guide for parents to use at home with their children.

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Manners are the foundation for showing respect for self and others, as well as a necessary life skill. This is a valuable resource that was designed for grade levels (K-12) and in any classroom setting (i.e. regular, special education, etc.) to encourage good manners. It can also be a useful guide for parents to use at home with their children. In addition, this book can be used along with any character education curriculum. It will help kids to focus, in particular, on learning how to behave in a considerate and thoughtful way for themselves and others. One manner topic is presented for each day of the school year, followed by a list of related thoughts or suggestions for kids to discuss.

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Stress affects everyone, including you.  A small amount of stress can be good, especially if it serves as a motivating force.  However, the level of stress in a person's life can become unmanageable.  When you have many equally important responsibilities that require your attention simultaneously, you might not know what to do.  Understand the purpose of stress and learn how to handle it correctly.  Included are some effective strategies to help you cope with stress and provide you with better equipment to keep your cool the next time life threatens to stress you out!

Runtime:  26 mins

In this book, the prehistoric bully is much like the one we see today, only bigger and with scales.  Maybe, by observing these ancient creatures and how they identify, cope with and prevent bullying, we can learn to deal with bullies we encounter in our modern society.  Dinos are picked on for all sorts of reasons.  His neck is too long, she is too big, look at that funny-shaped horn, we don't want to play with a spotted dinosaur. Watch how our dinosaurs find ways to handle the bully or bullies and how the bullies take a second look at themselves. This book is geared towards children ages 4 to 8.

Pages:  20

Did you know that a baby's brain is two and a half times more active than that of an adult, and that the networking of the brain's synapses is nearly complete after the first 3 years of life?  By giving your baby stimulating experiences encourages brain development that will prepare your baby for successful learning in the future.  Baby Smarts is based on the latest brain research, and filled with developmental games that will help you build your baby's brain power, one activity at a time.  Since each activity uses common materials, there's no need for expensive toys or equipment.  The book is divided into four chapters, with each representing a three-month period.  A chapter begins with a chart to help teachers and parents anticipate the typical developmental milestones for that age.  The corresponding games and activities develop and reinforce the skills babies need to reach those milestones.  Each and every activity in Baby Smarts builds the foundation for the future learning!

Pages:  128

Every new teacher's first concern is the issue that even the most experienced teachers are never complacent - how to control their classes.  How are some teachers so much more effective than others?  How do they manage their classes?  Indeed, how do they manage themselves?  By getting the basics right, through the four Rs - rights, responsibilities, rules and routines - and on to core principles and key strategies, Peter Hook and Andy Vass, two of the country's leading experts in behavior management, untangle the complexities of teacher-students relationships.  By offering a wide selection of techniques with practical illustrative examples, you won't be saying, "Yes, but how?" you'll find yourself nodding wisely, "So that's how."

Pages:  128

This book is a comprehensive collection of practical behavior management ideas, examples, strategies and resources. It gives you ideas on how to do the following:

• create a caring, safe and positive environment
• implement proactive preventive strategies
• develop positive relationships
• set some clear guidelines of behavior and appropriate consequences
• develop effective procedures, roles, and responsibilities for implementing a behavior management plan
• develop the resources to support a behavior management system
• set up rescue and support services for students and staff
• review, reflect and plan for improvement

Pages:  190

In this video, the story comes alive with color, sound and animation. Children are able to identify with Buddy as he learns the importance of perseverance and the consequences of a poor attitude. The story is followed with a lively animated "Dragon Basketball" exercise and review questions to reinforce the lessons presented. Kits include reproducible activities as well as a presenter's guide.

Runtime:  13 mins

In this story, Buddy has difficulty at school and at home until he begins to learn from his mistakes. He is embarrassed to admit his mistakes or admit that he doesn't understand, and feels that there is something wrong with him when he fails or makes an error. As a result, he tells himself that he can't succeed. This attitude changes when the school counselor shows Buddy how mistakes can help him improve his knowledge and skills. He learns to keep trying and ask for help if he needs it. The story is accompanied by questions to stimulate discussion of important issues. This pack contains reproducible activities, a story book, posters, and a user's guide.

Pages:  25

In this video, The story comes alive with color, sound and animation. Children will identify with Buddy as he learns the importance of listening to others and the four steps for active listening. The story is followed with animated questions to reinforce the lessons presented. The listening concepts presented are further emphasized in the Trampoline Game by an animated colorful dragon. Characters are placed in a series of realistic decision making situations where the viewers are invited to choose the correct course of action. Kits include reproducible activities.

Runtime:  14 mins

In this story, Buddy learns the importance of listening when he suffers some really unpleasant consequences because he was not paying attention. He makes poor grades in school, gets in trouble at home and is not allowed play in the big soccer game. One evening he gets the scare of his life when he misses his ride home because he didn't listen and is left standing alone. Thanks to the school counselor, his life begins to improve when he practices basic listening skills including stop, look, think and ask. This powerful story is accompanied by questions to stimulate discussion of important issues. This pack contains reproducible activities, a story book, posters, and a user's guide.

Pages:  25

In this video, The story comes alive with color, sound and animation Children are able to identify with Buddy as he learns the importance of telling the truth, following the rules, cooperating and respecting others. The story is followed with animated questions to reinforce the lessons presented. The playing fair rules presented in Buddy Learns To Play Fair are further emphasized in Dragon Play, a "Think About It" game. The game consists of animated colorful dragons placed in a series of realistic decision making situations where the viewers are invited to choose the correct course of action. Kits include reproducible activities as well as a presenter's guide.

Runtime:  9 mins

In this story, Buddy alienates other children when he cheats, pushes, and lies. Eventually, the children stop playing with him, and the school counselor sees him standing alone. When Buddy asks for help, the counselor teaches him the four rules for playing fair. The counselor and Buddy examine the importance of each rule including: telling the truth, following the rules, cooperating, and respecting others. Today Buddy has many friends because he follows those rules. The story is accompanied by questions to stimulate discussion of important issues. This pack contains reproducible activities, a story book, posters, and a user's guide.

Pages:  25

In this story, Buddy is worried that he will get in trouble if he takes responsibility for his misbehavior and mistakes, and finds it easier and safer to blame others. Children start getting angry for being blamed and refuse to play with Buddy. He learns what it feels like to be unfairly accused when he is blamed for the misbehavior and mistakes of another. Buddy realizes that he has been lying and blaming instead of taking responsibility. He learns to admit his mistakes and make amends for past errors. The story is accompanied by questions to stimulate discussion of important issues. This pack contains reproducible activities, a story book, posters, and a user's guide.

Pages:  25

All children can be challenging at some point in time, but some are more challenging than others.  Students with social, emotional and behavioral difficulties (SEBD) can be hard to support and teach.  This pocketbook can help you to do just that. Focusing on three particular behavior disorders: ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), CD (Conduct Disorder) and ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). Fintan O'Regan, who is an internationally renowned expert on ADHD, explains why some children are prone to developing the attitude that they can't learn, won't learn or don't care.  He devotes particular chapters to each behavior pattern, and uses Vicki, Liam and Darren to illustrate typical characteristics.  Practical strategies include classroom scenarios, with example dialogues that show how different teacher responses can lead to different outcomes.  Whether you're looking for explanations, tips, ideas, or strategies, or maybe just reassurance and support, this book covers it all.

Pages:  128

These guides are a simple, effective way to help parents, guardians and concerned adults teach children about good character. This character education guide provides easy to follow tips, steps, and instructions for helping children understand what good character qualities are and how they can personify them.

Pack:  25

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms. Topics covered in this book include:  Class rules, working together, good decisions, communicating, respect, honesty, the environment, bullying and more.

Pages:  88

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms.  Topics covered in this book include: friendship, fair play, goals, worrying, values, tolerance, bullying, conflict resolution, time management and more.

Pages: 104

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms.  Topics covered in this book include:  Roles, responsibility, goals, stress, stereotypes, tolerance, bullying, conflict resolution, peer pressure and more.

Pages:  104

Keeping kids interested and engaged in character education can be a big challenge. These entertaining and fast paced quiz shows come to the rescue! Using a fun and easy to grasp quiz show format These programs focus on five, age appropriate, character definitions and their application. A true understanding of each trait emerges as each situation and its associated choices and consequences are discussed.

Runtime:  99 mins

Child Behavior has become classic reading for parents and professionals around the world since it was first published.  This authoritative guide offers the basics of child development, addressing exactly how children's bodies can affect their behavior.  The authors not only discuss what to do to treat specific behavior problems but actually advise parents on how, in many instances, they can prevent many common and more serious problems.

Pages:  360

Absenteeism affects everyone, including the school culture, parents, classroom climate, and the community. This book is a manual to help increase school attendance based on current research, which meets the NCLB requirements. It contains a variety of activities and lessons that can be used for student individuals, small or large groups. Each activity is designed to help elementary students to understand that attendance is very important to their success in school. They will develop the skills and insight to help them to increase their confidence, internal focus of control, and ability to maximize their school attendance and positive attitudes toward school and learning. This book contains: Goal Chronic Sheets, Rap Song, Student and Parent Info-Grams, Reproducible activities, Student worksheets and Posters.

Pages:  130

These guides provide a simple, effective way to help parents, guardians and concerned adults help children handle conflicts. This conflict resolution guide gives easy to follow tips, steps, and instructions to help children develop the skills to constructively resolve conflicts can benefit in group activities, school, friendships, at home and in other situations.

Pack:  25

This book contains a collection of practical, age-appropriate activities that will help students understand the causes of conflict, and also allows them to practice skills and strategies for successful conflict resolution.  The reproducible student activities offer challenging situations that stimulate higher-level thinking and active participation.

Pages:  80

This book contains a collection of practical, age-appropriate activities that will help students understand the causes of conflict, and also allows them to practice skills and strategies for successful conflict resolution.  The reproducible student activities offer challenging situations that stimulate higher-level thinking and active participation.

Pages:  80

This book contains a collection of practical, age-appropriate activities that will help students understand the causes of conflict, and also allows them to practice skills and strategies for successful conflict resolution.  The reproducible student activities offer challenging situations that stimulate higher-level thinking and active participation.

Pages:  80

The purpose of this program is to introduce the basic concepts of conflict resolution in a fun and informative manner, using colorful animations and humorous situations to emphasize each concept. These videos present common conflict situations with animation and dialog that kids encounter and examine alternative courses of action while stimulating discussion. Kit includes leader's guide, score sheet, parent guide, certificate of completion and a program script.

Runtime:  50 mins

This conflict management guide contains 20 easy-to-use lessons, role-playing activities, reproducible handouts, parent information and a full color poster set. Additionally, there are fun puppet show scripts that focus on four fundamental skills children can use to help manage their anger and conflicts between themselves. The information for parents corresponds to each lesson skill, and is included in the format of school newsletter articles and letters to the parents to inform them about what their children are learning and how they can help at home.

Pages:  128

We have all been affected by stress, both emotionally and physically.  If stress is not managed correctly, it can result in substance abuse, violence, or even the possibility of suicide.   This video program answers the question, 'How can a person cope with stress?'

Runtime:  15 mins

Nobody makes it through their entire life without feeling disappointment or rejection.  For some, the effects can be long-lasting, and they may feel that there is no hope things will ever go their way.  In this video, you'll learn about the various forms of rejection and the disappointment that inevitably follows.  You will also learn about the different strategies that can be used to help combat rejection and lead to a more positive outlook on life.

Runtime:  24 mins

Social anxiety is America's third-largest psychiatric disorder.  It usually develops during the mid-teen years, and almost always before the age of twenty-five.  Understand what triggers the development of anxiety and learn how it can sometimes evolve into a full-blown panic disorder, which is characterized by recurrent attacks of terror or fear.  The consequences of social anxiety are examined and effective treatments are discussed.

Runtime:  22 mins

Everyone experiences some fear from time to time;  It's a natural human response. Some fears can be beneficial to us because they make us take precautions to keep ourselves safe.  However, other fears immobilize us and keep us under their control.  There are effective strategies that can be used to handle fear.

Runtime:  21 mins

This story shows how peer pressure may sometimes lead to harmful behavior. Luis starts doing things he does not normally do in an attempt to be accepted by the "cool" kids at school. He starts to steal, lie, bully, copy homework, smoke and drink beer to impress his new friends. Luis invites the twins to his house while his parents are away for a party that starts to get out of control. Luis feels "cool" until things go wrong and he gets in trouble with his parents, the kids at school, his teacher, and the police. He finds that there can be serious consequences for such negative behavior and that being "cool" come with consequences. This book also contains questions and suggestions to provide guidance on how to avoid making bad decisions as a result of peer-pressure.

Pages:  25

Feet are used for many things, like walking, standing, leaping and landing.  They're also used for kicking balls or leaves, but not for kicking people!  In simple words and adorable, full-color illustrations, this book helps little ones learn to use their feet for fun, not in anger or frustration.  Made to be read aloud, this book also includes tips for parents and caregivers on how to help toddlers be sweet with their feet.

Pages:  24

These five games teach important social skills, and are played similar to the traditional games; Go Fish, War, Memory, Old Maid, and Crazy Eights. The cards include various topics with motivating questions that help stimulate discussions within a group. Each card game focuses on one area of relational aggression or bullying. Games include: Queen of Mean, Crazy Dates, Peace Not War, Go Talk, and Confidence Concentration.

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This DVD contains both the Happy to be Me and Glad to Be Me videos with two presentations of each one, with and without counselor comments. Discussion questions at the end of the videos help reinforce the self-esteem concepts presented in the story. Children develop an awareness of what promotes self-respect and what tears it down, as they watch Luis' personal transition. Kit includes 12 minute video, activity book, discussion guide, parent guide, game and follow-up activities.

Runtime:  24 mins

Hazing and peer intimidation are situations that occur in student life at schools and universities across the nation, but no one hears about them.   On almost any college campus, you'll find at least one student that will admit to knowing someone who has been hazed or intimidated.   Why are hazing and intimidation such taboo subjects?  What is actually considered hazing?  Can you tell if you are being intimidated?  In this video, you will find out just what acts are considered to be hazing and peer intimidation, then learn the adverse effects they can have on a student's mind and body and what you can do to change the situation.

Runtime:  25 mins

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.

Runtime:  26 mins

Pages:  224

For small children, sharing can be a hard concept to understand. With help from this book, they learn that sharing can also be fun! By using simple, repetitive text and cute toddlers, this playful little book is a great way to introduce kids the magic of sharing.

Pages:  14

This is an excellent book for anyone that works with or has children. It will teach them to stand up for themselves and not tolerate troublesome behaviors that are repetitive and may turn into bullying behaviors. The main character in this book is Tommy, and he is a normal, average looking kid who is bothered simply because he looks average. Children are taught 5 ways to prevent bullying before it happens. These strategies are incorporated into a song called If You're Bothered and You Know it which is based on the popular tune, If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands. This book is easy for children to relate to and has follow up activities that correspond with five short stories. They will enjoy the full color, beautifully illustrated stories and will learn specific ways to handle annoying behaviors.

Pages:  41

In this book, the use of cognitive-behavioral theory and techniques is provided to give school personnel the tools to teach students in grades K-6 how to stop and think before acting. The book provides more than 120 activities and reproducible worksheets to help students think about and practice strategies to take charge of their own impulses. The games, role-plays and worksheets are presented in a playful, but thoughtful manner to help engage children while they learn valuable lessons about how to use self-control techniques.

Pages:  140

This book provides teachers, school counselors, social workers and psychologists with tools to assist students in grades 6-8 with better impulse control. The book provides more than 130 activities and reproducible worksheets to help students think about and practice strategies to address many areas that are affected by being impulsive, such as academics, emotions, problem-solving, social skills, and romantic relationships.

Pages:  130

The following book contains a compilation of easy-to-implement strategies and activities to help educators unlock the potential of students who are difficult to manage. Working with them can be strenuous and frustrating at times and unfortunately, due to the behavioral challenges they present to educators, these students sometimes do not receive the support and encouragement they need to succeed. This book also provides many unique ideas for managing and surviving the "difficult classroom". Learn the best ways for reaching and helping Attention-Seekers, Manipulators, Hostile Students, and Apathetic students. Also included are many useful insights into home issues and other underlying causes of difficult behaviors.

Pages:  142

With a growing need to focus on accountability, schools need to offer students that are assigned to In-School Suspension, an opportunity to correct poor behavior in hopes of optimizing learning. This program's goal is to afford positive change by teaching students about their behavior, provide them with activities to understand their behavior and give them steps to improve. In addition, worksheets, reproducible activities, case scenarios, suggestions and strategies, contracts and other helpful information are included for students. Seven lessons are provided as part of your school's In-School Suspension program for students in grades 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. The lessons include: Decision-Making, Bullying Behavior Management, Good and Bad Choices, Conflict Resolution and Organization & Study Skills. This book is a necessary resource for all schools.

Pages:  216

Many people, including professional educators, child workers and parents will find this book to be informative, motivating and enjoyable to use with children. The included activities, lessons, and reproducible materials can help children learn all about their feelings. The included games, activities and worksheets will help children learn to better understand and express their feelings in proper ways. They will also learn to become more self-confident and to develop their social skills. Every bully prevention, conflict-resolution, anger management, or social skills program should start by preparing children with a basis in emotional intelligence. As the children become more emotionally intelligent, their ability to cope and become more resilient will increase. In addition, they will gain skills to use in their daily lives to help them to be more successful. This book can be used by itself, or in conjunction with the full color Feeling Cards available from YouthLight.

Pages:  98

These guides provide a simple, effective way to help parents, guardians and concerned adults to teach children active listening skills. This listening guide gives easy to follow tips, steps, and instructions for helping children become good, active listeners and eventually, make them better students.

Pack:  25

Finally, a book about behavioral management in the classroom that won't put you to sleep!  Gerard Gordon is an teacher with specific experience in the field of Special Needs, and in particular, the development and implementation of programs to help with the management of challenging children.  This book is presented in a light, easy-to-read format, and provides basic ground rules and structures for improving the way you work with children and help them to achieve their potential.  There is something in this book that every teacher, student and parent can learn.

Pages:  104

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.

Runtime:  24 mins

This charming story of an anxious little puppy, Mustang, was written to help children face their fears about school. Many children are afraid of school. Without timely intervention, these fears can escalate into school phobia. This book contains reproducible activities and worksheets that will help teach children how to use positive self-talk to overcome any fears they might have about school. In the process, they will learn a valuable skill that will help them overcome other new challenges in their life as they encounter them.

Pages:  42

Some elementary school-aged children have a very difficult time transitioning to a new school, and this book can help. It's a helpful, endearing book that will provide new students with fresh insights and specific strategies, while understanding feelings of loss, loneliness and fear. For each page of the story, there are recommended discussion questions and an advice letter from another child. Also included is a listing of recommended strategies in the book to help these children with their transition to a new school.

Pages:  42

This book can help small children by teaching them to stop hitting and screaming and yelling, and start having fun! It's a funny book that is honest and all too true, and it's perfect for toddlers and parents. You'll find that it provides an easy way for parents to steer their little ones toward, can we say, more suitable behavior.

Pages:  14

This FULL-COLOR comic book is part of the Out Of This World Comic Book and Activity-Based Guidance Series for Kids. Kids love comic books and activity pages, and this unique series features attention grabbing stories. In this issue, Max and his companions escape Secca Ma's compound and begin trying to locate their lost friend, Tiglos. After a plan to find Tiglos is made, Max is put in charge of monitor duty, which is a really important, but boring job. He stops paying attention and is distracted when Tiglos sends a distress message. Will Max pay attention in time to rescue his friend, or does he learn the importance of concentration the hard way? Also included is a Leader's Guide to show an adult, page by page, how to achieve the book's full potential with kids.

Pages:  32

This FULL-COLOR comic book is part of the Out Of This World Comic Book and Activity-Based Guidance Series for Kids. Kids love comic books and activity pages, and this unique series features attention grabbing stories. In this issue, Max is still upset regarding the big mistake he made when he failed to pay attention. Now he wants to fix the mistake, or his friend Tiglos may be lost forever! Max learns how preparing and being motivated helps him find success. Also included is a Leader's Guide to show an adult, page by page, how to achieve the book's full potential with kids.

Pages:  32

The terrifying feeling of being unsure of yourself and your abilities, as a result of self-doubt, can be a problem all by itself.  It's even worse when feelings of self-doubt are combined with the sudden emergence of an overwhelming obstacle, which makes the situation emotionally crippling.  This situation can negatively impact a person's state of mind, and many people usually give up when confronted by such situations because they don't know how to deal with them.  There are few problems that cannot be solved when people learn to overcome their feelings of self-doubt and learn to manage overwhelming situations.  This video contains simple, yet positive strategies that can help transform feelings of fear into feelings of triumph and confidence.

Runtime:  15 mins

There are many people that like to tell lies or engage in sexual activity, but when does this normal activity become a pathological one?   Students are taught the differences between normal, healthy behaviors and those that are pathological.  In this video, you will find out how to recognize the signs of pathological lying, thrill seeking, kleptomania and sex addiction and discover ways to get help before it's too late.

Runtime:  27 mins

This video presents basic sportsmanship concepts using an animated book presentation. The viewers are asked to choose from alternative solutions to sportsmanship issues that arise in a school talent contest. In the Quiz Show segment, children are presented with a variety of challenging situations from four categories: School. Friends, Family and situations. Each situation is communicated with humorous animation, and viewers can choose from five alternatives, with points won or lost based on the quality of response selected. Discussing the possible consequences of each response is outlined in the discussion guide. Also included is a CD-ROM containing reproducible activities.

Runtime:  18 mins

Many teachers today are facing a variety of issues concerning discipline that they never realized when they decided to become teachers. Along with the usual problems of bullying and bad attendance, add violence, behavioral disorders and more, and the mix becomes very dangerous. However, there are successful strategies for re-establishing order and bringing back the relationship of mutual respect between teacher and student and restoring an effective learning environment. This all-inclusive guide will make a positive impact at all grade levels. Inside this book, you'll find 17 fundamental tools for positive discipline, some real-life stories of verified positive discipline strategies, and suggestions for creating and maintaining respectful relationships with students.

Pages:  304

In the joyful time leading up to the birth of a child, there are plans to be made and plenty of worries. Being a loving, thoughtful parent means you want to start your child's life on the correct path. Many parents have come to believe and put their trust in Jane Nelsen's classic Positive Discipline series, because they offer a balanced, sensible approach to raising children in today's world. In Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, you'll find answers to such questions as: How can I converse with an infant who doesn't understand words? How can I successfully teach boundaries to my toddler? Should I ever spank my child? You'll learn how to use a caring, but firm approach to raising a child who is both proficient and confident. This book includes practical solutions and advice on how to: encourage independence and discovery while providing appropriate limits, use non-penalizing techniques to implant valuable social skills and positive behavior inside and outside the home, recognize when your child is ready to master the challenges of sleeping, eating, and potty training, and learn how to identify your child's temperament.

Pages:  304

This book, written by a bestselling parenting author, explains how to make time-out a more positive learning experience for children, since it is one of the most popular disciplinary methods used in homes and schools today. It is supposed to be a positive, encouraging, experience for children, but it may have the opposite effect, becoming penalizing, unproductive, and destructive to their tender minds. With this book, you'll understand how positive time-outs can teach children the skills needed for self-restraint and give them many important qualities, such as self-confidence and ability to solve their own problems. You'll also see how to: make time-out a valuable, motivating experience; develop a plan of attack to avoid losing control with children; give power to children by making them part of the behavior changing process, and understand the misguided goals of negative behavior.

Pages:  192

This book has helped hundreds of thousands of parents raise independent, competent children. With its tenth anniversary, this classic returns fully revised and updated with new, current information to offer you exciting and practical ideas for creating a trusting relationship with your children. It contains the necessary skills to employ the discipline to help your child become a responsible adult. Any parent that thinks about using leniency or strictness to control their children will be amazed by this book, because it goes further and teaches children to be responsible and self-reliant using their own inner behavior, such as feeling accountable for their actions and not through external concerns, such as fear and intimidation. By reading this book, you'll learn how to encourage character building values and traits in your child that will last a lifetime.

Pages:  230

In this book, the concept of gratitude is introduced because the feeling of being grateful is very motivating, and makes you want to give back. Young children can also do their part to help make this world a better place. By using simple words and inspiring illustrations, we see boys and girls contributing in important ways. Children see that by sharing their time, their talent and their things, they can bring goodness back to themselves. This book is made to read aloud, and also includes a special section for adults that contains discussion questions to share, generosity games to play and ideas for projects that are suitable for young children.

Pages:  36

Things last longer when we take care of them, and everything has its place. By using simple words and inspiring illustrations, we see boys and girls being taught about being respectful, responsible and also about stewardship. They learn to pick up after themselves, put things back where they belong, ask other people for permission before using their things, and become more environmentally aware. This book is made to read aloud, and also includes a special section for adults that contains discussion questions, ideas for responsibility role play, games to play and tips on storing toys so play areas can remain clean.

Pages:  35

Teaching values education has always been a part of learning, often taking place indirectly during the school day.  Respect, Grades 1-2, takes a focused approach to values instruction, taking up current pedagogy, the most up-to-date research, and effective conflict resolution models.  The reproducible activities help students to recognize and internalize the core values practiced in their school and community.  Children learn the difference between "inner power" and "power over" as they work to develop a personal value framework that incorporates respect for themselves and others.

Pages:  60

Teaching values education has always been a part of learning, often taking place indirectly during the school day.  Respect, Grades 3-4, takes a focused approach to values instruction, taking up current pedagogy, the most up-to-date research, and effective conflict resolution models.  The reproducible activities help students to recognize and internalize the core values practiced in their school and community.  Children learn the difference between "inner power" and "power over" as they work to develop a personal value framework that incorporates respect for themselves and others.

Pages:  82

Teaching values education has always been a part of learning, often taking place indirectly during the school day.  Respect, Grades 5-6, takes a focused approach to values instruction, taking up current pedagogy, the most up-to-date research, and effective conflict resolution models.  The reproducible activities help students to recognize and internalize the core values practiced in their school and community.  Children learn the difference between "inner power" and "power over" as they work to develop a personal value framework that incorporates respect for themselves and others.

Pages:  67

These guides provide a simple, effective way to help parents, guardians and concerned adults promote positive self esteem in children. This self esteem guide gives easy to follow tips, steps, and instructions for helping improve a child's self esteem.

Pack:  25

Developing self-esteem and social resilience in students is fundamental to creating a safe, happy learning environment.  This book addresses these issues.  You can help your students develop skills in self-management, decision making, communication, goal setting, and cooperation.  Each lesson in Self-Esteem, Grades 2-3, includes a teacher page with objectives, pre-lesson discussion, and follow-up suggestions along with student reproducible page with clear instructions.

Pages:  128

Developing self-esteem and social resilience in students is fundamental to creating a safe, happy learning environment.  This book addresses these issues.  You can help your students develop skills in self-management, decision making, communication, goal setting, and cooperation.  Each lesson in Self-Esteem, Grades 4-5, includes a teacher page with objectives, pre-lesson discussion, and follow-up suggestions along with student reproducible page with clear instructions.

Pages:  128

Developing self-esteem and social resilience in students is fundamental to creating a safe, happy learning environment.  This book addresses these issues.  You can help your students develop skills in self-management, decision making, communication, goal setting, and cooperation.  Each lesson in Self-Esteem, Grades 6-8, includes a teacher page with objectives, pre-lesson discussion, and follow-up suggestions along with student reproducible page with clear instructions.

Pages:  128

Each of these six unique board game has players discuss the solutions to socially challenging situations.  These are no correct or incorrect answers.  Together the group decides upon the best action encouraging all players to communicate, listen and participate in the game.  The game target six important issues that stutdents grades 1 to 5 often struggle with;

• Morals
• Manners
• Empathy
• Friendship
• Showing Emotions
• Managing Emotions

In this book, Spot discovers that school is fun and interesting. After a warm greeting by his teacher and classmates, Spot hides (under one of the flaps found on every page) when it's time to sing a song. "I can't sing," he says. There is no resolution to this, but Spot soon finds plenty to do as the disorganized plot reveals Spot's fun activities at school. This includes finding dress-up clothes in a small playhouse, spelling the word "DOG" with blocks, story time by the teacher, playing teeter-totter, and painting paw prints. When his mom picks him up and asks, "How was school, Spot?" He answers with a loud "Great!". The book contains twenty-two brightly illustrated pages showing Spot enjoying school after some initial doubt.

Pages:  22

Sally and her friends may be kids...but kids have stress too!  Stressball Sally and Friends follow the school days of a young girl and her classmates as they deal with everyday situations that cause stress in their lives.  In each episode of this educational DVD, stress reduction tools are both taught and applied.  In episode one, Sally, Will, and Martha learn to relax with deep breathing exercises and the power of positive thought.  Extra bonus material includes additional support information presented by school counselors and co-creators of this video that help adults recognize the warning signs of stress in kids and provide useful tools to help.  This DVD is geared toward children pre-k to grade 6.

Runtime:  32 mins

With more than 200 "ready to use" strategies, this easy-to-use book is an excellent resource designed to provide elementary school educator with useful prevention and intervention resources for managing uncooperative and disruptive students. It will provide important insight into building a proactive educational environment, using successful intervention strategies, and employing techniques for motivation and reinforcement. The educator will be particularly interested in the handy "Dictionary of Interventions" which provides useful and immediate strategies for dealing with 20 types of disruptive behavior. No classroom should be without this very important book. It's an invaluable resource for teachers, school counselors, administrators, and support personnel.

Pages:  148

Its never too early for children to learn the methods of conflict resolution in a peaceful manner.  The best way to solve problems between people is by talking them over and working them out.  This book breaks the process down into clear, simple language with supporting, full color illustrations.  Children will learn to compose themselves, state the problem, listen, think of solutions, evaluate results, and even agree to disagree and show respect.  Made to be read aloud, this book also includes a special section for adults with problem solving games to play, sample scenarios and role playing with children.

Pages:  40

Empathy is a basic social emotion because it creates an emotional connection to others. By helping children develop greater empathy, it increases their emotional awareness and skills, and this can help prevent negative social behaviors such as bullying, meanness, and alienation. This awareness is not only fundamental to all healthy relationships; it is the root of positive social behavior, altruism, kindness and peace. Empathy has cognitive, affective and behavioral components that can be learned and improved upon by children.

Pages:  132

The United States has been plagued with many acts of teen violence that have resulted in tragedy.  We often wonder what could cause seemingly normal teenagers to act out in violence and vandalism.  Some people believe that feelings of isolation and alienation have fueled these acts.  By watching this video, you'll have the opportunity to face issues dealing with social alienation, and stop the violence.

Runtime:  22 mins

This book has been entirely updated, adding the latest information on medications, ADHD, and uses a caring approach to deal with all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders.  It is the respected book on parenting those difficult children that are hard to raise, and contains new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.  Dr. Stanley Turecki is a highly respected expert on children and discipline, and was also the father of a difficult child at one time.  He offers compassionate and useful information to parents of these type of children.  Using his experience with many families in the highly successful Difficult Children Program that he created for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, his approach, one step at a time, shows you how to use a ten-point test to identify your child's temperament.  You will be able to isolate specific difficulties and learn to handle common, but sometimes unmanageable situations expertly and calmly.

Pages:  302

Using these 162 engaging group activities, children learn to find friends, get along with others, and respect each other's feelings and differences.  Every activity uses easily-accessible materials and incorporates the joy of music, movement, puppet-making, playdough fun, gardening and more.  Children will learn some great skills, including: Cooperation, Gentleness, Consideration of Others, Problem Solving, Generosity, and Recognition of Emotions.  This is a great book for fostering sharing and caring.

This book covers 5 timeless principles to re-engage tough kids in school. It's a fresh approach to managing and helping students who are resistant or non-responsive to standard forms of discipline in schools. It provides a number of alternative strategies and lessons that can be useful for classroom and special education teachers, counselors, social workers, administrators and other educational professionals who are in contact with students who exhibit very challenging attitudes and behaviors in school. The book also contains suggestions, strategies, activities and reproducible worksheets that incorporate the five redemption principles. The following topics can be particularly helpful with students when other methods seem to fail to bring lasting positive change

Pages:  96

Boys tend to have more problems than girls, starting in preschool, where they get expelled almost five times more than girls. Through elementary school, they're diagnosed four times as often as girls with learning disorders, and by the time they reach the eighth grade, many are reading below the necessary level. In high school, they're in the minority in most advanced classes. They show lack of interest in most extra-curricular activities, except for athletics. According to statistics, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and their numbers continue to decrease. The author explains how the educational process is failing our boys, and why this is occurring. She has interviewed large numbers of experts, parents, kids, teachers, and examines the statistics. In this book, she describes why the system needs to change, and the right way to make this happen.

Pages:  320

The best way for young children to learn is by doing, and that includes learning values.  The Values Book is packed with easy activities, ideas, and projects that will help children learn values and build character, both individually and in groups.  Each chapter addresses one of 16 different values, including understanding, patience and tolerance.  After defining the value, each chapter begins with questions to help adults clarify what that value means to them.  This is the perfect book to introduce and strengthen the teaching of values in any early childhood classroom or home.

Pages:  168

Society has changed, children have changed, and adults must change how they discipline children in order to be effective.   You discipline children the way you discipline yourself, and we cannot teach children skills we do not possess.  This book uniquely and humorously helps adults uncover damaging beliefs about themselves and children.  Learn how to use every conflict moment as a teaching opportunity.  Learn the keys to successfully discipline yourself and your child.   Acquire the strategies you need to create a problem solving community of learners.  Transform aggression, stop power struggles, empower both yourself and children!

Pages:  325

As they grow up, teens start feeling more emotions and will have experiences that may leave them feeling stressed out, confused, angry, or depressed.  Most teens are able to handle the range of emotions they experience, but some are unable to, and head down the path of self-destructive behavior.  In this video, students will find out what may lead someone to destroy him or herself, how he or she does it, and the ways they may be able to be helped.

Runtime:  28 mins

This book contains practical ideas to help teachers deal with disruptive students. You'll find it to be a very enjoyable read, although it takes a firm tone. It's sprinkled with short stories, poems, mottoes, affirmations, checklists, and valuable reproducible activities. You'll learn about the Wandering Tattler, Bully Box, The Worry Wall, The Un-teachable, Soothing Stones, and the Use of Mnemonics. Students will love the stories of "The Listening Skulls" and "Booker T. Washington's Most Valuable Lesson". The book ends with a detailed description of the Back-Up unit which is a program based on a ten year study that helped one school decrease discipline problems by nearly 80%. Warning: Some of the strategies are considered a bit extreme by some teachers, so you need to use your best judgment!

Pages:  104

Many children today have fears.  Some are real and others are imagined.  This book provides encouraging words and full color, supportive illustrations to show them how to face their fears and know where they can turn to for help.  Small children will also learn simple ways to help themselves.  The book also includes a special section for adults that contains ideas for supporting children when they feel afraid, and a gives list of additional resources.

Pages:  40

Many students are completely detached from school and have no desire to learn there. This book is full of strategies and skill-building activities that school professionals can use to help these detached students. Sometimes these children come with various levels of past home disruption, placements in foster care, adoptive homes, residential placements, or emergency shelter placements. Using the school setting can be important to help in the stabilization of these students and families.

Pages:  84