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"Obey, Don't Stray" Character Classics with Music CD (Teacher's Guide available - search under Character Classics)

Tony Salerno Children will enjoy this exciting story as they discover how obedience has its own rewards. Colorful illustrations. Fun workbook included with a CD full of delightful songs.

"Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain

Marcia L. Tate This indispensable resource draws on the latest research in brain-based learning to provide strategies that motivate adult learners and increase retention. Tate defines each strategy, explains its theoretical framework, and provides multiple professional learning activities.

A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen A collection of inspirational writings follows themes of love, developing a positive attitude, humor, and healthy relationships, and features the works of such authors as Tony Robbins, Art Buchwald, Gloria Steinem, and more. Simultaneous. 200,000 first printing.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

Stephen R. Covey "What is 'effectiveness' in a family?" asks author Steven R. Covey. He promptly answers with four words: "a beautiful family culture." Building this culture is the primary theme of Covey's parenting guide, a manual based on concepts introduced in his blockbuster, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey, a New-Age business guru and leadership authority, has consulted with the world's top corporate and political leaders, but closer to home he is the father of nine children. Here, Covey reinterprets each of his now famous "habits" (Habit 1: Be Proactive, Habit 4: Think Win-Win, Habit 6: Synergize) to apply to parenting and family-life issues. Covey suggests writing a family mission statement, implementing special family times and "one-on-ones," holding regular family meetings, and making the commitment to move from "me" to "we" as techniques to improve family effectiveness. Covey is a brilliant storyteller. By weaving the voices and anecdotes of his wife and children with his own inspirational and informative stories, exercises, and parables, he has created a book with something for all parents interested in enhancing the strength and beauty of their own families. —Ericka Lutz

22 Keys To Creating A Meaningful Workplace

Tom Terez When it comes to attracting, retaining, and bringing out the very best in employees, the times have changed dramatically. People want something more—a workplace that engages not only their hands, but also their hearts and minds.
It may be our biggest organizational challenge of the new decade: How to create truly meaningful workplaces. 22 Keys to Creating a Meaningful Workplace is all about meeting the challenge. Tom Terez transforms a year's worth of interviews and focus groups, and his extensive in-the-trenches experience, into a step-by-step guide that can be used by everyone—from the front-line employee to the mid-level manager to the CEO.
Learn the 22 keys to a meaningful workplace.
Use these keys to conduct an eye-opening assessment of your own organization.
Find more than 100 action ideas, all aimed at enriching your corner of the work world.

101 Support Group Activities for Teenagers Affected by Someone Else's Alcohol/Drug Use

Martin Fleming Johnson Institute

Gives new and experienced support group leaders numerous tools to help students boost self-esteem, identify defenses, reduce shame, and learn about chemical dependency.

Teen- and school-focused activities can be easily modified for younger students and for other settings, such as aftercare, treatment, therapy, and youth groups.

101 Ways to Teach Children Social Skills: A Ready-to-Use Reproducible Activity Book with CD

Lawrence E. Shapiro Description: This appealingly illustrated book includes 101 ready-to-use activities to help children: Do better in school, Face life`s challenges with greater resiliency, Have a better self-image, Experience the rewards of positive relationships. Activities are easily reproducible, either by photocopying pages or printing PDF files from CD included with the book. It can be used as the basis of a social skills curriculum or as part of an educational plan to address specific problems. Topics include: communicating; nonverbal communication; being part of a group; expressing your feelings; caring about yourself and others; problem solving; listening; standing up for yourself; and understanding and managing conflict. Intended Audience: Elementary School, Middle School

180 Days of Character

Donna B. Forrest This book provides an easy-to-use way to teach children the basics of character education and school-to-work concepts. One character building theme is presented for each day of the school year, followed by a list of related thoughts or suggestions for children to discuss. This resource can be used in any grade level (K-12) and in any classroom setting (i.e. regular, special education, etc.) to promote positive character traits. It is also a useful tool for parents to use with their children at home.

About Bullying

Channing Bete Provides readers with several techniques (including humor and assertiveness) for dealing successfully with bullies, tells where to find adult help, and explains why some young people verbally and/or physically bully others. 16 pages, 5 1/2" x 8" 23 copies

Activities That Teach

Tom Jackson A collection of 60 creative, innovative, and user-friendly Active Learning lesson plans which will influence student behavior and attitudes for a lifetime. This teaching strategy is part of the educational trend, which promotes cooperation, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, and experiential learning. The Active Learning approach has worked with urban as well as suburban, elementary as well as secondary, and at-risk as well as gifted students.

Advisor/Advisee Character Education

Sarah Sadlow Character is built gradually and is learned by instruction, observation and interaction with people of integrity and openness. That is why teachers play a significant role in communicating and modeling the principles contained in this book. Sadlow gives us 24 character building lessons to be implemented into the classroom.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Judith Viorst The story is about Alexander and his very bad day. Read about his best friend that deserted him, and no dessert in his lunch bag and lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV. Paperback.

Am I in Trouble?: Using Discipline to Teach Young Children Responsibility

Richard L. Curwin, Allen N. Mendler This book describes ways that parents, teachers, and caregivers can give children the support, encouragement, and problem-solving skills they need. It is designed to help these adults work together with children to create the best environment for a child's emotional, physical, and intellectual well-being. The emphasis is on skills for positive relationships with children. Real-life situations are used to illustrate creative and sensitive responses to adult-child issues. Key issues covered in the book include: (1) how good discipline enhances children's self-esteem; (2) how to teach discipline with dignity and respect; (3) how to teach young children the natural and logical consequences of their actions; (4) differentiating between consequences and punishment; (5) setting effective limits and keeping them; and (6) how to solve problems together. Other topics examined in individual chapters are the purpose of rules, communicating, empowering, negotiating, humor, the bottom line, family living, and common problems and situations.

America : A Patriotic Primer

Lynne Cheney Written by Lynne Cheney, author and wife of Vice President Richard Cheney, to honor this "beautiful land made more beautiful still by our commitment to freedom," America: A Patriotic Primer is a proud celebration of the individuals, milestones, and principles of this nation. Each busy spread features elaborately decorated letters of the alphabet, with one or two kids draped over its bars and loops, along with the highlighted concept or person: "N is for Native Americans, who came here first," "T is for Tolerance." Surrounding every letter is a veritable circus of entertaining and useful related information, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser (Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move). "J is for Jefferson," for example, is bordered with biographical details and quotations from Thomas Jefferson, while mini images depict the third president's famous home (Monticello), some of his inventions, and a description of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. This compelling picture book will work best as a supplement for children who are already immersed in basic American history at school. Teachers and parents will enjoy exploring with their kids every inch of the detailed, hand-drawn and illustrated U.S. map found in "U is for United States," explaining and elaborating on the historical lessons as appropriate. (All ages) —Emilie Coulter

Anger Management And Violence Prevention: A Group Activities Manual For Middle And High School Students

Teresa M. Schmidt M.S.W. L.C.S.W. B.C.D. Johnson Institute

This book tells how to help teenagers deal with anger, using an eleven-session support group model.

Teenagers will explore their feelings, receive guidelines for the appropriate expression of feelings, and learn survival skills for handling emotionally violent environments.

Anger Management for Youth: Stemming Aggression and Violence

Leona L. Eggert Anger Management for Youth was written to assist grades 9 12 group leaders in teaching groups of adolescents to learn anger-management techniques. The major sections of this book include an introduction to Anger Management for Youth for group leaders, Getting Started, Anger Management for Youth modules, and monitoring and check-back tools. The introduction provides a brief history of Anger Management for Youth, key concepts about anger and anger management, and description of the model. It also covers specific leader competencies for both the group counseling and skills training approaches that are integrated in Anger Management for Youth. The overall program goals, objectives, and content of the modules are described and diagrammed.

Assertive Discipline: Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom

Lee Canter and Marlene Canter Assertive discipline is a structured, systematic approach designed to assist educators in running an organized, teacher-in-charge classroom environment. To no one's surprise, Lee and Marlene Canter, when consulting for school systems, found that many teachers were unable to manage the undesirable behavior that occurred in their classrooms. The Cantors, rightfully so, attributed this finding to a lack of training in the area of behavior management. Based on their investigation and the foundations of assertiveness training and applied behavior analysis, they developed a common sense, easy-to-learn approach to help teachers become the captains of their classrooms and positively influence their students' behavior. Today, it is the most widely used "canned" (prepared/packaged) behavior management program in the world. Assertive discipline has evolved since the mid 70's from a rather authoritarian approach to one that is now more democratic and cooperative.
The Cantors believe that you, as the teacher, have the right to determine what is best for your students, and to expect compliance. No pupil should prevent you from teaching, or keep another student from learning. Student compliance is imperative in creating and maintaining an effective and efficient learning environment. To accomplish this goal, teachers must react assertively, as opposed to aggressively or non assertively.

The At-Risk Student In Our Schools

Stephen B. McCarney, Ed.D. This Model for teaching appropriate behavior places an emphasis on the student learning responsibility for behavior. To do this, the student must see the relationship of behavior to the consequence which follows. The student must understand that it is his or her behavior which determines the consequences and that it is he or she who makes the consequence occur, not the teacher, the principal, or the school. This Model offers teachers various ways to work specifically with students who are "At-Risk" and at the same time maintain a structured and positive environment for all students.

Backstage Pass for Trainers, Facilitators, and Public Speakers: Your Guide to Successful Presentations

Ms. Susan J. Jones A do-it-yourself speaking coach, mentor, and image consultant rolled into one, this humorous book shows how to get your point across and win your audience.

Battles, Hassles, Tantrums & Tears: Strategies for Coping With Conflict and Making Peace at Home

Susan Beekman, Jeanne Holmes Offering effective conflict-resolution techniques for the home, a practical parents' guide presents five strategy styles for coping with problems over chores, homework, bickering, and other daily dilemmas. 35,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Becoming a Love and Logic Parent Facilitator's Guide Audio Cassette (4)

Jim Fay, Foser W. Cline Bring Love and Logic® to the parents in your community. Wouldn't it be great if the parents in your community were on the same page as your school? When you can encourage the home-school connection and promote collaboration, you create a positive atmosphere where everyone wins.  The Becoming a Love and Logic Parent® curriculum is based on the Love and Logic® philosophy. This unique approach unlocks the secrets of successful parenting. Participants in your classes will receive practical, easy-to-use techniques that work – it is not just a lot of theory. Imagine how you'll feel each week as parents report on positive changes in their children's behavior!  This curriculum is designed for you to have immediate success. Teachers, counselors, administrators, parents – all have success teaching this highly beneficial parenting class, even their first time out. We give you carefully crafted, step-by-step instructions for each session you lead. This package is designed so that you can begin teaching immediately. (Additional training is available, but not mandatory. Scroll down for more information.)  This approach helps both the parent and the school promote teamwork and focus on the common goal: better success for the student.  This 12 to 15 hour comprehensive training curriculum provides you with:
• 4 audio cassettes, sturdy 3-ring binder,
• Transparencies (2 sets)
• Love and Logic Solution (2 sets)
• Easy-to-follow Facilitator Guide with step-by-step instructions
• 5 Parent Handbooks for your attendees (in English)
• One “9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom Workbook”

Bee Wize Grade 1

J. Michael Hargrave Bee Wize consists of four lessons that integrate with reading, health, guidance, science, writing and support the Federal mandates for Safe and Drug Free Schools and state mandates for character education. Bee Glue utilizes learning strategies from CRISS, and consists of stories, 8 beliefs that determine behavior, vocabulary, discussion stimulators, creative compositions, facts and information, activities, and teacher directions, reflections and insights.

Bee Wize Grade 2

Bee Wize Grade 3

Bee Wize Grade 4

Bee Wize Grade 5

Bee Your Best: A School Full of Characters

Betts H. Gatewood, Diane S. Senn, Susan C. Bowman Let "Character Ed," the friendly bee, help you and your school staff to provide a highly motivational, comprehensive character education for your elementary school.

Each month, Ed draws one of nine "Bee Words" from the "Honey Pot." He helps children understand the word and how this term is important to good character. Then, each concept is further explored through "Buzz Words" and a wide variety of items, many of which are reproducible. (Grades K-5)

Being a Better Me

Diane M. Yelencsics The series Being a Better Me consists of five volumes of short stories written to assist children between the ages of six through eleven in becoming better people. Nine-year-old Mark is taught a noteworthy lesson within each storyline. The author then poses a challenge to the readers at each chapter's end, encouraging them to incorporate what they have learned into their way of thinking and everyday lives. The entire series provides informative building blocks that serve as the foundation of a child's character development. Diane Yelencsics gives young readers simple, real life scenarios to make them recognize their own individual significance and the impact they have on others.

The Best of Character II

Duane Hodgin

The Best of Character

Duane Hodgin, Ph.D.

Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

Alfie Kohn Just as memorizing someone else's right answers fails to promote students' intellectual development, so does complying with someone else's behavioral expectations fail to help students develop socially or morally. Kohn contrasts the idea of discipline, in which things are done to students to control how they act, with an approach in which we work with students to create caring communities where decisions are made together. Packed with stories from real classrooms around the country, seasoned with humor and grounded in a vision as practical as it is optimistic, this book shows how students are most likely to flourish in schools that have moved toward collaborative problem solving and beyond discipline.

Beyond Rhetoric: A New American Agenda for Children and Families

National Commission on Children This report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the National Commission on Children. The report is prefaced by a statement by the commission chairman, Senator John D. Rockefeller, and an executive summary. The first part of the report discusses issues relating to the development of a national policy on children and families. Chapters in this part concern: the high cost of failure to provide for the needs of America's children; the changing American family; child development; and principles for taking action on behalf of children. The second part proposes an agenda for the 1990s. Chapters in this part concern: ensuring income security; improving children's health; increasing educational achievement; supporting the transition to adulthood; strengthening and supporting families; protecting vulnerable children and their families; making policies and programs work; and creating a moral climate for children. The third part discusses the process of building the necessary commitment for the future of America's children. A series of appendixes presents background tables on the effects of income security policies, projections of program costs, views of interested individuals, and additional related materials. (BC)

The Big "R" Responsibility, Discipline Seminar Workbook

Gene A. Bedley Gene starts with "who left the milk out ?" to bring his audience face to face with the difference between responsibility and control. The seminar includes dozens of practical ideas for teachers to use to implement a program on personal responsibility in the classroom. Seminar includes Self-Management Skills, Model for Change, Ethics vs Rules, Student Code of Ethics, Classroom Management, W.B.R. Program, Goal Setting Strategies, Daily Learning Pledge, 11 Rules to Relate, Classroom Counseling Center, Accountability Partners, and Value Centered Reference Points. You'll leave the seminar with a clear resolve to promote responsibility the foundational value of all values.

The Big "R" Responsibility, Who Left the Milk Out?

Gene A. Bedley Over 180,000 copies sold! One of Gene Bedley's most popular and creative books for homes and schools. The entire publication is packed with practical ideas on how to cultivate and encourage personal responsibility.
The book is full of practical ideas and tools that give kids the power to evaluate and improve themselves in personal responsibility.
Some of the tools include :
• Levels of Responsibility
• 20 Day Goal Cards
• Positive Mental Health Rules
• Self-Manager Contract
• Student-to-Student Recognition
• Rules for Learning
• Rules for Responsibility
• Code of Ethics

The Book of Psychotherapeutic Games: A Review of the Most Popular Games Used in Psychotherapy

Lawrence E. Shapiro, Hennie M. Shore The Book of Psychotherapeutic Games is a unique review of the most popular games used in psychotherapy. It will assist in the use of the best psychotherapeutic games currently available as it details: Background of Each Game; Who Should Use Each Game; General Purpose; Therapeutic Purpose(s); Game Play; Therapeutic Benefits; Theoretical Orientation; Features/Highlights; Game Options' Cross Reference/Comparison

Break It Up: A Teacher's Guide to Managing Student Aggression

Arnold P. Goldstaine Offers step-by-step procedures for establishing a team approach to safely handle student disruptiveness and aggression. The book includes a comprehensive fight management system based on reports of 1,000 episodes of student aggression and its management.

Brick by Brick: Building Respect and Good Character - Spanish DVD, English Teacher's Resource Book

Human Relations Media This series gives young students the tools they need to build respect for themselves, for others and for their environment in the home, school and community.

101. Respecting Yourself  This program gives students a starting point by helping them to gain respect for their own self-worth as well as their own value systems. Students are encouraged to accept the things about themselves that they can't change and to have pride in their uniqueness.
102. Respecting Others  This program explores the simple rule of respecting others—treating other people the way you would want to be treated.
103. Respecting Your World  Caring for the environment is this program's theme. Students are asked to consider how they can show respect for their surroundings and make them better. The program widens students' perspectives from their own homes to their schools, their towns, and their planet.

Brick by Brick: Building Respect and Good Character - VHS, Teacher's Resource Book

Building Character Through Music Elementary Student Song Book

Dr. Wayne Stephens This is a fun and entertaining way to further your character education efforts within your school and a wonderful way to instill the tenets of character in your students. We're offering three versionselementary, middle, and high schoolthat are comprehensive, creative, and proven! Each version features specially selected character traits, one for each month of the school year. Each trait is set to a different style of music that kids enjoy and can relate to. This program is organized by holidays and observance days but is flexible enough to suit your individual classroom or school needs. Each teacher's kit contains a teacher's guide (including the teacher's songbook), a set of reproducible monthly bulletins, and a CD with both vocal and instrumental tracks.

Building Character Through Music Elementary Teacher's Kit (Includes CD and monthly bulletins)

Building Character Through Music Middle School Song Book

Building Character Through Music Middle School Teacher's Kit (includes CD and monthly bulletins)

Building Character Through Service Learning

Kathy Winings This book offers an in-depth look at the integral role service-learning plays in the development of character. It offers insight and practical information on how to connect service-learning with civic, family, or character education. Best practices, helpful theory and 'how to' methods provide a discussion of the importance of service-learning in education and community setting.

Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing

Michele Borba, Ed.D. Gain a new understanding of moral intelligence, and a step-by-step program for its achievement from bestselling author, Michele Borba. In this indispensable book for parents, Borba has created a new break-through in conceptualizing and teaching virtue, character and values under the auspices of a measurable capacity — Moral Intelligence. This book confronts the front-page crisis we now face in our country regarding youth violence, alienation, self-destructive behavior, cold-heartedness, lack of compassion, insensitivity, intolerance and the break down of values. The author provides a new way to understand, evaluate and inspire our kids with the seven essential virtues which comprise moral intelligence.

Building an Intentional School Culture: Excellence in Academics and Character

Charles Elbot, Dave Fulton Building an Intentional School Culture
Transform your school by shaping a culture based on shared values, beliefs, and behaviors.
Based on lessons learned from the authors' work in improving school culture for more than sixty schools across the country, this inspiring guide for school leaders helps create an "intentional school culture" that fosters excellence, builds character, and improves student achievement. The book provides tools, case studies, strategies, and implementation plans for building a strong school culture and offers guidelines for teacher trainings, principal workshops, staff meetings, and district-level use. The authors demonstrate how to:
• Support students' independent and interdependent thinking and behavior
• Foster ethical decision making
• Collaborate with students, parents, and teachers
• Evaluate and monitor a plan to enhance the existing school culture
The authors illustrate how deliberately shaping a school culture cultivates faculty trust, sets the groundwork for raising test scores, and is a critical ingredient in building a successful school.

Bully Busters: A Teacher's Manual for Helping Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders

Dawn Newman-Carlson, Arthur M. Horne, Christi L. Bartolomucci, Dawn A. Newman Emphasizes both control and prevention of bullying behavior. Organized into seven modules * Increasing Awareness of Bullying * Recognizing the Bully * Recognizing the Victim * Taking Charge: Interventions for Bullying Behavior * Assisting Victims: Interventions and Recommendations * The Role of Prevention * Relaxation and Coping Skills. Each module includes a teacher information component and several classroom activities intended to increase student participation in efforts to reduce and prevent bullying, as well as to strengthen the teacher/student relationship.

Bully Busters: A Teacher's Manual for Helping Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders : Grades K-5

Arthur M. Horne, Christi L. Bartolomucci, Dawn Newman-Carlson Emphasizes both control and prevention of bullying behavior. Organized into seven modules * Increasing Awareness of Bullying * Recognizing the Bully * Recognizing the Victim * Taking Charge: Interventions for Bullying Behavior * Assisting Victims: Interventions and Recommendations * The Role of Prevention * Relaxation and Coping Skills. Each module includes a teacher information component and several classroom activities intended to increase student participation in efforts to reduce and prevent bullying, as well as to strengthen the teacher/student relationship.

Bully Free Program: 1st Grade Kit

Allan L. Beane, Ph.D. 1st GRADE KIT
$177.95 ea
The kit includes the following materials:
◦ The Bully Free Classroom by A. Beane
◦ Bully Free Bulletin Boards, Posters & Banners by A. Beane and L. Beane
◦ Bully Free Card Game (based on The Bully Free Classroom)
◦ We Can Get Along: A Child’s Book of Choices by L. Payne
◦ A Leader's Guide to We Can Get Along: A Child’s Book of Choices
◦ Just Because I Am: A Child’s Book of Affirmation by L.Payne
◦ A Leader's Guide to Just Because I Am: A Child’s Book of Affirmation
◦ Don't Laugh at Me by S. Seskin and A. Shamblin
◦ Bully Free Classroom Poster
◦ Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Parents (25 per package)
◦ Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Educators
◦ Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Students (25 per package)
◦ Bully Free Bracelets (25 per package)
◦ Protect Your Child from Bullying by A. Beane

Bully Free Program: 2nd-5th Grade Kit

Allan L. Beane, Ph.D. The 2nd-5th Grade Kit includes the following materials:
$149.95 ea.
◦ The Bully Free Classroom (K-8) by A. Beane
◦ Bully Free Bulletin Boards, Posters and Banners (K-8) by A. Beane and L. Beane
◦ Bully Free Card Game (based on the book, The Bully Free Classroom by A. Beane)
◦ Bully Free Classroom Poster
◦ Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Parents (25 per package)
◦ Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Educators
◦ Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Elementary Students (25 per package)
◦ Bullying—Identify, Cope, Prevent (Grades 3-4) (reproducible resource)
◦ Bully Free Bracelets (25 per package)
◦ Protect Your Child from Bullying by A. Beane
◦ How You can Be Bully Free (For Students—Grades 4-8) by A. Beane
◦ Good-Bye Bully Machine by D. Fox & A. Beane

Bully Free Program: Kindergarten Kit

Allan L. Beane, Ph.D. KINDERGARTEN KIT:
• The Bully Free Classroom by A. Beane
• Bully Free Bulletin Boards, Posters & Banners by A. Beane & L. Beane
• Bully Free Classroom Poster
• Words are Not for Hurting by E. Verdick
• Hands are Not for Hitting by E. Verdick
• Share and Take Turns by C. Meiners
• When I Feel Afraid by C. Meiners
• Understand and Care by C. Meiners
• Respect and Take Care of Things by C. Meiners
• Join In and Play by C. Meiners
• Be Polite and Kind by C. Meiners
• Know and Follow Rules by C. Meiners, M.Ed.
• Talk and Work It Out by C. Meiners
• Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Parents (25 per package)
• Together We Can Be Bully Free Brochure—A Mini Guide for Educators
• Protect Your Child from Bullying by A. Beane

Bully Free Program: Support Materials Kit

Allan L. Beane, Ph.D. The Support Materials Kit includes the following materials:
$390.95 each kit
• Steps to Implementing a Bully Free program by A. Beane (four copies @ $39.95 each)
• Bully Free Zone Poster (six posters @ $6.95 each)
• Establishing a Peers for Peace – Bully Free Club by A. Beane
• School License to Book Files to be placed on the school's website for viewing and/or printing by the school's students, faculty, and parents. The files contain the following books:
◦ Helpful Fact Sheets for Parents by A. Beane
◦ How You Can Be Bully Free (For Students—Grades 4-8) by A. Beane

The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job

Gary Namie Ph.D. Workplace violence may snatch the daily headlines, but outside the spotlight, the pain and degradation of corporate bullying shatters lives nationwide. A landmark book blazing light on one of the business world's dirtiest secrets, The Bully at Work exposes the destructive, silent epidemic that devastates the lives, careers and families of millions. Those being bullied at work feel more than merely overworked and underappreciated. The fear, shame, humiliation and loss of dignity that originate at work can creep into every other aspect of their lives. Bullying is about Work Trauma! At last, there is a way to stop the hurtand stop the bully. Gary and Ruth Namie, pioneers of the Campaign Against Workplace Bullying (bullybusters.org), teach you personal strategies to identify allies, build your confidence, and stand up to your tormentor—or decide when to walk away with your sanity and dignity intact. The Namies' expertise on workplace bullying has been featured in such media outlets as CNN, PBS, NPR, USA Today and The Washington Post.

Bully-Free Issue#1-25

Channing Bete Prepares preteens to be part of the solution to this pervasive problem. Readers build skills that include critical thinking about why bullying happens and how it affects students' sense of self and safety. This workbook also helps them develop nonviolent strategies for resolving conflict, protect themselves and others, and speak out against intimidation. Includes a family activity page that gives children the opportunity to learn more about this issue and promotes family discussion. 12 pages, 8 1/2" x 11". Ages 9-11

Bully-Free Issue#26-49

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Program Implementation Guide Book Copy 1

Jill McDonald and Sally Stoker High school is a particularly challenging environment where student behavior problems—including the bully-victim dynamic—may develop into violent confrontations. Bully-Proofing for High Schools is a must-have resource. Specific approaches teach staff how to decrease the likelihood of violence, empower students, and create an environment where teachers can teach and students can learn. The CD-ROM includes the “School Climate” survey, letters, forms, and worksheets.

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Program Implementation Guide Book Copy 2

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Strategies and Interventions Book Copy 1

Jill McDonald and Sally Stoker High school is a particularly challenging environment, one where student behavior problems—including the bully-victim dynamic—may develop into violent confrontations. Bully Proofing for High Schools is a must-have set that includes specific approaches that teach staff how to decrease the likelihood of violence, empower students, and create an environment where teachers can teach and students can learn. The CD-ROM includes the School Climate survey, letters, forms, and worksheets.

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Strategies and Interventions Book Copy 2

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Student Curriculum Copy 1

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Student Curriculum Copy 2

Bully-proofing your school: A comprehensive approach for middle schools

Marla Bonds This resource offers valuable information about developmental issues unique to middle school students and describes how those issues affect the bully-victim dynamic. Learn how to create a positive climate in which students support one another, distinguish “bullying” from “disagreements,” and avoid power struggles during discipline.

Bully-proofing your school: A comprehensive approach for middle schools - Book

Marla Bonds

Bullying Prevention Handbook: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors

John H. Hoover, Ronald Oliver This handbook provides a comprehensive tool for understanding, preventing, and reducing the day-to-day teasing and harassment referred to as bullying. Effective teaching and counseling models include:

-A comprehensive, step-by-step bullying intervention model that can be implemented school-, agency-, or community-wide,
-Specific strategies that teachers, administrators, and counselors can use when working with bullies and their scapegoats,
-Assessment and evaluation tools for anti-bullying efforts,
-Ways to improve the families of bullies and scapegoats.

Bullying in Schools: What You Need to Know - Copy 1

Paul Langan This book gives students and teachers an excellent guide for handling a bully.

Bullying in Schools: What You Need to Know - Copy 2

Paul Langan This book gives students and teachers an excellent guide for handling a bully.

By My Brother's Side

Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber Tiki and Ronde were each other's best friends. Together from the start, these twins might not have been the strongest or the tallest, but they were fast and worked hard at what they loved. And they loved sports, especially football.

Then one day Tiki badly hurt his knee in a biking accident, and he was sure he'd never be able to play again. Their mother had always told them, "You are each other's best friends. Stick together, believe in yourselves, and you can do anything." They kept her words in their hearts and never gave up.

Based on the childhood of National Football League superstars Ronde and Tiki Barber, this inspiring book about the values of family, hard work, and determination is the story of what it takes to be a champion.

CH.A.D.D. educators manual: An in-depth look at attention deficit disorders from an educational perspective : a project of the CH.A.D.D. National Education Committee

Mary Cahill Fowler Highlights of the Manual: Educational Manifesttions and Perspective; Developmental Manifistations; Core Features; Factors that Compromise Learning; Current Theoretical Perspectives; School-Based Identification and Assessment Protocols; Intervention: Principles and Practices; Behavior Management and Modification; Classroom Organization and Management; Problem-solving Approaches for Designing Interventions; University Affiliated Model Programs; Applying IDEA and Section 504 to students with ADD

CRU (Conflict Resolution) Everybody's Talking: Leader's Guide: Peer Mediation skills for Middle and High School students

CRU Institute Rumors and gossip create a serious conflict between two girls. Student mediators create a structure in which the girls can begin to communicate, understand one another, and reach an amicable agreement. Techniques demonstrated in this show include:
• Using "I" Messages
• Teaching Disputants Restating/I Messages
• What will happen...?
• Exploring Feelings
• Pointing Out Areas of Agreements

CRU (Conflict Resolution) Everyday Conflicts, Creative Solutions

CRU Institute A professionally acted dramatization showing how the Conflict Manager process works on the playground. The video is accompanied by a Leader's Guide which points out, through an annotated transcript, several mediation skills used in the video:
• Active listening
• Using "I" messages
• Dealing with feelings
• Enforce the rules
• Find underlying information
• Balance the power
• What will happen if?

CRU (Conflict Resolution) for Elementary School Conflict Managers

CRU Institute This is an extensive curriculum manual with over 100 pages of material including specific and detailed lesson plans and well explained training procedures. The manual includes handouts for students, program evaluation forms, and instructions for setting up the program in your school. In addition, the manual includes:
• Conflict manager process
• Cultural diversity and conflict
• Communication skills
• Mediation techniques
• Difficult situations
• Being your own mediator
• Brainstorming

CRU (Conflict Resolution) for Elementary School Conflict Managers Copy 2

CRU (Conflict Resolution) for High School Peer Mediators

CRU Institute CRU for High School Peer Mediators
These manuals were developed by experienced mediators who have trained students and faculty in hundreds of schools since 1987. The manuals, each over 200 pages., show you how to teach the sophisticated process of sit-down mediation. Sections on how to set up the program in your school as well as all student handouts and program evaluations are included. In addition, the manual includes:
• Mediation structure and process
• Communication skills
• Cultural diversity and conflict
• Mediation techniques
• Over 40 student role plays
• Trainer's rolling role plays
• Difficult situations
• Being your own mediator

CRU (Conflict Resolution) for the Classroom

CRU Institute Conflict resolution skills for elementary students
A Conflict Resolution program for the K-6 classroom. The 100 page guide includes twelve detailed lesson plans 20-30 minutes long. The program emphasizes negotiation skills, creates awareness and understanding of the process of mediation, and may be used to begin a new way of dealing with classroom conflict.

CRU (Conflict Resolution) for the Classroom Copy 2

CRU Changes - Leader's Guide: Peer Mediation skills for Middle and high school students

CRU Kayla and Isiah are boyfriend-girlfriend. Their relationship is threatened by Isiah's decision to become a serious student and take honors classes. The dramatization includes mediation of the dispute and much more. The topic is intriguing and provocative.
Techniques demonstrated in this show:
• Structuring the process
• Exploring Feelings
• Using 'I' Messages
• What will happen if.....?
• Enforce the rules
• Teaching disputants 'I' Messages
• Teaching disputants restating
• Point out areas of agreement

CRU for Violence Prevention: Mediation Training: Life Skills for the Secondary Classroom

CRU Peer Mediator Training Manuals
CRU for Middle School Peer Mediators / CRU for High School Peer Mediators
These manuals were developed by experienced mediators who have trained students and faculty in hundreds of schools since 1987. The manuals, each over 200 pages., show you how to teach the sophisticated process of sit-down mediation. Sections on how to set up the program in your school as well as all student handouts and program evaluations are included. In addition, the manual includes:
• Mediation structure and process
• Communication skills
• Cultural diversity and conflict
• Mediation techniques
• Over 40 student role plays
• Trainer's rolling role plays
• Difficult situations
• Being your own mediator

CRU for Violence Prevention: Mediation Training: Life Skills for the Secondary Classroom Copy 2

Captain Kind, Kindness and Music CD (Teacher Guide Available under Character Classics)

Tony Salerno Illustrated Hardback book from the 3 piece set (pictured) that also consists of a music CD and Activity Resource book. One of 12 traits featured in the Character Classics series. Ages 5-11. Tunes of Bizet, Dvorak,Bach, Elmenreich, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven.

Caring School Community Class Meetings Kit Lessons for Grades 2-6 and Leadership Materials

Developmental Studies Center The Leader’s Package includes everything that K–6 teachers receive plus a Leadership Guide that provides recommendations and activities that motivate effective school leadership in the implementation of CSC. The package also includes a leader’s calendar, agendas for staff development meetings, and tools for observation and scheduling.
Leadership Guide
Class Meeting Lessons (grades K–1 or 2–6) includes Teacher’s Calendar: Classroom Implementation Guide (grades K–1 and 2–6), CSC Year at a Glance calendar, and CSC Overview
Cross-Age Buddies Activity Book
Homeside Activities (grades K–6)
Schoolwide Community-Building Activities
See Teacher’s Package

The Caring Teacher's Guide to Discipline: Helping Young Students Learn Self-Control, Responsibility, and Respect

Dr. Marilyn E. Gootman This second edition of Marilyn E. Gootman's best-selling book is a comprehensive guide to teaching students to do the right thing. With this insightful and important work, teachers can acquire the skills they need to help students practice self-control, solve problems, use good judgment, and correct their own misbehavior.

You'll learn strategies to: Give students realistic expectations and establish rules for behaviorPrevent and resolve misunderstandings using open communicationDeal with anger (yours or your students')Communicate more effectively in order to prevent or resolve misunderstandingDevelop and use problem-solving techniquesReach students with trauma-and dysfunction-associated behavioral problemsCreate effective partnerships with parents

The Character & Career Connection

Amy R. Murray Todays employers are looking for students who not only have high grades in school, but who also possess good character. This book helps students explore careers and shows how different traits are needed more in certain careers than others. Includes mini posters, parent tips, and reproducible activity sheets. Grades K-5.

Character Building Day by Day: 180 Quick Read-Alouds for Elementary School and Home

Anne D. Mather, Louise B. Weldon, Eric Braun In elementary schools across the country, teachers are expected to provide at least five minutes of character education each day. This book makes it easy to meet that requirement in a meaningful way. It includes 180 character vignettes—five for each of the 36 weeks in the school year—grouped by trait. Each features kids in real-life situations making decisions that reflect their character. Each is short enough to be read aloud; all can be used as starting points for discussion, to support an existing character education program, or as the basis for an independent program. An excellent tool for the classroom or the character-conscious home.

Character Building and Reading Mastery

Sally Keener, Harold Kellog

Character Classics : "Little Larry" Attentiveness

Tony Salerno A title in the Character Classics series, a revolutionary new children's music and character education program. Produced by award-winning and Emmy-nominated artist, Tony Salerno. The Character Classics series is designed to give children a basic foundation for character education through the use of contemporary lyrics set to classical melodies. Many parents, teachers and music teachers have found these an excellent source for introducing their children to classical music while teaching their kids important character traits for life at the same time! This set includes the Sing-A-Story hardcover book "Little Larry ' and teaches children the quality of Attentiveness. Also includes the musical CD with songs about Attentiveness. The book contains all the lyrics from the recording. The third item is the softcover Activity Resource Book to assist children in applying the qualities in their everyday lives.

Character Classics Parent/Leader Guide

Tony Salerno Parent/Leader Guide:
This handbook is a stress free guide that helps parents teach good character. It provides easy to use creative ideas to reinforce positive character qualities in your children. As an invaluable reference tool, it directs parents through each character trait, featuring simple but effective activities such as arts, crafts, games, discussions and journaling

Character Classics Teacher Activity Resource Book: Grades Fifth and Sixth

Tony Salerno Teacher Activity Resource Book:
This 112-page book with reproducible pages is filled with information about the composer, character trait definitions, song lyrics, coloring pages, word scrambles, puzzles, and other fun and exciting activities that help reinforce each character trait.

Character Classics Teacher Activity Resource Book: Grades First and Second

Character Classics Teacher Activity Resource Book: Grades Three and Four

Character Classics Teacher Guide: Grades First and Second

Tony Salerno A Teacher Guide provides easy to follow, grade appropriate character-building lessons and classroom activities that reinforce the character traits and is coordinated across the curriculum areas of: vocabulary, written and oral language, research skills, and reading. Written by a panel of expert teachers, educators and curriculum coordinators, the lessons have been successfully tested in classrooms.

Character Classics Teacher Guide: Grades Five and Six

Character Classics Teacher Guide: Grades Three and Four

Character Counts: Making the Right Moves

Maureen Duran Character Counts teaches young people numerous character traits including commitment, honesty, compatibility, odesty, confidence, patience, courage, perseverance courtesy, respect, determination, responsibility, fairness, self-discipline, forgiveness, humility, trustworthiness, kindness, and truthfulness. Many lifestyle issues are discussed including alcohol and other drug use, premature sex, violence, cheating, etc. Refusal and cessation skills are emphasized. Because young people may have a difficult time realizing how thier decisions affect their future, the manual includes numerous activities that illustrate the positive or negative future effects and consequences of their decisions.

Character Education Book of Plays: Elementary Level

Judy Truesdell Mecca

Character Education Stories

Edited Each of these 32 stories or poems address one or more character traits. Each lesson is designed to happen in a 30-40 minute time frame. Written by a variety of authors, each story has discussion questions and follow-up activities. Grades 1-5.

Character Education Teaching Values for Life, Grades 7-8

Sara Freeman Each of the six building blocks of character is explored through discussions, activities, literature, and projects. This series offers teaching ideas, practical activities, and real-life problem solving that stimulates students character awareness and development.

Character Education, Grade 1

School Specialty Publishing All eight character traits in one book. Activities include; definition of the theme and real-life examples depicting that trait in aciton, reflections on the theme, analysis of situations in which students determine if good character was shown.

Character Education, Grade 2

School Specialty Publishing All eight character traits in one book. Activities include; definition of the theme and real-life examples depicting that trait in action, reflections on the theme, and analysis of situations in which students determine if good character was shown.

Character Education, Grade 3

Character Education, Grade 4

School Specialty Publishing All eight character traits in one book. Activities include; definition of the theme and real-life examples depicting that trait in action, reflections on the theme, analysis of situations in whcih students determine if good character was shown.

Character Education, Grade 5

School Specialty Publishing All eight character traits in one book. Activities include; definition of the theme and real-life examples depicting that trait in action, reflections on the theme, analysis of situations in which students determine if goo character was shown.

Character Education, Grades 3-4

Kathleen Knoblock Children need to learn more than just reading, writing, and arithmetic. They also need to develop the character skills necessary to a happy, successful life. Character Education, Grades 3-4 focuses on the six building blocks of character:trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. This book is filled with teaching ideas, practical activities, and real-life problems that are appropriate for third and fourth graders.

Character Education, Grades 5-6

Sara Freeman Children need to learn more than just reading, writing, and arithmetic. They also need to develop the character skills necessary to a happy, successful life. Character Education, Grades 5-6 focuses on the six building blocks of character:trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. This book is filled with teaching ideas, practical activities, and real-life problems that are appropriate for fifth and sixth graders.

Character Education, Grades K-2

Kathleen Knoblock Children need to learn more than just reading, writing, and arithmetic. They also need to develop the character skills necessary to a happy, successful life. Character Education, Grades K-2 focuses on the six building blocks of character:trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. This book is filled with teaching ideas, practical activities, and real-life problems that are appropriate for primary elementary students.

Character Education, Kindergarten

School Specialty Publishing All eight character traits in one book. Activities include; definition of the theme and real-life examples depicting that trait in action, reflections on the theme, analysis of situations in which students determine if good character was shown.

Character Education-Activity for K to 6

Mclaughlin Peyser Each year more children come to school unprepared to relate appropriately to others and to contribute to a positive school climate. These children seem to have more problems and less ability to cope with the structural environment of the school. Educators tend to agree that many children lack the character traits necessary for healthy, positive growth and development. Many factors contribute to this situation. Family mobility separates people from their extended families; children spend a limited amount of time with their parents or other influential family members; and children often view inappropriately portrayed behaviors on television and in the movies. Schools have identified character education as part of the solution. This book offers character education activities for the classroom than can be integrated into the school day. It presents 52 activities that can be included in social studies, health, and language arts lessons. The activities are designed for counselors, social workers, and other student services personnel to use when working with individuals, small groups, and classroom guidance. Activities focus on responsibility, good citizenship, compassion, cooperation, and character formation.

Character Education: 43 Fitness Activities for Community Building

Donald R. Glover, Leigh Ann Anderson Improve cooperation, problem solving, sporting behavior, and empathy in the physical education setting.
Meet standards 5, 6, and 7 of the NASPE standards.
Learn effective tools for class management.
Gain assessment techniques for demonstrating achievement of standards.

Foster emotional and social connections in physical education classes with the activities presented in Character Education: 43 Fitness Activities for Community Building. This book takes the idea and practice of team building to a higher level while helping teachers meet National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) standards in physical education.

Don Glover, a widely known authority on community-building and team-building strategies, shares his insights using an easy-to-understand approach. Youll find more than 40 carefully crafted and field-tested activities designed to help small groups of students develop social and psychological skills with their peers in the physical activity setting. Students will practice giving praise, offering suggestions, solving problems, and working together. At the same time, students will learn character education values and build self-esteem through the proven power of feelings of belonging and ownership. Developing these traits in your students provides you with powerful class-management tools and helps you meet NASPE standards 5, 6, and 7, which emphasize responsible personal and social behavior; respect for differences; and understanding of the opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction inherent in physical activity.

The book includes the following teacher-friendly features:

More than 40 illustrated, field-tested team fitness activities for community building
Key terms and chapter highlights at the beginning of each chapter
Reproducible sample forms for introducing and implementing portfolio assessment, such as self-evaluation forms, parent and peer evaluation forms, fitness goal maps, sample rubrics, and goal and baseline sheets

Character Education: The Ladder To Success, Grade Level 4-6

Leland Graham, Isabelle McCoy Each section of the book on character traits begins with a definition of the character trait, followed by a variety of related activities for your students. Follow the tips throughout the book for using the pages, or adapt the materials. Each section has an What is page, Inspiration poster, brainstorming worksheets, literature connection, famous quotations, critical thinking, and a bulletin-board set.

Character Fun : 20 Character-Building Games & Activities for Grades 3-7

Marianne B. Vandawalker M.Ed. Twenty different games and activities that introduce character-related vocabulary, differentiate between positive and negative character traits, and promote decision-making skills. Each game can be completed in one class period. The game kit includes a leader's guide with detailed instructions for each game plus the necessary materials to play each game. Common, easy-to-find, supplementary materials are required in some instances. Students will delight when playing Pyramid Character Building or relating good and rotten foods to positive and negative character traits. Each exciting game is a learning experience that will make students look forward to the next lesson. Playing these games help students develop the skills of listening, following directions, and sportsmanship. A fun way to teach an important topic.

Character Lessons for Life: 52 Weekly Proven Character Development Lessons

Gene Bedley Contents include: What Matters Most, Personal Time Line, 3 Questions that Determine Priorities, Creating Ethical Communities, Personal Code of Ethics, 11 Rules to Relate, Ethic Forum Issues, Advantages of Throwing Away the Shovel, Power of Practiced Suggestions, Respect Test, Speaker/Listener Pair & Share, Respect in a Relationship, Weekly Respect Ideas, Responsible Person Attributes, Rules for Responsible Students, Personal Responsibility Code of Ethics, 30 Character Campaign Posters, Respect Programs, Broken Windows, Assumptions, Power of the Heart Signals, Life's 5 Major Tests, plus many more of Life's Greatest Character Lessons.

Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

Thomas Lickona Don't Let Our Kids Flunk Life

The novelist Walker Percy once observed, "Some people get all As but flunk life." Succeeding in life takes character. In Character Matters, award-winning psychologist-educator Thomas Lickona offers more than 100 practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.

Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its 10 essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. He lays out a blueprint for building these core virtues through a partnership shared by families, schools, and communities. Chapters include:

14 strategies that help kids succeed academically while building characterMore than a dozen character-building discipline strategies20 ways to prevent peer cruelty and promote kindness10 ways to talk to teens about sex, love, and character

The culmination of a lifetime's work in character education, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.

Character Under Construction: Character Building Actvities & Reproducibles for Grades K-6

Donna B. Forrest Unfortunately, we can no longer assume that children will understand and honor the concepts of responsibility, respect, courage, kindness, and other positive charcter traits. This book offers a wonderfully unique approach to help students to better comprehend and practice these traits which are fundamental for success in school and throughout life. It offers one-of-a-kind detailed lesson plans (some of which include bulletin board ideas), parent letters, children's literature ideas, and reproducibles. It also features daily character-building statements that can be used throughout the school year. This book works great in conjunction with Donna's other book, 180 Days of Character.

Character-Building Classroom Guidance

Arden Martenz Ten four-session units that will keep students motivated. Topics include: relationships, self-discipline, honesty, citizenship, responsibility, respect, leadership, fairness, trustworthiness, and caring. Grades 4-8.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen It's like homemade chicken soup that warms the chill and heals the ill. This collection of 101 stories is based on the belief that true testimonies of goodness and loving transformations can nourish us to the bone and heal the cynicism in our hearts. Indeed, most every story seeps in deeply. It's hard not to shed a tear of gratitude, feeling thrilled to have been touched and soothed so easily. Some of the authors are famous, such as Dan Millman, who writes an exquisite vignette on "Courage," and Gloria Steinem, who writes of "The Royal Knights of Harlem." Many, however, have a short, simple story to tell about an event, a person, an everyday miracle that exemplifies the best of the human spirit. —Gail Hudson

The Children's Book of Heroes

William J. Bennett William Bennett and Michael Hague, the team that brought us the national bestseller The Children's Book of Virtues, have once again collaborated to create The Children's Book of Heroes, a beautifully illustrated celebration of heroic deeds, both real and fictional, that will delight and inspire millions of young children and their parents.

"We all need a hero or two to help us stand fast and think right," says William J. Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues, the #1 bestseller that millions of American families turn to for moral inspiration. With excerpts chosen for young children, this new treasury presents splendid tales of the valor and indomitable spirit that are a lasting testament to our cherished values.

Jackie Robinson stands fast on the playing field — and his strength of character inspires a nation. David slays Goliath — and his faith and bravery give hope to underdogs everywhere. A little boy goes in search of an angel — and finds one who guards him day and night: his own mother. From Abraham Lincoln and Mother Teresa to warriors on the battlefield, real moms and dads, and even young girls and boys, here are worthy and heroic figures all kids can look up to and emulate.

The Children's Book of Heroes is a celebration of the endurance, sacrifice, courage, and compassion that characterize truly heroic deeds.

The Children's Book of Virtues

William J. Bennett The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's number-one bestseller; The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together:

With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as well as Native American and African folklore, The Children's Book of Virtues brings together timeless stories and poems from around the world.

The stories have been chosen especially for a young audience to help parents introduce to their children the essentials of good character: Courage, Perseverance, Responsibility, Work, Self-discipline, Compassion, Faith, Honesty, Loyalty, and Friendship.

Lavishly illustrated by the well-known artist Michael Hague, these wonderful stories and the virtues they illustrate come to life on these pages.

The Children's Book of Virtues is an enduring treasury of literature and art that will help lead young minds toward what is noble and gentle and fine.

Choices That Change Lives: 15 Ways to Find More Purpose, Meaning, and Joy

Hal Urban Hal Urban, author of the much-loved bestsellers Life's Greatest Lessons and Positive Words, Powerful Results, gives us his third book of inspirational and practical wisdom on leading a more meaningful and more joyful life. With Choices That Change Lives, Hal reminds us that our lives are the result of our choices and the most important choices we make become our character traits, the ones that lead to fulfillment and peace of mind. He illuminates fifteen character traits that help us more fully develop our capacity to live rich and rewarding lives. He assures us that it's never too late to change, to break the chains of self-defeating attitudes and habits, and challenges us to dig a little deeper — to grow in such qualities as humility, patience, empathy, and courage — and to renew ourselves daily.

Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs

Dick Schaefer

Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom

David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Edythe Johnson Holubec Cooperative learning processes have been rediscovered and are being used throughout the country on every level. The basic elements of cooperative goal structure are positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, and cooperative skills. The teacher's role in structuring cooperative learning situations involves clearly specifying lesson objectives, placing students in productive learning groups and providing appropriate materials, clearly explaining the cooperative goal structure, monitoring students, and evaluating performance. For cooperative learning groups to be productive, students must be able to engage in the needed collaborative skills. Cooperative skills and academic skills can be taught simultaneously. The implementation of cooperative learning needs to be coupled with the implementation of collaborative professional support groups among educators. Both the success of implementation efforts and the quality of life within most schools depend on teachers and other staff members cooperating with each other. Support for the program takes as careful structuring and monitoring as does cooperative learning.

Class Meetings That Matter Grades 6-8

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program Schools across the country are using the world-renowned Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) to reduce bullying and create a safe and caring school environment. Class meetings are a core part of this award-winning program—and Class Meetings That Matter is an ideal component for any school using OBPP. Developed by the authors of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, this easy-to-use manual provides almost an entire year's worth of engaging, age-appropriate, and grade-specific ideas and topics to conduct meaningful class meetings.
Topic categories include:
• building a positive classroom climate
• identifying feelings
• communication
• hot spots
• peer relationships
• respecting differences and promoting acceptance
• serving the community/reaching outward
• using current events

Class Meetings That Matter Grades K-5

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program Schools across the country are using the world-renowned Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) to reduce bullying and create a safe and caring school environment. Class meetings are a core part of this award-winning program—and Class Meetings That Matter is an ideal component for any school using OBPP. Developed by the authors of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, this easy-to-use manual provides almost an entire year 's worth of engaging, age-appropriate, and grade-specific ideas and topics to conduct meaningful class meetings.
Topic categories include:
• building a positive classroom climate
• identifying feelings
• communication
• hot spots
• peer relationships
• respecting differences and promoting acceptance
• serving the community/reaching outward
• using current events

Collaborative problem solving: A step-by-step guide to creating educational solutions

Elizabeth Ann Knackendoffel Team or group approaches have long been a valued part of the special service professions and have become increasingly popular structures for addressing highly diverse issues in schools. The term collaborative teaming seems to embody this concept of working together. Knackendoffel, Robinson, Deshler,

and Schumaker (1992) described collaborative teaming as an ongoing process whereby educators with different areas of expertise work together voluntarily to create solutions to problems that are impeding students' success, as well as to carefully monitor and refine those solutions. In short, the major goal of collaborative teaming is to improve services to students whose needs are not being met satisfactorily when professionals act alone rather than in concert with others.

The most productive collaborative relationships are characterized by mutual trust, respect, and open communication. Central to these relationships are the following beliefs:
1. All participants in the collaborative relationship must have equal status.
2. All educators can learn better ways to teach all students.
3. Educators should be involved continuously in creating and delivering instructional innovations.
4. Education improves when educators work together rather than in isolation. Effective collaborative relationships involve people who see themselves on the same side, working toward positive outcomes for students.

The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action

Cathryn Berger Kaye his book presents service learning—its importance, elements, steps, and challenges—within a curricular context. It features chapters on a variety of topics complete with inspiring quotations, background information, activities, real-life examples, and ideas that have worked for other teachers. Special "Bookshelf" sections highlight and describe nearly 300 books that offer teachable moments about service learning, responsibility, caring, and helping—as well as ways to encourage discussion and make the lesson last. Recommended for K-12 teachers and administrators, college and university faculty, youth group leaders, government agencies and nonprofits, after-school programs, and youth. Includes more than 20 reproducible handout masters. Chapters include: AIDS Education and Awareness, Animals in Danger, Community Safety, Elders, The Environment, Gardening, Hunger and Homelessness, Immigrants, Literacy, Social Change, and Special Needs and Disabilities.

The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work: A Complete Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and Co-Workers

Margaret R. Kohut According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), more than two million workers in the United States alone are victims of workplace violence each year, leading to millions of dollars lost in employee productivity. Many people believe that bullying occurs only among school-age children and fail to acknowledge the presence and devastating effects of bullying in the workplace. It is time that this destructive issue be addressed and resolved; however, you may be asking yourself how to accomplish such a task. The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work will provide you with valuable information on the topic, as well as unique solutions to the problem. In this new book, you will learn how to identify the problem of workplace bullying, how to define the workplace bully, how to identify characteristics of a targeted employee, how to identify pathological characteristic of workplace bullies, how to bust bullying, and how to bully-proof your employees. This book also discusses the indicators of a toxic workplace, the causes of workplace bullying, reasons why workplace bullying is perpetuated and unchallenged by other employees, the connection between bullying and lethal workplace violence, and the legal aspects of bullying. Furthermore, you will learn about mob bullying, the effects of bullying on the target, and the effects of bullying on the organization. The author also covers such special topics as workplace bullying in federal, state, and local organizations; the United States armed forces; Fortune 500 companies; and medical organizations, as well as reverse bullying by employees who inappropriately assert harassment and bullying by their superiors even though they have been fairly disciplined for sub-standard job performance. This book goes one step further and provides solutions to end workplace violence, anti-bullying pledges, and examples of zero-tolerance bullying policies. If you are a manager, a supervisor, or even just an employee and you suspect bullying is occurring, you need to read this book. Whether bullying is already happening or you want to be sure it never does, The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work will provide you with everything you need to know to create a better working environment.

Complete Student Assistance Program Handbook: Techniques and Materials for Alcohol/Drug Prevention and Intervention in Grades 7-12

Barbara Sprague Newsam A comprehensive, nuts-and-bolts guide to the implementation and daily operation of a broad range of student assistance programming in grades 7-12. Includes 3 complete group curricula and sample policies, letters, assessment forms, informational handouts, and more. Emphasizes practical techniques for working effectively with students, teachers, parents, administrators, the school board and the community.

Conflict Management Training Activities: Promoting Cooperative Learning & Conflict Resolution in Middle & High Schools

Don L. Sorenson When your middle and high school students learn effective conflict management skills, your classroom will become a more peaceful and productive environment. Academic achievement can be improved when students work together cooperatively on certain tasks. For cooperative learning to be effective, students need to become skillful in communicating, trusting, working together, and managing conflicts. Print materials needed to implement the activities are read-to-use and reproducible. These activities can be used for classroom guidance or as training activities for a conflict management or mediation program.

Connected and Respected (Volume 1): Lessons from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, Grades K-2

Ken Breeding PhD, Jane Harrison This elementary curriculum is based on the nationally recognized Resolving Conflict Creatively Program on conflict resolution and social and emotional learning. The book contains 16 lessons per grade level focused on five themes: Making Connections, Emotional Literacy, Caring and Effective Communication, Cultural Competence and Social Responsibility, and Conflict Management and Responsible Decision-Making. Each lesson also includes connection to children's literature and a listing of major curriculum standards that are addressed in the lesson. The lessons in this volume are specifically geared for students in K-2 classrooms.

Connected and Respected (Volume 2): Lessons from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, Grades 3 - 5

Jane Harrison, Ken Breeding PhD This elementary curriculum is based on the nationally recognized Resolving Conflict Creatively Program on conflict resolution and social and emotional learning. The book contains 16 lessons per grade level focused on five themes: Making Connections, Emotional Literacy, Caring and Effective Communication, Cultural Competence and Social Responsibility, and Conflict Management and Responsible Decision-Making. Each lesson also includes connection to children's literature and a listing of major curriculum standards that are addressed in the lesson. The lessons in this volume are specifically geared for students in grades 3-5.

Connecting Character to Conduct: Helping Students Do the Right Things

Roberta Richin, Richard Banyon, Francine Banyon, Marc Stein, Rita Stein The decisions today=s students make ripple outward to their immediate family and school community; some affecting society in the form of academic underachievement and school violence. How can we help students make the right decisions and do the right things?

Test preparation and academic rigor alone cannot help our students learn well. Metal detectors and surveillance equipment alone cannot keep schools safe. Learning and safety, however, are inextricably connected to the fundamentals of character and conduct. When we help students make the connection between character and conduct, we begin to offer them a safe environment conducive to learning.

In Connecting Character to Conduct: Helping Students Do the Right Things, the authors illustrate how to connect character, conduct, and your school=s curriculum. By adopting the principles of respect, impulse control, compassion, and equity, the school communityCincluding bus drivers, cafeteria workers, students, parents, teachers, and principalsCcan promote safety and learning inside and beyond the school walls. These guiding principles are not an add-on to an already full curriculum. Through their connection to moral development, language arts, systems, citizenship, and discipline, they are already part of a standards-driven curriculum and instructional program.

The authors, with expertise as classroom teachers, administrators, counselors, and psychologists, show you how students at all grade levels succeed and can learn to do the right things. Our students depend on us to help them learn and stay safe. Their future, and ours, depends on how well we succeed.

Coping With Crisis: A Quick Reference

Scott Poland, Jami S. McCormick From the first moments following a crisis to the aftermath, this handbook's easy-to-use checklists detail what you need to know, what you need to do, and who should do it. Whether or not your school already has a crisis response plan in place, this reference helps guarantee that everyone will be on the same page.

Coping With Crisis: A Quick Reference

Scott Poland, Jami S. McCormick

Counseling Toward Solutions: A Practical Solution-Focused Program for Working With Students, Teachers and Parents

Linda Metcalf Step by step, Counseling Toward Solutions shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occur rather than focusing on the problem or what caused it. This approach— called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy— is often used by private counselors and therapists and is now being applied in the schools with great success.

Creating Peace, Building Community — Teacher's Guide, Grade 7

Ph.D. Judith Bachay, II James A. Burke This Teacher’s Guide is organized according to five main concepts: building community, pro-social skills, anger management, conflict and social responsibility. The lessons can be infused across interdisciplinary curricula, or used for teaching advisement.
The lessons progress from classroom climate/community building to acquiring and integrating knowledge. Students continue to build on this knowledge, extending, refining, and using it meaningfully. The lessons integrate the subject areas to provide an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to learning. The lessons provide adolescents with the opportunity to experience higher-order thinking, explore critical reflection, and challenge unexamined attitudes about self and others in a safe and caring learning community. Respect and peace are developed through implementation of the Rules for Fighting Fair.

Creating the Peaceable School: A Comprehensive Program for Teaching Conflict Resolution

Richard J. Bodine, Donna K. Crawford, Fred Schrumpf An increasing number of schools are implementing conflict resolution programs to teach youth the skills needed to resolve differences without violence. The authors of the "Creating a Peaceable School" program envision a peaceable school where the following five qualities identified by Kreidler (1984) are present: cooperation, communication, tolerance, positive emotional expression, and conflict resolution. The "Creating a Peaceable School" program is organized around six skill areas. The program contains a number of activities and strategies to be used in whole class discussions, learning center work, and class meetings to help students develop a knowledge base and acquire the skills critical to peaceful conflict resolution.

While the classroom teacher is the key player in providing the learning opportunities required to create a peaceable environment in the school and in modeling the behaviors expected of a peacemaker, every adult in the school environment-principal, subject specialist, counselor, social worker, psychologist, secretary, supervisor, and so on-is a potential teacher of the concepts and behaviors of peace. The authors contend that the broadest goals of the "Creating a Peaceable School" program are realized when the program is applied consistently on a school-wide basis, building on knowledge and skills each year as students progress from grade level to grade level.

Creative Conflict Resolution

William J. Kreidler Over 20 conflict resolution techniques with examples and more than 200 class-tested activities and games offer constructive responses to your students' problem behavior. Includes hints for resolving your own conflicts with associates.

Creative Partnerships for Prevention: Using the Arts and Humanities to Build Resiliency in Youth

National Endowment for the Arts Providing information on the important role that the arts and humanities can play in prevention efforts, this document offers several activities that draw upon the arts and humanities to increase young people's resiliency. Resiliency refers to children's ability to successfully adapt and develop in healthy ways, despite exposure to risk and adversity. Building resiliency is not something that adults do to or for youth. Rather, it is the process of providing a caring environment, creating opportunities for young people to contribute to their communities, offering positive alternatives for free time, and helping young people make a successful and healthy transition into adulthood. The arts and humanities activities provided in this guide are designed to provide readers with ideas for creating their own innovative learning and skill-building activities that strengthen students' protective factors and help reduce the likelihood that they will become involved with drugs or alcohol. These activities are for teachers, youth-workers, parents, artists and others who interact with young people both in school and during the non-school hours over an extended period of time. Specifically, the activities incorporate creative activities (murals, journal writing, film and video projects, storytelling, dramatic presentations, dances, and recitals) with other efforts involving school community programs. The book includes guidelines for developing creative school community partnerships, as well as general information on the positive effects of creative activities on child and adolescent development.

Critical Issues: Readings for Thinking & Writing

Ann Redpath, David Heath Critical Issues: Readings for Thinking & Writing - It's primary purpose is to get students reading and writing about topics that matter to them, reflecting on what they have written, supporting their ideas, and then writing some more. Topics include: HIV/AIDS; Alcohol and other Drugs; Divorce; Self-Esteem; Suicide and Depression; Teenage Pregnancy

Critical Thinking That Empowers Us to Choose Non-Violent Life Skills

Julia A. Davis Critical Thinking That Empowers Us To Choose Non-Violent Life Skills is a supplementary text for students in grades 6-9 that is being used in health, social studeies, and language arts classes as well as advisory periods, life-skills courses, and exploratory courses in schools throughout the country. This text is based on interviews with incarcerated children who have committed acts of violence. In these interviews, our goal was to isolate the thinking patterns of the violent offenders and make suggestions for addressing these thinking patterns in the school curriculum.

Critters with Character Lesson Plans - Grades 5-6

NAHEE Critters with Character Lesson Plans™ Sets
Today more than ever, teachers and other educators are looked upon to help shape not only good students but also good citizens. Research indicates that Americans rank “teaching children values and discipline” highest among issues important to school reform. What better way of teaching children the fundamentals of good character than with one of their all-time favorite topics: animals!

Critters with Character contains 30 teacher-reviewed, ready-to-use lesson plans. Whole-class games, activities, and worksheets reinforce core values—kindness, compassion, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility, and integrity—with special emphasis on proper pet care, respecting wildlife and natural habitats, and safety around dogs. Perfect for classroom teachers and humane educators.

Critters with Character Lesson Plans - K-2

Critters with Character Lesson Plans - Middle School

Crow Boy with Teacher Resource Guide

Taro Yashima "A shy mountain boy in Japan leaves his home at dawn and returns at sunset to go to the village school. Pictures and text of moving and harmonious simplicity."—Saturday Review. Caldecott Honor Book. Full-color illustrations.

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress - Copy 1

Nancy E. Willard, Karen Steiner Online communications can be cruel and vicious. They take place 24/7. Damaging text and images can be widely disseminated and impossible to fully remove. There are emerging reports of youth suicide, violence, and abduction related to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. In this book,the author provides school counselors, administrators, teachers and parents with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It covers challenging issues that occur as students embrace the Internet and other digital technologies such as: *Sending offensive, harassing messages *dissing someone or spreading nasty rumors online *Disclosing someone's intimate personal information *Breaking into someone's e-mail account and sending damaging messages under that person's name *Excluding someone from an online group *Using the Internet to intimidate The book includes detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal devices, including cell phones. Appendices contain reproducible assessment and program forms, as well as parent and student handouts.

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress - Copy 2

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress - Copy 3

Daily Character Education Activities: Grade Level-2-3

Becky Daniel-White What does it mean to be a good citizen? Why do I have to share? How can I stand up for something all by myself? Help your students understand the answers to these question and more through brief, daily instruction and reinforcement. Guide your students from young learners to more effective citizens. This resource contains: daily lessons; literature selections; interactive role plays; discussion questions; reproducible activities.

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Daily Character Education Activities: Grades 4-5

Becky Daniel-White 180 Lessons for each day of the school year. These lessons include activities to build home-school connections.

Death from Child Abuse... and No One Heard

Eve Krupinski, Dana Weikel Part I of the book is the powerful true story of a young Florida girl's death from abuse at the hands of her mother's boyfriend, with the acquiescence of the mother. It is an intimate picture of this tragedy, largely told from the perspective of the child.

Part II was extensively updated and revised in 2002. It is a comprehensive but concise guide to understanding and confronting child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and dating violence. It has concrete advice for parents and young people on building healthy relationships.

Readers are often deeply moved and motivated by this book. It enjoys a great popularity with young people and is highly valued by many educators and professional trainers.

The Definitive Middle School Guide: A Handbook for Success

Imogene Forte, Sandra Schurr, Jan Keeling With the help of this series, each and every student will be given the tools that will lead to a lifetime of academic success. Building upon a foundation of good study habits and tips for learning, content area-skills are taught and reviewed. This series is a handy reference for homework assignments, test preparation, and basic skills review. 240 pages

Developing Character For Classroom Success

Charlie Abourjilie, Ginny Turner Popular teacher, coach, and the former Coordinator of North Carolina's State Character Education Initiative, Charlie Abourjilie knows how tough it is to teach character at the secondary level. He also knows it can be done—and proves it every day. Using Charlie's model and ideas, you can experience similar success.

Developing Character in Students

Dr Philip Fitch Vincent As popular today as ever! Our best-selling primer—now in its 2nd edition! Used by Dr. Vincent in his workshops, this is the seminal character education primer that has led the way for thousands of teachers and school districts across the country! This guide emphasizes five specific elements:
• Rules & Procedures Cooperative Learning
• Teaching for Thinking Quality Literature
• Service Learning
Softcover, 6x9, 174 pages

Different Like Me: A Book for Teens Who Worry About Their Parent's Use of Alcohol/Drugs

Evelyn Leite, Pamela Espeland Written specifically for teen, this book looks at life with parents who abuse alcohol and/or other drugs. The authors begin by explaining just what chemical dependence is and its effects. They make it clear that people who abuse alcohol or other drugs have the disease of chemical dependence; that it's not a teen's fault that his or her parens are sick; and that feelings of guilt, confusion, and fear are common in this situation. Practical suggestions, sound advice,and solid resources let teens know that they are not alone and point the way to feeling better about their families and themselves.

Discipline Strategies & Solutions

Gene Bedley National Educator of the Year. Gene Bedley has trained thousands of educators over the years through his popular National Seminars on Discipline and the Difficult Child, The Big "R" Responsibility, The Respect Factor, Character Centered Classrooms, the 5 P's of Raising Responsible Kids, and Values in Action! He is known for his practical and powerful ideas that are all classroom proven and tested.

Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher

Julia G. Thompson This practical, hands-on resource is packed with tested tips, techniques, tools, and activities such as "27 Power-Packed Time-Management Tips for Students," "Monitoring On the Run: 20 Quick Techniques," "Missing Work Reminder List," and "50 Sponge Activities to Keep Students Engaged in Learning All Period Long." Includes over 50 ready-to-use-or-adapt forms, checklists and letters.

Discipline With Love and Logic Resource Guide #1

Jim Fay, Foster W. Cline The Discipline with Love and Logic Resource Guide serves as a reference for the concepts needed for teaching and discipline. You'll find articles and informational summaries plus activities for reflection for group mentoring and discussion.

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Jim Fay, Foster W. Cline

Discipline With Love and Logic Teacher Training Course: Taking Control of the Classroom VHS-Tapes 2 and 3

Jim Fay, David Funk Available for the first time in paperback.

Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximize classroom learning time.

Discover why Love and Logic works in the school environment and understand the psychological reasons for its effectiveness.

Jim Fay and David Funk's truly positive approach and time-tested ideas and strategies will empower teachers to effectively manage classroom dynamics while bringing the joy back to teaching.

Discipline With Love and Logic Teacher Training Course: Taking Control of the Classroom VHS-Tapes 3 and 4

Discipline With Love and Logic Teacher Training Course: Taking Control of the Classroom VHS-Tapes 5 and 6 Set 1

Discipline With Love and Logic Teacher Training Course: Taking Control of the Classroom VHS-Tapes 5 and 6 Set 2

Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Problem-by-Problem Survival Guide

Randall S. Sprick Proven solutions to 42 common school behavior problems and practical techniques for motivating and managing teens, including how to control talking back or swearing...incomplete assignments...fighting...cheating... smoking or drug use...violence or property destruction...failure to follow directions...and more.

Discover the possibilities...Leading Your Own Life

Sacramento County Office of Education A Character Development Curriculum developed through a collaborative effort of the Educational Programs Department, Special Education Department, Training, Development & Research Department of the Sacramento County Office of Education. This book is about you—it is about your character, about the things that are i mportant to you. It is based on a book by Stephen R. Covey called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. You will learn about communicating, listening, being responsible, planning, organizing, getting along with others, and taking time to take care of yourself.

Discovering Gifts in Middle School: Learning in a Caring Culture Called Tribes

Jeanne Gibbs This new book motivates and supports middle level schools to make the full range of young adolescents developmental growth and learning needs the over-riding focus of the whole school community. The author presents a lively synthesis of a wealth of research studies and effective practices, which underlie the Tribes Learning Community developmental approach. The major emphasis on middle level schools becoming responsive to the contextual basis of adolescent development leads not only to greater achievement and success for students but a new spirit, energy and the discovery of gifts throughout the whole school community. The book contains 440 pages, 140 active learning strategies, an extensive bibliography, resource section and index. 2001.

Don't Give Me That Attitude!: 24 Rude, Selfish, Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them Copy 1

Michele Borba Ed.D.

• Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things go his way?
• Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day?
• Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to do chores?
• Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems?
• Do you feel you’re running a hotel instead of a home?
• Are you starting to feel like your child’s personal ATM machine?

What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid. In her newest book, Don’t Give Me That Attitude! parenting expert Michele Borba offers you an effective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic, attitude.
If you have a child who is arrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding, domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible, jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded, noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative, ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!

Don't Give Me That Attitude!: 24 Rude, Selfish, Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them Copy 2

Michele Borba Ed.D.

Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays!: The Children's Anti-Stress Book - Copy 1

Adolph Moser The Emotional Impact Series...

In this very informative and highly entertaining handbook for children, Dr. Adolph Moser offers practical approaches and effective techniques to help young people deal with stress.

Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays!: The Children's Anti-Stress Book - Copy 2

The Doorbell Rang with Teacher Resource Guide

Pat Hutchins Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. It should be plenty for her two children. But then the doorbell rings—and rings and rings.Each ring of the doorbell brings more friends to share the delicious cookies Ma has made."Refreshing, enjoyable and unpredictable."—School Library Journal. Also available in a Spanish-language edition, Llaman a la puerta.

Drawing Together to Build Character

Marge Heegaard This art therapy book helps children learn and display the important character values of kindness, respectfulness, responsibility, honesty, fairness, and gratitude.

Drawing Together to Develop Self-Control

Marge Eaton Heegaard An art therapy book for kids with controllable behavioral problems.

Drug Danger: In the Body

Rainbow

Drugs & Alcohol Attention Grabbers

Nimco These power packed Attention Grabbers are full of unique and educational presentations to assist in Drug & Alcohol Prevention * Minimum preparation time is required to present each scenario * Each illustration will grab the attention and interest of all ages * Every skit or presentation is explained in complete detail, with extended lesson suggestions * Intrigue, education, and startling facts will make this a necessary teaching aid for your prevention and educational programs * It is a wonderful resource for motivational speakers * Attention Grabbers are a stand-alone guide or the perfect companion to your prevention program * Includes 30 Attention Grabber Activities * For All Ages * Great for Red Ribbon Week!

Drugs in the Schools: Preventing Substance Abuse

Center for Civic Education Students examine the problem of drug and alcohol abuse in a hypothetical middle school, in their communities, and in the nation. This program can be used to fulfill state drug education program requirements and those of the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act.

Educating Hearts and Minds: A Comprehensive Character Education Framework

Dr. Edward F. DeRoche, Dr. Mary M. Williams This book provides a comprehensive framework to help teachers, administrators and parents organize character education programmes.

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Thomas Lickona Dr. Lickona's twelve-point program offers practical strategies designed to create a working coalition of parents, teachers, and communities in the interest of building character into the lives of young people today.

The Effective Teacher Part 2

Harry K. Wong How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher
There Is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement
Part 2:The First Days of School

The Effective Teacher Part 3

Harry K. Wong How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher
There Is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement
Part 3: Discipline

The Effective Teacher Part 4

Harry K. Wong How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher
There Is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement Part 4: Procedures & Routines

The Effective Teacher Part 5

Harry K. Wong How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher
There Is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement Part 5: Cooperative Learning and Culture

The Effective Teacher Part 6

Harry K. Wong How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher
There Is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement Part 6: Lesson Mastery

The Effective Teacher Part 7

Harry K. Wong How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher
There Is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement Part 7: The Professional Educator

The Effective Teacher Part 8

Harry K. Wong How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher
There Is Only One Way to Improve Student Achievement Part 8: Positive Expectations

Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators: Building Strong School Communities Through Timeless Values

Clifton L. Taulbert The author’s inspirational stories demonstrate how to implement the Eight Habits in your own life, and provide strategies for applying each habit in your classroom and school.

Elementary Perspectives 1: Teaching Concepts of Peace and Conflict

William J. Kreidler

Elementary School Guide to Character Education

Sadie Allran Broome Elementary School Guide to Character Education
by Steve Dixon (2001, Character Dev. Group, 10.95)
A catalyst to create a new character ed program, or to invigorate an old one. It shows how consistently applied rules and procedures help students become more respectful and responsible. You will find tips on discovering the joy of teaching and becoming proactive in your approach to a safe, orderly school. [6” x 9”...120 pages]

Elephant in the Living Room: The Children's Book

Marion H. Typpo, Jill M. Hastings An illustrated story to help children understand and cope with the problem of alcoholism or other drug addiction in the family.

Empathy Counts: Play-2-Learn Dominoes Grades

Franklin Learning Systems Empathy Counts
A Play-to-Learn Dominoes Game
Give kids an opportunity to walk in someone else's shoes. By playing this lively game of dominoes, students develop the capacity to understand the feelings of others. Before each turn, they draw a card from one of four decks—Friendship; Activities and Hobbies; All About Myself; and At School. As they respond to questions presented on the cards, they begin to understand the concept of empathy and the part it plays in lasting friendships, family relationships, and everyday social interaction.
Because empathy is a complex trait, the game takes an incremental approach, teaching basic skills first and then moving on to more complex ideas. The instructions offer three modes of play, each appropriate for a different age group. For 2 to 5 players. Grades 2 to 7.

Encyclopedia of School Humor: Icebreakers, Classics, Stories, Puns & Roasts for All Occasions

P. Susan Mamchak, Steven R. Mamchak

Establishing a Peers for Peace Bully Free Club

This student-centered booklet is designed to empower bystanders and others as they work to make their school bully free. 67 pp., 8 ½” x 11”, club advisors.

Esteem Builders: A Self-Esteem Curriculum for Improving Student Achievement, Behavior & School-Home Climate

Michele Borba A curriculum for enhancing student self-esteem in grades kindergarten through 12 is presented in this guide. An introduction discusses the background and research-based data as to why esteem building is essential for today's students. Chapter 1 explains the building blocks of self-esteem: security, self-hood, affiliation, mission, and competence. Chapter 2 presents a detailed plan of daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activities that are grade level specified and cross-referenced to all major curriculum areas. Chapter 3 presents activities and strategies to build the student's feelings of trust, safety, and security. Chapter 4 presents activities and strategies to build the student's feelings of individuality and acquisition of self-knowledge. Chapter 5 presents activities and strategies to increase the student's feelings of belonging as well as to enhance social skills. Chapter 6 presents activities and strategies to help the student gain a sense of purpose. The chapter covers goal-setting, measuring past performance, and decision-making skills. Chapter 7 presents activities and strategies to help the student recognize successes and internalize feelings of accomplishment. Chapter 8 presents activities in which students work as cooperative teams to build each of the five feelings within themselves and others. Chapter 9 presents daily language development assignments and topics. Chapter 10 presents activities done on a school-wide basis to increase each of the five self-esteem components. This chapter presents spirit and climate energizers as well as activities for principals. Two appendixes contain a self-esteem bibliography and student self-esteem assessment charts and prescriptive plan.

Etiquette Lessons: Girls & Boys at the Table Children and Youth Ages 5-12 Teens at the Table Young Adults Ages 13-19

Teresa Kathryn Grisinger Reilly The book, Etiquette Lessons is a collection of the good manners parents want their children to know. Girls & Boys at the Table & Teens at the Table Part I and II are easy to use instructional programs containing a series of 45 minute classes in table manners, social behavior etiquette and Introduction to Ballroom Dance. These two courses are designed for groups of children and young people ages five through twelve and thirteen through nineteen. Each program includes detailed lesson plans to help educators guide students through lessons such as how to use napkins and eating utensils to how to dress for dinner. Each lesson is presented with a light snack and beverage. Convenient instructions allow you to order Etiquette Achievement Certificates and Student Keepsake Booklets for presentation to program graduates.

In addition to basic table manners, teens learn tips on grooming, how to eat different foods, make introductions, write social correspondence, the art of conversation and Cotillion Dance Floor Etiquette. Each lesson ends with a quiz to help evaluate and insure program effectiveness.

All receive social skills that will last a lifetime.

Our experience with Mrs. Reillys Etiquette Course was magnificent.Ms. L., Mrs. N., Mrs. K., a Montessori School

Wait until you see this program, this is brilliant!Mrs. S.D., Publisher

Ours is the practical and natural approach to etiquette training. Young people study these lessons gaining confidence and skill together. They soon begin to conform to the roles of ladies and gentlemen at the table. We strive to prepare our students to dine capably and independently. We review and reinforce good manners taught at home adding nuances of fine dining etiquette. This system of dining and social behavior creates opportunities for each graduates best traits to shine through.Teresa Kathryn Grisinger Reilly

Evaluating Character Development

Edward F. DeRoche Evaluating Character Development is an excellent resource to help you know how you're doing. Now that you've established a character education program in your school or district, how do you measure its success? Edward F. DeRoche, co-director of the International Center for Character Education and professor in the School of Education at the University of San Diego, has developed a much-in-demand and invaluable collection of assessment tools for calculating and benchmarking your character development initiative's progress. This resource offers practical strategies to inform and launch a plan of evaluation, including asking better questions to get the answers you need, establishing action research teams, maximizing the analysis, and beginning an action plan. The book also includes actual assessment tools, which Dr. DeRoche selected for their proven success in schools and districts throughout the country.

Everyday Heroes Copy 1

Beth Johnson This book is part of the Townsend Library, a collection of high-interest paperbacks published by Townsend Press to promote reading among today s students. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading.

Everyday Heroes Copy 2

Exceeding expectations: A user's guide to implementing brain research in the classroom

Susan Kovalik If you're looking for a proven model for implementing best practice for curriculum development and instruction based on solid brain research rather than tradition, you will love this book, the result of 25 years of field trials by thousands of teachers (formerly called the ITI model). The book begins with a non-technical, easily-understood summary of four important principles from brain research and then provides practical, step-by-step instructions for developing and implementing brain-compatible curriculum and instruction. Five stages are described. (419 pages) Fourth edition is printed in three, easy-to-handle volumes. Price includes Your Personal Guidebook for Implementing the HET Model, Stages 1-3

Facilitator's Guide to Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators

Clifton L. Taulbert, Douglas E. Decker This facilitator's guide helps staff developers lead inspired training focused on Taulbert's time-honored principles that can transform the lives of the teachers, students, administrators, and staff.

Family Problem Solving: Conflict Mediation Training for Parents

CRU Institute Family Problem Solving Package
Create a comprehensive mediation program at your school by providing mediation skill training for parents. When children have conflicts at home, parents can act as mediators. This approach to problem solving at home will create a consistent experience for your students.
Parent Training Package includes:
• Parent training manual and 1 parent booklet

Family Problem Solving: Conflict Mediation Training for Parents Copy 2

Fantastic Antone Succeeds: Experiences in Educating Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Judith Kleinfeld Three themes run through the accounts of parents and teachers as they relate their experiences rearing and teaching children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS): (1) Children with FAS can achieve far more than current negative stereotypes suggest; (2) Early intervention and excellent family care make an enormous difference to the success and happiness of children with FAS; and (3) Specific educational strategies can help alcohol-affected children learn in the classroom and the home. Through their accounts, these parents and teachers provide the "wisdom of practice," that is, lessons and inventions based in experience that can help other parents and educators devise educational strategies adapted to the unique needs of individual alcohol-affected children. Part I discusses how prenatal alcohol exposure affects children and their families, and explains the difficulties in information processing related to many behavioral problems of children with FAS. In Part II, parents present stories about parental advocacy, the importance of early diagnosis and early intervention, and the successes of alcohol-affected children. Part III covers teaching methods, classroom techniques, strategies for mainstreaming children with FAS in a small rural school, and alternative schooling for alcohol-affected children. Part IV presents recommendations for counselors and therapists working with families of alcohol-affected children. Appendices contain an extensive outline of educational strategies for preschool, elementary, and adolescent students with FAS or alcohol effects, and a list of 74 resources (audiotapes, videotapes, books, journal articles, newsletters, and organizations). An index is included.

Fighting Fair for Families

Fran Schmidt, Alice Friedman Fighting Fair for Families offers you the tools to handle conflict like a "pro". Think of yourself as a Michaelangelo or a Picasso with the power to create a more loving and caring environment for you and your family.

Fighting Fair: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for Kids — Student Activity Books, Grade 8 - Copy 1

Fran Schmidt, Alice Friedman Historic struggle and conflict resolution lessons come blended in this curriculum. Fighting Fair: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for Kids examines key dynamics of America's civil rights movement, emphasizing Dr. King's philosophy and practice. Help your students recognize the practical value of nonviolent problem-solving in their own lives, even in the face of apathy or violent opposition.
Students will explore complex topics such as prejudice, racism, intolerance, war, and nonviolent social action, and learn valuable strategies for defusing anger, confronting fear, and speaking out against injustice.
The award winning companion video, shot with middle school students, integrates historic footage and images with a scripted segment that provides a simple problem-solving format for students.
Originally we produced this unit with grades four through eight in mind; some pages are more suitable for upper elementary. For the more complex possibilities of discussion and role-plays, however, we recommend the unit for middle school.

Fighting Fair: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for Kids — Student Activity Books, Grade 8 - Copy 2

First Class Character Education Activities Program: Ready-to-Use Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12 Copy 1

Michael D. Koehler, Karen E. Royer This resource gives secondary teachers and counselors 95 ready-to-use lessons with reproducible activity sheets to promote healthy character development in students. The lessons are drawn from First-Class, a successful program initiated by students and teachers at Mundelein (IL) High School and can be used as is or adapted to fit the particular needs in any junior or senior high school. Major topics covered include:
* the nature of good character
* student behavior and the related issues of motivation, communication and family involvement
* anger management, stress reduction, dealing with failure and impulse control
* social issues such as family roles, violence and the impact of TV
* prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping and sexual harassment
* self-understanding and self-acceptance
* caring about the school, using appropriate language, maintaining personal appearance, and volunteering

First Class Character Education Activities Program: Ready-to-Use Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12 Copy 2

The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher

Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong Used by new and veteran teachers, college instructors, and administrators, this is a beautifully designed book on classroom management, student achievement, and teacher effectiveness. Color graphics.

Fish Tales: Discovering What's Fishy About Violence and Drugs in the Reel World - Copy 1

J. Michael Hargrave Through stories, role plays and activities children discover they can have hope and they are the hope for their better world. The delightful "fish" characters mirror childrens' feelings and actions while their adventures teach positive, workable solutions to everyday ethical problems. Fish Tales may be used in an interdisciplinary approach, integrating guidance, health, language arts, science or life-skills classes. The material is fitted with lines to hook third through sixth grade students.

Fish Tales: Discovering What's Fishy About Violence and Drugs in the Reel World - Copy 2

From Innocence to Entitlement: A Love And Logic Cure for the Tragedy of Entitlement

Jim Fay, Dawn Billings Every parent needs this book! * Never hear, "It's not fair," or "But I want it" again! * No more giving into your kids demands * Have the courage to say "No" * Stop stealing your child's potential for future happiness * Create the happy family of your dreams

Entitlement...the ruination of a generation

Does your kid expect every new electronic toy and gadget, every new game, every new fashion trend, and when old enough a new car? Are you stealing your child's potential for happiness, respect, appreciation, imagination, and joy?

Entitlement has become an epidemic. Yet parents think they are giving in to this disease out of love for their children. In From Innocence to Entitlement: A Love and Logic Cure for the Tragedy of Entitlement the legendary Jim Fay, and entitlement expert, Dawn Billings, take an in-depth look at the devastation and destruction of entitlement and provide techniques for preventing and curing the problem.

Future Force : Kids That Want To, Can, and Do! : A Teacher's Handbook

Elaine McClanahan, Carolyn Wicks, McClanahan Educate and train the children of today to deal with and contribute to the ever-changing demands of the future with continuous improvement. By translating TQM into an interactive learning process, teachers can create a classroom of children who will lead us into the future.

Game Day

Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber Ronde and Tiki are a team. They are twins, they are each other's best friends and biggest fans, and they play on the same football team, the Cave Spring Vikings. Rondeis #21 and Tiki is #22, always side by side.

Tiki has had seven long touch-down runs this season, and Ronde is proud of his brother, but he can't help feeling a little down when Tiki gets all the glory. If Ronde hadn't been leading the way with his blocks, Tiki wouldn't have been clear to score. Ronde thinks nobody notices the guy who blocks; they only notice the guy who scores. Will the day ever come when Ronde will get his chance?

Written by two NFL superstars, this story of perseverance and teamwork will inspire. Barry Root's glowing illustrations bring to life all the excitement and energy of a great game and a team working together.

George and Martha with Teacher Resource Guide

James Marshall How big can a friendship be? Just imagine the friendship shared by two hippos! Five stories explore issues such as vanity, privacy, and honesty. Will Martha make fun of George's gold tooth? Will there be split-pea soup for lunch again? Lessons in behavior are included in these solid, simple stories.

The Golden Compass for Character-Based Decision Making

David B. Wangaard; Ed.D., Natalie Griffin

Grandparenting With Love & Logic: Practical Solutions to Today's Grandparenting Challenges

Jim Fay Grandparents have changed! The stereotype of the fragile, white-haired retiree has been shattered. Today's grandparents are active and involved- in everything from careers to fitness to dating. They are 'thirty-something' to one hundred plus- and every age in between. Grandparent's roles have also changed, as have many of their situations. While some may be grand-parenting within a 'traditional' family, others may be facing new challenges such as: acting as a stabilising force during times of family upheaval, providing day care for a grandchild, furnishing temporary living arrangements for an adult child and grandchild, filling the role of 'Mum' and 'Dad' for a grandchild, blending step-grandchildren with biological grandchildren. Whatever the unique situation, parenting expert Jim Fay shows grandparents how to develop enjoyable, fulfilling relationships with both their adult children - while helping grandchildren grow into responsible, caring young people.

Guiding Good Choices: A Program for Parents of Children Ages 9-14: Workshop Leader's Guide

Channing Bete The Guiding Good Choices program is an easy-to-implement, proven-effective drug prevention program that seeks to give parents the skills they need to help reduce their children's risk for using alcohol and other drugs.
Goal:
The goal of the Guiding Good Choices program is to prevent substance abuse among teens by teaching parents effective family management and communication skills before their children enter adolescence.
Target Audience:
Parents of children in grades 4-8 (ages 9-14)
Program Length:
The typical implementation is 5 workshops.
Program Materials:
• Workshop Leader's Guide (1 copy)
• Workshop DVD (1 copy)
• Family Guide (1 copy)  Every family should have its own. Additional Family Guides are available.
• Evaluation tools — The Workshop Leader's Guide contains pre- and post-tests for each session and instructions for analyzing the results.

Handle With Care: Helping Children Prenatally Exposed to Drugs and Alcohol

Sylvia Fernandez Villarreal, Lora-Ellen McKinney, Marcia Quackenbush ntended for teachers and caregivers who deal with children exposed prenatally to substance abuse, this book gives a general overview of the problem of prenatal substance exposure, describes some of the common issues for children living in drug and alcohol involved families, and offers some practical suggestions for helping these children and their families. The 10 chapters of the book are: (1) "Prenatal Drug and Alcohol Exposure: What's Really Going On?"; (2) "Understanding Cultural Issues: Helping You Help Children"; (3) "Crack Cocaine: the Worst Drug Ever?"; (4) "Chemical Dependency: A Disease, Not a Crime"; (5) "Helping the Family, Helping the Child"; (6) "Prenatal to Preschool: The Developmental Picture"; (7) "Taking Care of Infants and Toddlers"; (8) "What To Expect from School-Age Children"; (9) "Learning Styles and Teaching Strategies"; and (10) "Policy Planning and a Look to the Future." Profiles of children are included with some of the chapters. Five appendixes contain information about abusable substances and the effects of substance abuse on pregnancy, newborns, and children as they grow; tools for assessment; and additional resources. Contains 30 references and a glossary of terms.

The Heart of a Chief with Teacher Resource Guide

Joseph Bruchac Chris's life is complicated. At school, he's been selected to lead a project on sports teams with Indian names. At home, on the Penacook reservation, the Indians are divided about building a casino. It would destroy the beautiful island Chris thinks of as his own. Is there anything one sixth-grade boy can do?

"Chris's compelling voyage of self-discovery is grounded in everyday events . . . allowing readers to see into the heart of this burgeoning chief."
-Publishers Weekly

"Readers who see injustice in their own lives will admire how much Chris accomplishes with a simple message of respect."
-Booklist

Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents

Allan Creighton, Paul Kivel Based on programs developed by the Oakland Men's Project, this book offers a proactive, multicultural approach for getting at the roots of violent behavior. The activities and workshops described in the book explore how violence manifests in families and dating; how issues of race, gender, and age are involved; and how teens can work to stop the violence in their lives. It includes curricula for classrooms and support groups, and strategies to support peer counselors and help abused teens.

How Mother Nature Flowered the Fields of Earth and Mars

Tom Schwartz Buzz on in for the adventure of a life time by reading the How Mother Nature stories! Mother Nature has a terrible dilemma. Supreme Queen Bee, Queen Bluefire, no longer wants the responsibility of getting all the flowers to grow. Her bees want to play and have fun. They no longer want to work to pollinate the flowers. Oh dear, what's Mother Nature to do?

And that's only the beginning of her troubles. Can she get the beavers to irrigate the fields and save them from rampaging bears? Can she get the earthworms to fertilize the soil?

Let us hope so or otherwise the flowers won't bloom and blossom.

Reviews from educators...

"In the tradition of established folk and fairy tales, Mr. Schwartz has created a variety of engaging characters in this imaginative environmental trilogy. The message of preservation of humans and their environment is an important one for our youth." Dr. Richard Di Patri, Superintendent, Brevard Public Schools, Florida

"The environment and conservation are becoming increasingly important to keeping our planet livable. Tom Schwartz has written a book to help children understand the importance of each creature in the scheme of things. The three stories in this book are tied together by the interaction of the wonderful, believable characters... The stories are well plotted with plenty of action and peril to keep even reluctant readers interested. The story shows how teamwork really pays off, and how the action of one can affect the whole planet. The vulnerability of the earth and its creatures is stressed, and the whole ties in nicely with school curriculum Tom Schwartz is a gifted writer, and this is a much needed contribution to childrens literature and a great addition to your childs library." Beverly J. Rowe, MyShelf.com

"Toms stories about Mother Nature and her helpers left a big impact on the children, which will help make our Earth a cleaner place." Diane Goodson, Curriculum Resource Teacher, Eccleston Elementary School, Orlando, Florida

"Tom visited out school and the children were enthralled with his stories about Mother Nature. Great message about saving the environment." Maureen Tassone, Media Specialist, Christa McAuliffe Elementary School, Palm Bay, Florida

"Toms Mother Nature stories reinforce what we teach about the environment. Our students loved the characters and their parts in helping Mother Nature." Sharen Talbert, Principal, Mims Elementary School, Mims, Florida

How Rude!: The Teenagers' Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out

Alex J. Packer Just in time to save the world from a manners meltdown, here's an etiquette book that teens will want to read—because it keeps them laughing, doesn't preach, and deals with issues that matter to them. Packer blends humor with sound advice as he guides readers through the world of manners from A ("Applause") to Z ("Zits"). Full of practical tips for any occasion.

How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies: A Book That Takes the Nuisance Out of Name Calling and Other Nonsense Copy 1

Kate Cohen-Posey Every young person will need this book at some time in his or her life! A parent-child resource book, How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies covers

*annoying name calling,
*vicious prejudice,
*explosive anger,
*dangerous situations, and
*causes of difficult behavior.

It contains more than twelve ways for melting meanness. It uses dozens of examples and practice exercises to teach a comic approach to handling cruelty. It shows young people how to put spiritual truths in to action. It gives parents, teachers, and counselors a method to help young people help themselves with an approach that goes far beyond assertiveness in its mastery of meanness.

How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies: A Book That Takes the Nuisance Out of Name Calling and Other Nonsense Copy 2

How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents

Joseph A. Califano Jr. Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high school. The good news is that a child who gets to age twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so...and kids who learn about drugs from their parents are much likelier to resist these temptations.

Based on nearly two decades of research at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents offers advice and information on how to prepare your child for the crucial decision-making moments and on many of the most daunting parenting topics, including: • When and how to talk to your kids about drugs and alcohol
• How to respond when your kid asks, "Did you do drugs?"
• How to know when your child is most at risk
• How to prepare your teen for the freedoms and perils of college

How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents Copy 2

How to Say No and Keep Your Friends

Sharon Scott Tells how to deal with negative peer pressure, explains how to make a good decision, and discusses behavior related to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and sex.

How to Use Social Norms Marketing to Prevent Driving After Drinking: A Most of Us Toolkit

Jeffrey W. Linkenbach The primary goal of this project was to create an Implementation Guide to support the planning and initiation of statewide social norms campaigns focused on impaired driving. The result is the forthcoming publication “How to Use Social Norms Marketing to Prevent Driving after Drinking: A MOST of Us Toolkit.” The Toolkit supports the planning and initiation of statewide social norms campaigns focused on impaired driving. It is based largely on the MOST of Us Prevent Drinking and Driving Campaign, a successful statewide social norms campaign, the results of which are forthcoming as a publication from NHTSA. The Toolkit contains specific information and examples related to the prevention of driving after drinking, but most the material it contains could be used to plan and implement a social norms campaign on virtually any topic.   Sponsor: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

The Hundred Dresses and Teacher Resource Guide

Eleanor Estes Never out of print since its 1944 publication, this tender story offers readers of all ages a timeless message of compassion and understanding. At its heart is Wanda Petronski, an immigrant girl in an American school, who is ridiculed for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. When she tells her classmates that she has one hundred dresses at home, she unwittingly triggers a game of teasing that eventually ends in a lesson for all.

In restoring the reproduction of Louis Slobodkin's artwork, this new edition recaptures the original vivid color. And to celebrate the book's enhanced beauty, Helena Estes, the daughter of the author, has written a new letter to readers about the true story behind The Hundred Dresses.

I Can Be Me: A Helping Book for Children from Troubled Families

Dianne S. O'Connor I Can Be Me: Dr. O'Connor is the author of "I CAN BE ME" — a Helping Book for Children from Troubled Families. This book includes a special focus on children of alcoholics or drug addicted parents; it shows parents and counselors how to address the needs of these children. Concerned parents and other family members have used "I CAN BE ME" to help the children they care about

I Can Problem Solve: An Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Program Intermediate Elementary Grades

Myrna B. Shure ICPS for Intermediate Elementary Grades contains 77 lessons. Based on 25 years of meticulous research, ICPS has proven to be extremely effective in helping children learn to resolve interpersonal problems and prevent antisocial behaviors. ICPS teaches children how to think, not what to think. It is a self-contained program that involves the use of games, stories, puppets, and role plays to make learning enjoyable. Each lesson contains a teacher script, reproducible illustrations, and a list of readily available materials. Click here for the Table of Contents and a complete listing of lessons.

I Can Say No: A Child's Book about Drug Abuse

Doris Sanford A breakdown in communication between family members leads to the discovery that David's older brother is using drugs. Lists guidelines for parents to help a child stay off drugs.

I Know the World's Worst Secret: A Child's Book about Living with an Alcoholic Parent

Doris Sanford Elizabeth, the daughter of an alcoholic mother, tries to carry the burden of taking care of the family. Includes guidelines for adults to help children of alcoholics.

I Want It Now!, Patience, Character Classics

Tony Salerno Illustrated Hardback to be used with music CD and Activity Book (pictured). Ages 5-11. One of 12 traits featured in the Character Classics series. Tunes of Mozart, Bach, Grieg, Mendelssohn, and Khachaturian.

I can do that: Positive character traits for middle schoolers

Pam Reed Free lance writer Pam Reed and Chicago public school teacher Daniel Gray have teamed up to develop a character education curriculum that introduces concepts and behaviors which have traditionally been considered virtues in our society. Many of these concepts have been lost, as "self-esteem" and "moral relativism" have taken over in America's classrooms.
The textbook contains original short stories and poems, with activity pages and charts accompanying each of the reading selections. Beautiful watercolor pictures illustrate each of the book's ten units. Students examine the positive character traits of responsibility, honesty, justice, respect, chastity, humility, patience, generosity, obedience, and perseverence. The text begins with an index of applied virtues, which the authors include to ensure that students and parents will extract and use every available lesson.

Implementing Character Education

B. David Brooks, Patricia Freedman This book includes a comprehensive introduction to character education nd solid guidance for planning, implementing, evaluating, and funding a school-wide or district-wide character education program.

Improving Social Competence: A Resource for Elementary School Teachers

Pam Campbell, Gary N. Siperstein Recognizing the importance of friendship and peer acceptance in children's lives, this resource book translates research findings on the development of social competence into a tool providing skills, information, and activities that teachers can use to develop the social competence of elementary school students. Activities are based on the notion that socially skilled children who are confident in social situations can become even more competent in classrooms that are rich in social opportunities. Chapter 1 of the book shows teachers how to determine their preferred teaching style to see if they impede or promote social interaction. Chapter 2 discusses the impact of classroom rules, space, and time on opportunities for social interaction. Chapter 3 allows teachers to examined teaching methods for interaction opportunities and discusses the use of cooperative learning techniques. Chapter 4 considers how the teacher, environment, and instruction combine to determine the classroom climate, and suggests ways to improve the climate. Chapter 5 provides assessment tools to identify students who lack social skills and discusses modeling and coaching as instructional techniques, while chapter 6 provides information to identify and assist students who lack self-confidence. Each chapter contains information, assessments, and activities. Appendices include activities using modeling or coaching, additional resource, and methods for developing instructional goals and objectives for individualized educational plans. Contains 89 references.

Internet & Computer Ethics for Kids:

Winn Schwartau Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids (and Parents and Teachers Who Havent Got a Clue) The Book of cyber-ethical Questions for the Information Age

The Title says it all.

Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids (and Parents and Teachers Without a Clue) is going to be one of the most significant books of 2001.

It discusses, in a non-technical language that everyone can understand, one of the most serious issues facing us today:

Hackers, Hacking and Cyber-Ethics.

1. How should kids behave on the Internet?
2. How can parents help their technically fluent children?
3. What can the schools and teachers do to assist?

Cyber Ethics is an important mission that you will want to be a part of, and this book is only the first of a series of books that will be appearing in the coming three years on the subject, all talking to a wide variety of issues.

CyberEthics for Kids and Families!

Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids is the first book to actively promote family and youth values and cyberethics in an entertaining, colorful way.

All About Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids!

Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids is a colorful, extensively illustrated book written in an easy to understand, non-technical format. No other book has been specifically targeted at non-technical parents, teachers and kids who are in the greatest need of ethical education on issues they dont understand.

This lack of cyber ethical knowledge:
-Hampers a parents ability to raise their children with the appropriate amount of teaching and ethical foundation.
-Creates a greater schism in families
-Ultimately raises children with no cyber ethical guidance, which as we all know, if bad for business and society as a whole.

Unlike the small handful of older books which preach ethics and tell people how to behave, Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids does not preach or suggest what is right or wrong behavior. Instead, it provides situational conundra for the reader, the parent and the educator to discuss, evaluate and form the basis for personal ethics.

Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids is written so everyone, from all walks of life and education can read it and understand it.
Parents
Kids
Families
Teachers
School Districts
Information Age Workers
Government Employees
Corporations to Teach Staff Ethics
Technical Conferences

Iti: The Model Integrated Thematic Instruction

Susan J. Kovalik Research on the biology of learning has given us a window on learning never before realized in the history of civilization.
• Translate the biology of learning into practical application
• Implement the nine bodybrain-compatible elements
 Teaching strategies that align with the way the human brain learns have the greatest impact.
• Design the physical classroom to support long-term learning
• Create workable teams of students
• Develop classroom management that uses agreements, procedures, Lifelong Guidelines and LIFESKILLS
 Curriculum development by classroom teachers makes learning come alive.
• Anchor curriculum to a yearlong theme and rationale
• Align district and state learning goals within the theme
• Orchestrate "being there" experiences tied to meaningful content
• Reach out to the community
 The ITI model begins with an understanding of six learning principles derived from bodybrain research:  
1. BODYBRAIN PARTNERSHIP
• EMOTION - the gatekeeper to performance
• SYNERGY- body and brain function inseparably
1. INTELLIGENCE - a function of experience
2. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES - problem-solving, product-producing capabilities
3. PATTERN SEEKING - meaning-making process
4. PROGRAM BUILDING - using what we understand
5. TEMPERAMENT - impact of personality

The Journey to Excellence: Year One

Amy Evans After three years of writing, development, and field testing, the Character Development Group is proud to publish the first of three books in the Journey to Moral and Social Excellence Series. The Journey to Excellence by Amy Evans represents the first work in this powerful and needed new series. The Journey to Excellence provides teachers and counselors a well tested curriculum to assist students in growing toward excellence in their personal, social and moral lives. The author utilizes relevant literature and activities designed to enable students to consider their present course on the journey toward social, emotional and moral excellence. Each chapter includes reproducible handouts and activities for the educators convenience. Furthermore, the material has been successfully used by counselors who are working in classrooms or working individually with challenged students. Take a ride on the Journey to Excellence. Your students will be glad you did.

The Kid's Guide to Service Projects: Over 500 Service Ideas for Young People Who Want to Make a Difference

Barbara A. Lewis, Pamela Espeland

Kids with character: Character building activities for the elementary classroom

Maureen Duran Topics include honesty, perseverance, responsibility, self-discipline, patience, respect, kindness, courage, fairness, forgiveness, honor, and love. Grades 1-5. [8.5” x 11”...96 pages]

Kids' Power: Healing Games for Children of Alcoholics

Jerry Moe, Don Pohlman, Peter Ways Welcome to Kids' Power. There is hope today for young children of alcoholics. They can and do overcome the smothering effects of an alcoholic home, and they don't have to wait until adulthood to begin this recovery. One of the most devastating illnesses known to mankind, chemical dependency progressively damages all aspects of the afflicted person: physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. But this only part of the story. Alcoholism and drug addiction have a profound impact on every member of the family.

Young children are not spared; they can be deeply scarred. All of these children live in a highly chaotic and unpredictable environment, and many are subjected to neglect, physical abuse, verbal violence, inconsistency, broken promises, confusion and role reversals with their parents. Because of these traumas, children of alcoholics are at high risk for becoming juvenile delinquents, dropping out of school, running away, having unwanted pregnancies, committing suicide and developing alcoholism, drug abuse and co-dependency. Not as dramatic, but equally debilitating, are the other traits frequently exhibited by these children, such as compulsive overachieving, stress-related medical problems, difficulty in initiating and maintaining intimate relationships, inability to play and relax, and failure to take good care of self.

The self-perpetuating nature of the problem is obvious. Where does it ever stop? To avoid continuing the family legacy of alcoholism from generation to generation, prevention must involve working with young children of alcoholics - true primary prevention. It is essential to reach these youngsters to spare them from the damaging silence, isolation, pain, shame and embarrassment they endure in their homes. They must learn while they are still young that the disease is not their fault, and they are not alone. The burdens must be lifted from their shoulders.

Most attempts to reach young children of alcoholics have ultimately failed. For every program that thrives many have fallen by the wayside, often because they try to assist youngsters with tools and techniques that are only effective with adults. In a devastating manner parental alcoholism and drug abuse rob children of their childhood. Many kids must grow up way too fast by taking on adult roles and responsibilities. For others, this disease blocks the joy, creativity, spontaneity and wonder of childhood. The time has come to stop treating young children of alcoholics as if they were adults and to start treating them as children. A large part of recovery for children of alcoholics of all ages is getting in touch with that wounded child within. Play helps not only to connect with that child, but also to assist in the healing process.

In the over twenty years that we've been conducting education/support groups for young children of alcoholics, we've stressed four primary goals: first, to help children understand what's happening at home by teaching about chemical dependency; second, to provide a safe and supportive environment for them to freely explore and express their feelings; and third, to teach these children the skills they need to take better care of themselves and stay safe. The final goal is to simply help them be kids.

In our programs young children of alcohol and drug addicted parents can play their way to understanding and health. Specially designed games and activities cover the following areas of critical importance; feelings, the disease of chemical dependency, family, defenses, problem solving and self-esteem.

Each of these areas is represented in this book by a number of games. Most are non-competitive and stress cooperation, trust and teamwork in an atmosphere where everyone wins. Participation in these games fosters bonding, support, laughter and recovery. Games help kids step back and look at situations with safety. They can use characters, posters and other means to express things they wouldn't feel safe expressing any other way. We have "kid-tested" all of these games and activities with young children (ages 6 to 12) of alcoholics and addicts in a variety of settings including weekly educational/support groups, retreats, camps and workshops. We have been using some of these games for almost twenty years. Some work well with even younger children, and many are effective with adolescents and adults. For each game the appropriate age group is indicated. Each writeup continues with description, example, affirmations and the materials required.

Know About Abuse

Margaret O. Hyde Describes cases of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse; their effects; and how to prevent maltreatment.

Know What? Bullying hurts! #1-25

Channing Bete The teaching tool that helps children build skills for confronting — and ending — bullying in its earliest stages. Easy-to-read text and interactive exercises provide techniques for standing up to bullies and insights into reasons why some children bully others; also promote empathy with bullying's victims and appreciation of everyone's worth. 12 pages, 8 1/2" x 11". Ages 6-8

Know What? Bullying hurts! #26-50

Know What? Bullying hurts! #51-76

Channing Bete

Know What? Bullying hurts! #77-96

Know What? We have good character #1-25

Channing Bete Know What?(R) We Have Good Character!

Doing the right thing is a lot easier when children get a chance to work with the building blocks of good character. This workbook introduces them to simple, key factors in character development, which include showing respect to others and oneself, being trustworthy, and being considerate of others' feelings. 12 pages, 8 1/2" x 11". Ages 6-8

Leading with Character to Improve Student Achievement

Dr. Robert D. Williams, Dr. Rosemarye T. Taylor What does it take to foster and facilitate an effective character education program? We know that a critical element is leadership. The authors' approach to character education leadership is both a model to emulate and a tool that we all can use. Leading with Character will help you be the catalyst and architect in your school or district.

Learning Together and Alone: Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning

David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson The authors integrate cooperative learning with competitive and individualistic learning by providing guidelines for managing critical issues such as teaching social skills, assessing competencies and involvement, and resolving conflict among group members. Each type of learning is clearly defined; the advantages and disadvantages of each are covered; and the research is analyzed to illuminate the conditions under which each should be used. Pre-service and in-service teachers with an interest in cooperative learning and teaching methods.

Learning the Skills of Peacemaking: An Activity Guide for Elementary-Age Children on Communicating, Cooperating, Resolving Conflict

Naomi Drew This guide discusses bringing the skills of peacemaking to life for children. It focuses on four major components: accepting self and others; communicating effectively; resolving conflicts; and understanding intercultural differences. Peacemaking skills are presented in three stages with each stage integrating lessons in these four concept areas. Stage I is "Peace Begins with Me," Stage II is "Integrating Peacemaking," and Stage III is "Exploring Our Roots and Interconnectedness." Each stage is multi-graded. This guide uses many methods to teach peacemaking skills, such as playacting; creative writing; story-reading; music; the arts; and classroom discussion. After an introduction, sections on using the guide and the Win/Win guidelines are presented. There are 56 lessons in all, covering such topics as: (1) defining conflict resolution; (2) the basic needs of people; (3) "peace starts with me"; (4) connecting to the world around us; (5) being different is OK; (6) different flags of different lands; (7) building a "Civilization of Love"; (8) global issues—a group brainstorming session; (9) the ladder of peacemaking; (10) finding solutions to world conflict; (11) role reversals in world conflict; and (12) commitments for the future. Interspersed among these lessons are 11 sample bulletin boards illustrating various aspect of peacemaking. A bibliography is included. Also included are lists of books for parents, teachers, and children; records and tapes; newsletters and pamphlets; and resource organizations.

Lessons For Life: Secondary Grades

Zark VanZandt, Bette Ann Buchan Here is a career development curriculum packed with stimulating lessons and activities to help students develop the self-knowledge, interpersonal skills, and work habits they need for success in school, work and life, while learning how to make good decisions about their education, personal lives, and future careers. This book folds flat for easy photocopying of the lesson materials and includes 60 ready-to-use lessons with related activities and worksheets.

Lessons from the Classroom: 20 Things Good Teachers Do

Hal Urban Lessons From The Classroom: 20 Things Good Teachers Do

The focus is on creating a “Caring Community” on the campus and in the classroom. It’s about helping kids develop solid character traits while maintaining high academic standards. It’s about bringing out the best in them: positive attitude, good manners, kind words, hard work, and clean humor. Urban, the author of the best-selling Life’s Greatest Lessons and Positive Words, Powerful Results, and an award-winning public school teacher for 35 years, will share with us his simple, practical, and do-able strategies for helping teachers become their best and for bringing out the best in their students.

Lessons from the Rocking Chair

Deb Austin Brown Lessons From the Rocking Chair...will remind you of the ageless words of wisdom your grandparents taught through the use of stories and parables...it is a book for all to read and reread and reread! — Michael Mitchell, Executive Director, Power of Positive Students International Foundation

The Letter on Light Blue Stationery: A Story About Self-Esteem

Rainbow Educational Video Creator Joy Berry entertains children with song, story, and moral output in these delightful tales that teach young and old. "The Letter on Light Blue Stationery" offers a lesson in self-esteem.

Life Saver Kit

Jim Fay

Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

Hal Urban Life's Greatest Lessons is a wise, wonderful book. In it, Hal Urban, a parent and an award-winning teacher, presents twenty principles that are as deeply rooted in common sense as they are in compassion. The topics, gathered from a lifetime of teaching both children and adults, span a wide range of readily understood concepts, including attitudes about money, understanding the real meaning of "success," and the importance of having fun. The book will help you find the best — in the world, in others, and in yourself. Classic in its simplicity and enduring in its appeal, Life's Greatest Lessons helps us all rediscover that the desire to live a good life is timeless.

Love & Logic Solutions for Kids With Special Needs

David Funk Dave Funk will teach you how to bring the best out of special needs kids. This informative book will answer all your questions plus more. Each page of this book provides:
• Tools and insights for those teaching special needs kids
• Learning at its best through stories and examples
• Powerful techniques that help with all children
• Answers for teachers, parents, siblings, law enforcement, clergy…anyone whose life is touched by these special kids.

Love & Logic Solutions for Kids With Special Needs

David Funk

Love & Logic: Becoming a Parent Facilitator's Guide

Love, Logic Institute Becoming a Love and Logic Parent® Curriculum

You can teach Love and Logic® parenting classes in your community with no additional training. Our economical training package is complete. You'll get a step by step facilitator guide to make your first presentation easy and natural.

Based on the Love and Logic® philosophy, our unique approach unlocks the secrets of successful parenting. Participants in your classes will learn the specific "how-to's" of successful parenting, not just theoretical concepts. Imagine how you'll feel each week as parents report on positive changes in their childrens behavior-and you gave them the tools! You don't have to be a teacher, professional facilitator, or trainer to teach a highly successful parenting class-even your first time out. We give you carefully crafted, step-by-step instructions for each session you lead. This 12-15 hour comprehensive training curriculum provides you with:
• Four Tapes to broaden your knowledge of the Love and Logic® basics:
1. Helicopters, Drill Sergeants and Consultants
2. Four steps to Responsibility
3. Love Me Enough to Set Some Limits
4. Avoiding Power Struggles with Kids
• Easy-to-follow, user-friendly Facilitator Guide which gives you step-by-step instructions for organizing and presenting your successful parenting course.

Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years

Jim Fay, Charles Fay Parenting little ones can be exhausting...until you discover Love and Logic. Take the exhaustion out and put the fun into parenting your little one.

If you want help with:

* Potty training

* Temper tantrums

* Bedtime

* Whining

* Time-out

* Hassle-free mornings

* and many other everyday challenges

Then this book is for you!

This book is the tool parents of little ones have been waiting for. America's Parenting Experts® Jim Fay and Charles Fay, Ph.D., help you start your child off on the right foot. The tools in Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood will give you the building blocks you need to create children who grow up to be responsible, successful teens and adults. And as a bonus you will enjoy every stage of your child's life and look forward to sharing a lifetime of joy with them.

Love and Logic Magic: When Kids Leave You Speechless

Jim Fay, Charles Fay For years, parents have asked Jim Fay and Dr Charles Fay for specific words they can use when kids leave them speechless. The book is finally here! Twenty-three chapters include parent-child dialogues and plenty of information about how to handle the most frustrating things kids say.

Making Choices About Conflict, Security, and Peacemaking

Carol Miller Lieber his document presents a variety of materials for classroom use to address the issues of conflict, security, and peacemaking. Designed for high school, the lessons are presented from a personal perspective and intended for several learning environments, including: (1) integration into traditional courses; (2) self-contained one to two week units; (3) interdisciplinary units in the humanities; (4) a year's thematic focus; (5) a learning strategy approach; (6) a skill-centered approach; (7) schoolwide conflict resolution programs; and (8) conferences, schoolwide projects, and special events. The topics featured are: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Security in Your Life" (8 activities); (3) "Dealing with Differences" (12 activities); (4) "Exploring the Nature of Conflict" (11 activities); (5) "Resolving Interpersonal Conflict" (11 activities); (6) "Dealing with Anger and Violence" (13 activities); (7) "Perspectives on War and Peacemaking" (14 activities); and (8) "Tools for Participation, Decision Making, and Problem Solving." Primary documents also are included, as are complete lesson plan procedures.

Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain

Renate Nummela Caine, Geoffrey Caine This book by two neuropsychology experts examines how the brain functions during learning experiences and how this knowledge can influence teaching strategies. Grades 1-12

Mean Girls: 101 1/2 Creative Strategies for Working With Relational Aggression

Kaye Randall; LISW-CP & Allyson A. Bowen; LISW-CP, Susan Bowman Here are insights, strategies, and reproducible worksheets for working with girls who are Relationally Aggressive and the young people who have been victimized by this type of bullying. The strategies are designed to increase awareness of Relational Aggression, encourage empathy and tolerance, and improve self-control and coping skills. Also explores cyber-bullying and other types of electronic bullying. The reproducible lessons and activities are designed for individuals, small groups, classrooms, and entire schools. Grades 3-12.

Meanest Thing to Say with Teacher Resource Guide

Bill Cosby When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends.

Mediation Skills Grades 5-9

Sunburst

Mediation for Kids: Kids in Dispute Settlement — Teacher's Guide, Grades 4-7

Fran Schmidt, Alice Friedman, Jean Marvel Mediation for Kids offers a step-by-step, practical guide to getting peer mediation up and running in grades four through middle school. This guide provides both a systematic process for training students and practical implementation tips. Complete with realistic mediation scenarios.

Meeting the Challenge: Using Love and Logic to Help Children Develop Attention and Behavior Skills

Jim Fay, Foster W. Cline, Robert Sornson The wisdom, wit, and experience of Jim Fay, Foster W. Cline, M.D., and Bob Sornson have been coupled together in "Meeting the Challenge". This book is dedicated to the belief that challenging kids can grow up to be wonderful adults. It will help put enjoyment back into teaching and make parenting challenging children a breeze. You will learn techniques that will help you raise joyful, productive, and responsible children.

Monster with Teacher Resource Guide

Walter Dean Myers Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

FADE IN: INTERIOR COURT. A guard sits at a desk behind Steve. Kathy O'Brien, Steve's lawyer, is all business as she talks to Steve.

O'BRIEN
Let me make sure you understand what's going on. Both you and this king character are on trial for felony murder. Felony Murder is as serious as it gets. . . . When you're in court, you sit there and pay attetion. You let the jury know that you think the case is a serious as they do. . . .

STEVE
You think we're going to win ?

O'BRIEN (seriously)
It probably depends on what you mean by "win."

Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner was shot and killed in his store, and the word is that Steve served as the lookout.

Guilty or innocent, Steve becomes a pawn in the hands of "the system," cluttered with cynical authority figures and unscrupulous inmates, who will turn in anyone to shorten their own sentences. For the first time, Steve is forced to think about who he is as he faces prison, where he may spend all the tomorrows of his life.

As a way of coping with the horrific events that entangle him, Steve, an amateur filmmaker, decides to transcribe his trial into a script, just like in the movies. He writes it all down, scene by scene, the story of how his whole life was turned around in an instant. But despite his efforts, reality is blurred and his vision obscured until he can no longer tell who he is or what is the truth. This compelling novel is Walter Dean Myers's writing at its best.

2000 Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 2000 Michael L. Printz Award, 1999 National Book Award Finalist, 01 Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Lit Finalist, 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List, and 00-01 Black-Eyed Susan Award Masterlist

2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA), Hornbook Fanfare 2000, Michael L. Printz Award 2000, 2000 Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor Book, 2000 Quick Picks for Young Adults (Recomm. Books for Reluctant Young Readers), and 2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)

Moral Leadership: Getting to the Heart of School Improvement

Thomas J. Sergiovanni "A vision of what could (and probably should) be. . . . The reader may want to revisit some sections for further reflection."
—Educational Leadership

"An excellent book that offers much to the seasoned administrator and should be on the list of required reading for introductory administration classes."
—NASSP Bulletin

Moral Leadership shows how creating a new leadership practice—one with a moral dimension built around purpose, values, and beliefs—can transform a school from an organization to a community and inspire the kinds of commitment, devotion, and service that can make our schools great. Sergiovanni explains the importance of legitimizing emotion and getting in touch with basic values and connections with others. He reveals how true collegiality, based on shared work and common goals, leads to a natural interdepAndence among teachers and shows how a public declaration of values and purpose can help turn schools into virtuous communities where teachers are self-managers and professionalism is considered an ideal.

My Big Sister Takes Drugs

Judith Vigna When the police bring home Paul's sister Tina, who was found taking drugs in the park, a nightmare begins for the family, and Paul's new friendship with Jose and his plans for soccer camp both seem lost.

My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease: A Child's View: Living with Addiction

Claudia Black The basic premise of this book is that chemical dependency is a disease; the alcoholic/addict is a sick person not a bad person. This disease affects not only the addicted person but those who love that person as well. This is a book that will help others affected by chemical dependency to become well.

My Dad Loves Me My Dad Has A Disease was originally written as a result of Claudia Black's work with young people who had a parent in treatment for their alcoholism. These children were learning at a very young age that it was not safe for them to openly talk about their family experiences. Art therapy was a wonderful medium for them to find the words and a voice in which to talk honestly. It was also a wonderful tool in which to not only share feelings but to problem solve, lessen denial, and to put words to that which was so confusing.

The original pictures were all drawn and the stories written by children age five through fourteen that had one or two alcoholic parents. After many years and thousands of children using this workbook, it has been revised to address the fact that today, if a child lives with addiction, it may not be alcohol addiction. The family member may be addicted to other drugs as well. Words have been rewritten, some pictures changed and new pictures added making it possible for more children of addiction to experience their own recovery process.

Many years ago when Claudia Black was a counselor in an alcohol and drug treatment program, she asked a six-year-old daughter of a man in treatment for his addiction if she knew why her father was in this program. The girl paused and with confidence said, My Dad Loves Me, but My Dad Has a Disease. In spite of her father's addiction she knew her father loved her. That is a message Claudia would like all young people to be able to believe. Unfortunately when people are addicted they often lose the ability to act in loving ways toward those they love.Growing up in an addicted family usually means living by the rule: it is not all right to talk about the drinking or using in your family. Having been raised in an alcoholic family herself, by the age of six Claudia shared the feelings of loneliness, fear and frustration of her family.

Working through the loneliness, fear and frustration by expressing feelings is what this book is all about. This workbook gives children age 5 - 12 the opportunity to share their thoughts and feelings and to better understand addiction.

Although this workbook was designed for and the illustrations created by young children, it may also hold insights for the now adult age person raised in an addictive home.

No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them Copy 1

Michele Borba Ed.D. "This will be the only discipline book you'll ever need to raise good kids."
— from the Foreword by Jack Canfield, coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Soul and Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul

"Michele Borba offers insightful, realistic, and straightforward advice that is sure to get immediate results."
— Editor-in-Chief, Parents Magazine

"A sensitive, thoughtful, eminently practical book that will help parents help their children change behaviors that will improve the child's, and the entire family's, well being and happiness. A wonderful contribution!"
— Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., child psychiatrist and coauthor, Over-Scheduled Child

Anger, Anxiety, Biting, Bossy, Bullied, Bullying, Chore Wars, Cynical, Defiant, Doesnt Listen, Fighting, Gives Up Easily, Hitting, Homework Battles, Hooked on Rewards, Impulsivity, Intolerant, Lying and Cheating, Materialistic, Mean, Negative Peer Pressure, No Friends, Over-Perfectionism, Poor Sportsmanship, Put-Downs, Rude, Selfish, Sibling Battles, Short Attention Span, Shy, Stealing, Swearing, Talking Back, Tattling, Teased, Temper Tantrums, Whining, Yelling.

Parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba tackles the most common bad behaviors that kids ages 3 to 12 repeat over and over— behaviors that drive parents crazy. In this enormously useful, simple-to-use book she shows how to change these behaviors for good. For each negative behavior Dr. Borba offers a series of key tips and guidelines and outlines a step-by-step plan for a customized makeover that really works! Using the steps outlined in No More Misbehavin' will give you the help you need to raise kids with strong values and good character.

No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them Copy 2

No Putdowns: Creating a Healthy Learning Environment Through Encouragement, Understanding and Respect: Grades 6-8

National Center for Youth Issues

No Putdowns: Positive Approaches to Negative Situations - Middle School/Junior High

Jim Wright, Wendy Stein, Stephanie Pelcher Protect your school environment. If it is already toxic, clean it up! School staff and students have a right to a healthy learning environment. By choosing to use No Putdowns in your school or classroom, you are taking control. No Putdowns teaches youth different ways to respond each step of the way, replacing angry reactions with clear communication, anger management and conflict resolution skills. With No Putdowns you are creating your own environmental protection agency.

Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them Copy 1

Michele Borba Ed.D. Do you wish your kid had more friends or could keep the ones she has?Is teasing, gossiping, bullying, or cyber-bullying a problem?Is she often left out or rejected by other kids?Does he just follow the crowd? Are you concerned about his friends?Does she complain that she’s unpopular or that nobody likes her?Are you at a loss for how to help your child handle those play dates, sleepovers, being shy, too sensitive, too competitive, or having a bad reputation?

Look no further. The resource you need to solve these problems and boost your child’s social competence is in your hands Based on a survey of five thousand teachers and parents, Nobody Likes Me shows how to teach your child the 25 most essential friendship-building skills kids need to find, make, and keep friends, as well as survive that social pressure from peers.

Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them Copy 2

On target to stop bullying: A program guide for addressing bullying and violence in our schools

SuEllen Fried This program was developed by the STOP Violence Coalition for teachers and counsellors who want to introduce bullying prevention and intervention strategies to their students. This idea-filled guide provides numerous activities that can be adapted to support curricula at the Elementary and Middle Levels. Included are a table of contents and a list of additional bullying prevention resources.

Once Upon a Time... Storytelling to Teach Character and Prevent Bullying

Elisa Davy Pearmain This book features 99 multi-national and multi-cultural folk tales with familiar character and bullying prevention themes but encapsuled in wonderfully diverse stories. The author, a professional storyteller, provides actual stories plus chapters on how to tell a story, not just read it; activities for students; and bulliten board ideas. She also provides hints and tips for teaching kids the art of storytelling which encourages communication skills and classroom unity.

Parent Pilot Kit

Informed Families Informed Families Parent Pilot Kit
A Guide For Parents of Pre-Teens and Teens: Navigating Your Children Through the Teenage Years
• The Parent Pilot Kit is a tool to educate and unite parents in a process to help kids grow up safe, healthy and drug free. It is written by parents for parents.
• The Parent Pilot Kit is a collection of the latest and best research on teenage brain development, media and advertising and social norms.
• The Parent Pilot Kit contains information about communication, driving laws, drug charts, tobacco control, parental self-evaluations and instructions for starting parent peer groups. It also includes Safe Homes/Safe Parties pledges, charts for management of rules and chores and a family calendar.
• The Parent Pilot Kit is a working binder which contains a proactive training program to educate and involve parents of pre-teens and teenagers in substance abuse prevention.

The Parent/Community Connection in the Classroom: Connecting your classroom to parents, community, and character education

Julie L. Gaines This book is a guide to be used by parents and members of the community for teaching character education lessons in the classroom. The simple lesson outlines and corresponding activity ideas make teaching character fun and easy. Recruiting parents and community members (e.g., businesses, faith and youth organizations) to teach monthly 30-minute lessons will increase the effectiveness of your school's character education initiative. Everyone benefits-the home, school, and community-when basic core values are supported.

Parenting Teens With Love And Logic

Foster Cline, Jim Fay Parents need to teach their teens how to make
decisions responsibly—and do so without going crazy or damaging
the relationship. This book empowers parents with the skills and
tools necessary to set limits, teach important skills, and
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Parenting With Love And Logic

Foster Cline, Jim Fay This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility, and you'll establish healthy control without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles. Indexed for easy reference.

Parenting With Love and Logic : Teaching Children Responsibility

Foster W. Cline, Jim Fay EFFECTIVE PARENTING-WITHOUT THE POWER STRUGGLES.

As parents, you have only a few years to prepare your children for a world that requires responsibility and maturity for survival. That thought alone can send shivers down your parental spine!

So what do you do? Hover over your kids so they never make mistakes? Drill them so they'll remember the important principles when you're on their own? Tear your hair out, wondering if teaching them responsibility is anything but a battle of wills?

According to Jim Fay, one of America's top educational consultants, and Dr. Foster Cline, a trend-setting child and adult psychiatrist, parents who try to ensure their children's success often raise unsuccessful kids. Responsibility is like anything else-it has to be learned through practice.

If you want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control-without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.

Parenting with Love and Logic puts the fun back into parenting!

"Parents consistently tell us they wish they had known about love and logic earlier. This common sense approach gives parents a tangible hope that they can still influence their kids."-Dave Funk, staff development coordinator, New Berlin Public Schools, Wisconsin

"I have been a principal for four years now and have used these methods with great success. Thank you for all the creative ideas."-Steven B. Vande Ven, principal, Sherrelwood Elementary School, Denver, Colorado

"I'm continually amazed at how well these principles work, not only with children, but with parents and other adults. It's great to get away from punishment and anger and into love and logic."-Sharon Alexander, principal, Disnard Elementary School, Claremont, New Hampshire

"I really believe that this material can benefit every parent. I have never enjoyed my children more. Parenting has become fun, and stress and anger no longer dominate my life."-Pam L. Tourigny, group home foster parent, Snelling, California

"Parenting with Love and Logic meets with wonderful results. For the first time in four years, we're making progress in the right direction with our teenager."-Billie Leafgreen, parent, Lander, Wyoming

Parenting for Good: Real World Advice for Parents from the Character Columns

Dr. Marvin W. Berkowitz Parenting is not for the faint-of-heart. In this new book of essays, Dr. Marvin Berkowitz, one of character development's leading educators, offers his wit, wisdom, and experiences on the joys and surprises of raising children. We've put together a compilation of the best of Dr. Berkowitz's syndicated newspaper columns, offering insight, advice, and strategies for parents with kids of all ages.

Parenting: The Most Important Job of Your Life!

Josephson Institute of Ethics Created in partnership with National PTA, this guide helps parents and guardians prepare children for life’s adventure, offers parents practical advice, and suggests creative activities for kids ages 0-18.
(8.5” x 11”, softcover, 72 pages)

Parents Do Make a Difference: How to Raise Kids with Solid Character, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts

Michele Borba Ed.D., Michele Borba In 1998, a fierce debate was sparked by Judith Rich Harris's The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do: Parents Matter Less Than You Think and Peers Matter More, a fairly scholarly book that posited, as clearly indicated by the subhead, the radical theory that children are more influenced by peers and siblings than they are by their parents. Parents Do Make a Difference, by Michele Borba, Ed.D., has clearly been marketed as a rebuttal. The title alone is a kind of bolster to parents' sagging self-esteem.

Once you open the book, though, it's just as clear that, marketing aside, the book was not actually written as part of the parents vs. peers debate, which it has absolutely nothing to do with. Nor is it a scholarly work, in the vein of Harris's book. The original title of this book was probably something like "The Eight Skills of Raising Successful Children." These simple skills, which Borba (author of 36 other educational publications) has researched and workshopped across the country, then implemented in the curriculum of three elementary schools, are commonsensical, feel-good affirmations for parents and kids. Borba uses lots of lists: the aforementioned eight skills, "four steps to developing positive self-beliefs," "four steps to enhancing social competence," and so on. The "success tips" and affirmations are pretty straightforward, as with this suggested "pillowgram": "Slip a message under your child's pillow. 'Kevin, I loved looking at your drawings today. You are so artistic! Sleep tight! Love, Dad.'" These are fine, basic self-esteem builders; unfortunately, they can sometimes veer too much on the cloying side. But for parents who want to help their children develop the eight skills (self-confidence, communication, getting along, perseverance, self-awareness, problem solving, goal setting, and caring), it should be of significant help.

Parents, Kids & Character: 21 Strategies To Help Your Children Develop Good Character

Helen R. LeGette Common sense, years of teaching, and a basic belief in character education make this book a perfect handbook for teachers and parents. It's also a great gift for parents and anyone who comes in contact with young people, from counselors to youth-group leaders.

In her 33 years as a teacher, counselor and administrator, author Dr. Helen LeGette has learned that children who have guidance in the home and whose parents set high expectations for their character have a greater chance to succeed in school and in their careers. Parents, Kids and Character has found thousands of fans in teachers, administrators, and parents across the country.

The Party, Goodness Character Classics with Music CD (Teacher's Guide available, search under Character Classics)

Tony Salerno Illustrated Hardback book from 3 piece set (pictured) of Hardback, Music CD, and Activity Resource book. Ages 5-11. Tunes of Bizet, Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Verdi.

The Pearls of Love and Logic for Parents and Teachers Copy 2

Jim Fay, Foster W. Cline An owner’s manual for kids. Parents and educators, this book is a quick reference guide for:
• Peer pressure
• Disrespect
• Back talk
• Clothes
• Complaining
• Sibling rivalry
• Whining
• Mealtime
• Skipping school
Over 100 specific references to help you raise great kids.

The Pearls of Love and Logic for Parents and Teachers

Peer Connection: Faculty Advisor Middle School Handbook

Safe and Drug Free Schools This guide is an outline of the Peer Connection Orientation Program. Follow the program in its entirety, or make any changes that will better meet the needs of your school, staff, and student body. The activities are organized in a particular order. They start with large group, tension-relieving activities, progress to small group and team building activities. The sequence of activities is specifically designed to help reduce anxiety, get the students involved, and help them get to know each other. Includes 2 VHS tapes.

Peer pals!: Kids helping kids succeed in school : lap easel storybook : how Grinner became a winner

Robert P Bowman Peer Pals is a peer-tutoring program for elementary-aged children in which upper-elementary students are trained to help primary students learn to be "Super Students"—students who like school and believe they can succeed at schoolwork. Peer Pals trains third, fourth, fifth, and sometimes sixth grade students to help K, 1, and 2 students learn to "win at the game called School." The older students meet with the younger students to share stories and activities centering on Grinner, a flying squirrel who learns first to fly and then to be a "winner" in many other ways, with the help of his raccoon friend, Blackbelt.

Positive Discipline in the Classroom

Jane Nelsen Ed.D., Lynn Lott, H. Stephen Glenn Create a classroom climate that enhances academic learning by effectively using class meetings and other Positive Discipline Strategies. Teachers can take control and foster the essential skills and attitudes for success in their students by using the techniques explained here.

Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life

Hal Urban Although we live in an ocean of words, we rarely acknowledge their power to uplift or put down, to inspire or discourage, to help or hurt. But in this jewel of a book, Hal Urban — parent, award-winning teacher, and author of the classic Life's Greatest Lessons — shows us simple and immediate ways that we can use language to change lives — both our own and those around us.

Pre-Referral Intervention Manual

Stephen B. McCarney, Kathy Cummins Wunderlick, Angela M. Bauer

Preventing School Violence #1-20

Channing Bete Preventing School Violence

Identifies the reasons some students resort to violence, the kinds of violent acts they commit, and the consequences of violent behavior. Motivates students to understand anger and learn how to resolve conflicts peacefully. 16 pages, 5 1/2" x 8"

Productive Conflict Resolution: A Comprehensive Curriculum and Teacher's Guide for Conflict Resolution Education Grades 9-12

Colorado School Mediation Project This curriculum offers educators a comprehensive set of lessons, integration strategies, background material and articles. It is experiential, professionally developed, laid out in scope and sequence, and culturally sensitive. It is also designed to help teachers integrate lessons into pre-existing subjects. Chapter titles include: Building Community, Rules and Laws, Understanding Conflict, Listening Skills, Expression Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Valuing Diversity, Media Literacy, Forgiveness and Reconciliation.
Additional sections include: Integrating Problem Strategies in the Classroom, Teaching Strategies, Using Cooperative Groups, Using Journals and Portfolios, Using Children’s Literature, Energizers, Student and Staff Surveys, and Curriculum Integration.

Promising Practices in Character Education: 12 Success Stories from Around the Country

Philip Fitch Vincent This book offers practical and usable strategies as school and communities collaborate to develop positive character in our young people.

Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators

Maurice J. Elias Fostering knowledgeable, responsible, and caring students is one of the most urgent challenges facing schools, families, and communities as we enter the 21st century. Promoting Social and Emotional Learning provides sound principles for meeting this challenge. This timely book addresses a crucial need among educators for a straightforward, practical guide to establishing high-quality social and emotional education programs. True academic success and lasting social effectiveness, the authors believe, require strong social and emotional skills.

Students today face unparalleled demands. In addition to achieving academically, they must learn to work cooperatively, make responsible decisions about social and health practices, resist negative peer and media influences, contribute constructively to their family and community, function in an increasingly diverse society, and acquire the skills, attitudes, and values necessary to become productive workers and citizens. A comprehensive, integrated program of social and emotional education can help students meet these many demands.

The authors draw upon the most recent scientific studies, the best theories, site visits carried out around the country, and their own extensive experiences to describe approaches to social and emotional learning for all levels. Framing the discussion are 39 concise guidelines, as well as many field-inspired examples for classrooms, schools, and districts. Chapters address how to develop, implement, and evaluate effective strategies. Educators who have programs in place will find ways to strengthen them. Those seeking greater direction will find an abundance of approaches and ideas. Appendixes include a curriculum scope for preschool through grade 12 and an extensive list of contacts that readers may follow up for firsthand knowledge about effective social and emotional learning programs.

Protecting You, Protecting Me: An Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum Grade 1

MADD and Hazelden Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM) is a SAMHSA Model, 5-year (grades 1-5), classroom based alcohol-use prevention curriculum produced in collaboration by Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Hazelden. It's designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in our nation's youth.
PY/PM:
Is proven to change students' knowledge about their brains and personal development
Improves elementary students' vehicle safety skills
The curriculum:
Incorporates the latest research on human brain development
Focuses on the immediate risks of using alcohol before age 21
Includes parental involvement activities
Grade 1 program materials include:
a binder containing an implementation manual for teachers with step-by-step instructions to complete eight lessons
a fidelity checklist to monitor implementation quality
a scope and sequence that details learning outcomes
a parent letter in English and Spanish
3 storybooks, 7 posters

Protecting You, Protecting Me: An Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum Grade 2

MADD and Hazelden Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM) is a SAMHSA Model, 5-year (grades 1-5), classroom based alcohol-use prevention curriculum. It was produced in collaboration by Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Hazelden. It is designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in our nation's youth.
PY/PM:
Is proven to change students' knowledge about their brains and personal development
Improves elementary students' vehicle safety skills
The curriculum:
Incorporates the latest research on human brain development
Focuses on the immediate risks of using alcohol before age 21
Includes parental involvement activities
Grade 2 program materials include:
a binder containing an implementation manual for teachers with step-by-step instructions to complete eight lessons
a fidelity checklist to monitor implementation quality
a scope and sequence that details learning outcomes
a parent letter in English and Spanish
1 poster

Protecting You, Protecting Me: An Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum Grade 3

MADD and Hazelden Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM) is a SAMHSA Model, 5-year (grades 1-5), classroom based alcohol-use prevention curriculum. It was produced in collaboration by Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Hazelden. It is designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in our nation's youth.
PY/PM:
Is proven to change students' knowledge about their brains and personal development
Improves elementary students' vehicle safety skills
The curriculum:
Incorporates the latest research on human brain development
Focuses on the immediate risks of using alcohol before age 21
Includes parental involvement activities
Grade 3 program materials include:
a binder containing an implementation manual for teachers with step-by-step instructions to complete eight lessons
a fidelity checklist to monitor implementation quality
a scope and sequence that details learning outcomes
a parent letter in English and Spanish
2 posters

Protecting You, Protecting Me: An Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum Grade 4

MADD and Hazelden Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM) is a SAMHSA Model, 5-year (grades 1-5), classroom based alcohol-use prevention curriculum. It was produced in collaboration by Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Hazelden. It is designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in our nation's youth.
PY/PM:
Is proven to change students' knowledge about their brains and personal development
Improves elementary students' vehicle safety skills
The curriculum:
Incorporates the latest research on human brain development
Focuses on the immediate risks of using alcohol before age 21
Includes parental involvement activities
Grade 4 program materials include:
a binder containing an implementation manual for teachers with step-by-step instructions to complete eight lessons
a fidelity checklist to monitor implementation quality
a scope and sequence that details learning outcomes
a parent letter in English and Spanish
3 posters

Protecting You, Protecting Me: An Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum Grade 5

MADD and Hazelden Protecting You/Protecting Me® (PY/PM) is a SAMHSA Model, 5-year (grades 1-5), classroom based alcohol-use prevention curriculum. It was produced in collaboration by Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Hazelden. It is designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death in our nation's youth.
PY/PM:
Is proven to change students' knowledge about their brains and personal development
Improves elementary students' vehicle safety skills
The curriculum:
Incorporates the latest research on human brain development
Focuses on the immediate risks of using alcohol before age 21
Includes parental involvement activities
Grade 5 program materials include:
a binder containing an implementation manual for teachers with step-by-step instructions to complete eight lessons
a fidelity checklist to monitor implementation quality
a scope and sequence that details learning outcomes
a parent letter in English and Spanish
1 poster
Protecting Our Brain DVD

Punished by Rewards

Alfie Kohn Criticizing a system of motivating through reward, a persuasive argument for motivating people by working with them instead of doing things to them uses the latest psychological research to emphasize its theory. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

Putting Parents at Ease: Nine Keys to Effective Parent-Teacher Conferences - 2 Audio Cassettes

Jim Fay Education expert Jim Fay shares the nine elements that guarantee successful parent-teacher conferences. These techniques show teachers how to make parents comfortable in the school setting.

Putting on the Brakes: Young People's Guide to Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Patricia O. Quinn, Judith M. Stern A guide to understanding and gaining control over attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Quit It!: A Teacher's Guide on Teasing and Bullying for Use With Students in Grades K-3

Merle Froschl, Barbara Sprung, Nancy Mullin-Rindler, Nan Stein, Nancy Gropper Now you can 'bullyproof' your K-3 classroom! This comprehensive teacher's guide does for K-3 what 'Bullyproof' did for fourth and fifth grade students. Classroom bullying is more prevalent than many educators think. How can you cope with a serious problem that is often not taken seriously? This book contains nine classroom lessons to help you and your students explore this topic. In addition, you'll get problem-solving assignments, literature connections, physical games and exercises, reproducible worksheets, and family activity letters.

Also available:

Quality Full-day Kindergarten: Making the Most of It - ISBN 081061149X
Moving Toward an Integrated Curriculum in Early Childhood Education - ISBN 0810603675

The NEA Professional Library is the book publishing arm of the National Education Association. Our books are enjoyed by teachers, education students, education support professionals, higher education faculty and retired educators. Our mission is to provide timely and topical titles that enhance the professional lives of our members.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

-Classroom Teaching Skills - The NEA Checklist series
-Student Achievement
-Professional Development
-Peer Support
-Classroom Management
-Assessment & Standards-Based Education
-School and Classroom Resources

Reaching Out to Children with FAS/FAE: A Handbook for Teachers, Counselors, and Parents Who Live and Work with Children Affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Diane Davis There has been an increase in awareness and understanding in recent years of the challenges faced by children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, formely known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effects. With their tendency to impulsive behavior, poor cause-and-effect thinking, emotional immaturity, and inability to handle stress, they can be uniquely resistant to traditional discipline and ordinary parenting or teaching techniques. Yet they can also be sweet, charming, engaging and loveable critters. They benefit from structure, routine, self-contained classrooms, stable home lives, reasonable expectations, positive discipline, and 24-hour supervision. They also benefit from the creative ideas and exercises that fill this book. Their caregivers will, too.
From sample IEPs and behavior contracts to stress-relieving exercises and communication games, this book is filled with calm, positive, rational plans for working with children with FAS/FAE. Illustrate conflict resolution with a plastic hamburger. Visualize an “on-off switch” to work on impulse control. Portray negative self-talk as an ugly green puppet. Have kids smack a crib mattress instead of a classmate, tear paper to release anger, blow up balloons to expend energy. By turning abstract feelings and impulses into concrete activities, these exercises help children with FAS/FAE deal with their emotions and give their caregivers something easy and effective to do to help.

Reading for character: 40 lessons for middle school classrooms based on The Book of Virtues

Linda G Shail The character traits children assimilate during their growing-up years will determine how they behave, how they see themselves, how they treat others, and the type of adults they will become. Children who develop character built on honesty, respect, diligence, and self control will be better able to handle the frustrations and disappointments of life without giving up, losing control, or hurting others physically or emotionally. They will also gradually become self directed and self motivated, able to work cooperatively with others, and will be headed toward being good citizens in their communities. Most of the lessons in this book use literature, in particular "The Book of Virtues" by William Bennett as well as stories, poems, and articles, to raise character issues—students are asked to ponder the moral issue the story raises and to consider and discuss this in light of their own beliefs and experiences. All lessons in the book lend themselves to discussion in small groups or in the classroom and include space for writing. The book's 40 lessons focus on the following character traits: Morality, Peacemaking, Cooperation, Responsibility, Self Motivation, Perseverance, Respect, Self Control, Patience, Trust, Honesty, Self Respect, Compassion, and Kindness.

Ready or Not: Talking with Kids About Alcohol - Copy 1

The Century Council "Ready or Not" is an innovative, timely, common sense guide for parents and other adult supervisors of kids in the Middle School Years. "Middle School? You're talking fourteen or twelve or even ten year olds?" YES. Experts in alcohol abuse will tell you that today's kids have to deal with drinking issues at a much, much younger age. This Facilitator's Guide, Situation Cards, and Video take you through the steps needed to successfully prevent underage drinking problems. Guide is 20 pages. Video is 30 Minutes, 20 Situation Cards

Ready or Not: Talking with Kids About Alcohol - Copy 2

Ready-To-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 1-3

Society for Prevention of Violence (Ohio), Ruth Weltmann Begun In the early primary school years, children need to learn certain social skills to be successful in school and out. Some children have already mastered handling disappointment and working out differences with others, but many children struggle with the social skills that are expected of them. To help students of all skill levels, the author of the highly praised Ready-To-Use Violence Prevention Skills Lessons & Activities for Elementary Students presents this practical book that gives teachers and specialists a stimulating, systematic way to develop positive social behaviors in students through awareness, discussion, and rehearsing new behaviors. It offers over 50 detailed lesson plans and practice worksheets based on real-life situations. These age-appropriate lessons help children build self-esteem, self-control, respect for the rights of others, and a sense of responsibility for one's own actions. Printed in a spiral-bound 8 1/4" x 11" format, the pages can be easily photocopied for use by the whole class or for individuals as the need to work on a particular skill arises.

Ready-To-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades Prek-K

Ruth Weltmann Begun This resource is part of the four-volume Social Skills Curriculum Library, a practical series designed to help you teach positive behavior skills to student of all abilities. Students learn such social skills as dealing with anger productively ... setting goals ... building self-confidence ... dealing with prejudice... and more.

Ready-to-Use Violence Prevention Skills Lessons & Activities for Secondary Students Copy 1

Ruth Weltmann Begun, Frank J. Huml Two self-contained volumes, for the elementary and secondary levels, featuring a ready-to-use curriculum of lessons and reproducible activity sheet to help students build character, recognize threatening situations, and handle conflicts safely. Lessons are based on real situations in students' own lives, with topics such as stimulant use, dealing with anger, family relationships, choosing friends wisely, and gang-related activities. Includes detailed lesson plans and an extensive bibliography of useful resources.

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Refusal Skills: Preventing Drug Use in Adolescents

Arnold P. Goldstein, Kenneth W. Reagles, Lester L. Amann Based on the Skillstreaming approach, this book provides a step-by-step method for teaching adolescents the skills they need to effectively refuse drugs and alcohol.

Relate & React: Skits for Developing Good Character in Real Life Situations for Grades 6-12

National Center for Youth Issues

Relationships and Communication Activities: Includes 90 Ready-To-Use Worksheets for Grades 7-12

Patricia Rizzo Toner The Just for the Health of It series is an unmatched tool for teaching basic health concepts and skills to students in grades 7-12. Features ready-to-use games, puzzles, worksheets, skits, and more. Each volume features 90 reproducible activities, a teacher's guide, and complete answer keys.

A Report to the Nation: Smart & Good High Schools: Integrating Excellence and Ethics for Success in School, Work, and Beyond

Thomas Lickona, Matthew Davidson Thomas Lickona and Matthew Davidson maintain that the best high schools have two great goals: to help students become smart and to help students become good, otherwise defined as the pursuit of excellence and ethics. In their Report to the Nation: Smart & Good High Schools, they identify character as the means to achieve both of these goals. Specifically, performance character is “the diligence, strong work ethic, positive attitude and perseverance needed to realize a student’s potential for excellence in
performance or achievement,” and moral character is “the integrity, respect, cooperation and justice needed to be ethical and fulfilled in relationships.” It is likely that all educators will see familiar ground in these two tenets, as they struggle with the need to balance students’ academic achievement with their development as honest, caring, responsible young people. The authors have created a model that starts with the formation of ethical learning communities, where all stakeholders—faculty and staff, students,
parents and the community—are committed to both academic excellence and ethics. The integration of these goals is supported by six principles: shared purpose and identity, alignment of practices with desired outcomes and relevant research, creation of a democratic community, continuous self-development, collective responsibility and a willingness to deal with the tough issues. Multiple “promising practices” are described for each of the six principles, such as developing an honor code, creating a student leadership team, and providing students with a demanding and meaningful curriculum. A similar format is used to present the reader with principles and promising practices for creating a professional ethical learning community, encompassing not only administrators and teachers, but all adults who come in contact with students in the school. These practices provide the adults with an enhanced professional environment by offering supportive strategies such as time to study new pedagogies or, opportunities to engage in data driven instruction.

The second half of this attractive, hands-on manual is devoted to an in depth discussion of student performance outcomes that the authors call “8 strengths of character.” They include: 1) the lifelong learner and critical thinker, 2) the diligent and capable performer, 3) the socially and emotionally skilled person, 4) the ethical thinker, 5) the respectful and responsible moral agent, 6) the self-disciplined person who pursues a healthy lifestyle, 7) the contributing community member and democratic citizen, and 8) the spiritual person engaged in crafting a life of noble purpose. As in the first half, promising practices range from the pursuit of excellence (e.g., “use a pedagogy that requires all students to achieve a specified level of mastery), to the development of ethics (e.g., “help students develop an ability to make well-reasoned ethical decisions.”) Along with numerous activities, this book offers “go-to” references for each of the principles, with additional on-line contacts. Readers are invited to visit their website (www.cortland.edu/character/highschool) for an updated list of practices, or to share their own ideas. Smart & Good High Schools is designed as a working manual for practitioners who seek to redesign
secondary schools with the dual goals of helping students reach their academic potential while becoming ethical, responsible, contributing members of society. It provides a framework for educators to create high
schools in which excellence and ethics are fully integrated. Supported by research and extensive visits to 24 diverse schools that have received external recognition, along with guidance from a national experts
panel and a national student leaders panel, Lickona and Davidson have succeeded in producing a book that can be used to implement a comprehensive program or dissected into useful bits and pieces according to the needs of the school. The first time I picked up the book, I found myself flipping to the sections that applied to current needs of my school, such as school advisories and mission statements. Once I had absorbed the suggestions in these areas, I was compelled to read the entire book to get the “big picture” for building a learning community that fosters excellence and ethics. Although some readers may be affronted by the section on spirituality and the soul, it is unlikely that they will challenge many of the specific principles in this unit, such as the value of self-reflection in the quest to live a life of meaning. With a little personal editing, this section can be useful even to those who believe that religion should not be discussed in public schools. The authors maintain their focus on guiding students to be the best that they can be in both personal endeavors and interpersonal relationships. Certainly, the high school years are a critical time for a young person to develop his/her sense of self in relation to others. At a time when secondary educators are searching for ways to connect youth to both academic achievement and admirable character development, Lickona and Davidson give educators a useful resource for integrating values education in a high school community.

The Resilient Self: How Survivors of Troubled Families Rise Above Adversity

Steven J. Wolin M.D. A guide to self-empowerment designed to help adult children of dysfunctional families free themselves from the past discusses characteristics that allow individuals to cope with trauma and forge a healthy life and explains how to develop such traits. 25,000 first printing.

Resolving Conflicts: A Handbook for Students

Laura Baselice, Lynn W. Kloss, Keisha Carter Teach students to apply conflict-resolution strategies in their everyday lives
This single-volume worktext features short, high-interest activities that promote skills in resolving conflicts and recognizing appropriate behaviors in oneself and others. Activities are designed to help build self-esteem and confidence and employ skills such as listening, negotiating, and mediating. This program also helps to reduce prejudice, increase tolerance, and promote cultural awareness. An interdisciplinary approach is taken, drawing on social studies, language arts, health, and other skills to teach the concepts. INCLUDES TEACHER'S RESOURCE MANUAL

Resource Guide: Middle Schools - Creating a Culture and Climate for Success

Safe and Drug Free Schools This middle school rsource guide for Creating a Culture and Climate for Success is the result of collaboration among SS/HSI grant members and representation from the Safe and Drug Free Schools Office. It is to be used by educators to foster a positive school culture that nurtures the social and emotional growth and academic success of all students.

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SDFS Resource Guide/Middle School
Creating a culture and climate for success in Middle School
This middle school resource guide for Creating a Culture and Climate for Success is the result of collaboration among SS/HIS grant members and representation from the Safe and Drug Free Office. It is to be used by educators to foster a positive school culture that nurtures the social and emotional growth and academic success of all students.

The goals and objectives of the SS/HIS grant project are aligned with state education standards and mandates, district initiatives, and the goals of site-based School Improvement Plans. This guide was designed to accommodate the individual needs of our middle schools and the students they serve. The resources contained in this guide are being made available through the SS/HIS grant project to sustain efforts to enhance school safety by helping our students develop the skills and emotional resilience needed to promote healthy child development while reducing those risk factors associated with school violence.

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Respect Bingo for Grades 2-5

MaryAnn Hudgins Respect is a character trait that is hoped for, emphasized, and cherished both at school, at home, and in the community. It is a characteristic that, when possessed, helps to bring success to a person’s goals and dreams as well as to their relationships with both peers and adults.

There are many ways to help students understand and develop respect for themselves and others. Respect Bingo is one of these. In this game-like format students learn actions that contribute to their own well being as well as the actions that help others to form positive opinions about them. Each game-board has five columns: caring for self, working with others, fairness in play, responsibility at home, and trustworthy actions. The leader draws a calling card, calls out the title of the column and then the action associated with it. Players can then cover a square on their card if they have one that matches what has been called. Also included are reproducible activity sheets which will further reinforce the concepts being presented.

Respect, Desmond D. Duck, Character Classics, Sing-A-Story Hardback and Music CD Teacher's Guides available

Tony Salerno Desmond D. Duck has no respect for anyone or anything and his beak is always getting him into trouble. After losing all of his friend and being grounded for a week, Desmond D. learns to watch his beak before he speaks!
This charming story will delight children as they may see themselves in the character of Desmond D. Duck with his lack of respect. They learn that mouthing off with wise quacks or a disrespectful attitude will not het them their desired results!

Respect: A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect & Dealing When Your Line Is Crossed

Courtney Macavinta, Andrea Vander Pluym To be respected, girls need to know how they want to be treated, treat themselves that way, and let others know (respectfully, of course) to do the same. This smart, savvy book helps teen girls get respect and hold on to it no matter what. It covers topics they deal with daily, like body image, family, friends, the media, school, relationships, and rumors. It confronts tough issues like sexual harassment, date rape, sex, drugs, and alcohol. And it debunks the myths and stereotypes that hold girls back. Sidebars, scenarios, quotes from teens, tips, definitions, activities, and writing exercises get girls' attention and keep them involved. The understanding, supportive "big sister" style inspires trust. Girls learn that respect is connected to everything, that every girl deserves respect, and that respect is always within reach because it starts on the inside.

Responsibility Bingo for Grades 1-6

MaryAnn Hudgins Responsibility is a key word in character education. This bingo game addresses the five areas in which a person should be responsible—self, home, friends, school, and the world.

Responsibility for self includes actions such as wearing clean clothes, avoiding drugs, resisting peer pressure, and reading good books. Responsibility for the world includes recycling, turning lights off when not needed, and picking up trash on the ground. Home responsibilities include cleaning your room, feeding your pets daily, and putting dirty dishes in the sink. School responsibilities include following directions, writing neatly, and listening. Responsibilities to friends include taking turns, talking out problems, and being honest. Each responsibility topic has at least nine issues. Also included are reproducible activity sheets to further extend these concepts. Packaged in a zip lock plastic bag for easy storage.

Responsibility Training: Positive Discipline in the Enriched Classroom

Norma True Spurlock Responsibility Training is a book written from Norma's many years of direct classroom experience at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School. The book is filled with practical skills-based modules for implementing an emotionally intelligent, punishment-free, self-esteem building classroom. It is available directly from Norma.
Purpose - The purpose of Responsibility Training is to teach children to be responsible for their actions by helping them learn to take effective control of their own behavior. Because the way children are treated in school plays a critical role in the development of their attitude toward themselves and learning, we accept responsibility for being certain that discipline is treated as a non-punitive learning experience.
Goals - The short-term goal of Responsibility Training is to keep order in the classroom without the use of punishment. We use no pain to teach.
Long Term Goals - To strengthen students by teaching them to make good choices.
Objectives:
• Help students assume responsibility and respect for others in school, community and country.
• Help students develop in academic areas commensurate with their abilities.
• Teach students skills that help them function successfully in society.
• Help students create a positive self-image with cooperation and participation of the home, community and school staff.
Methods for Reaching Goals and Objectives
• To build positive relations with students
• Establish a cooperative, predictable environment
• Define mistakes as learning opportunities
• Use natural and logical consequences and restitution
• Use the Socratic method
• Teach students the skills of conflict resolution
• Use frequent class meetings
• Use time out as a positive planning time
• Make school so great the students never want miss it

Results from the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings

SAMHSA Results from the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings

The Right Thing: An Exploration of Ethics for High School Students

Martin Marietta Specialty Components, Inc. The Right Thing is a collection of real-life scenarios, each presenting an ethical dilemma for student exploration. Solutions to life's problems are not always obvious. It is in those gray areas of daily living where we make decisions based on our ethics. Ethics refers to standards of conduct which indicate how one should behave based on moral duties and virtues arising from principles about right and wrong. As a result of this exploration, students will learn to recognize and apply ethical values in their own lives.

Role Models: Examples of Character & Leadership

Ph.D. Joseph M. Hoedel Unfortunately, many kids today report they do not have role models. Other times, the role model is, at best, a curious choice. Role Models: Examples of Character and Leadership, highlights 17 individuals who each exemplify a different character trait including: perseverance, respect, honesty, attitude, integrity, courage, and tolerance to name a few. This book offers a mix of historical figures that have stood the test of time like Amelia Earhart, Booker T. Washington and Helen Keller, as well as contemporary figures that are worthy of our admiration, such as Tiger Woods, Christopher Reeve and Oprah Winfrey.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry with Teacher Resource Guide

Mildred D. Taylor The "vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other and their land give them the strength to defy rural Southern racism during the Depression"—Booklist, starred review).

Rules and Procedures for Character Education

Dr Philip Fitch Vincent hows you how to:
• develop rules based on good character
• incorporate student input into rules
• motivate students to do well based on developing the habits of good behavior
• obtain positive behavior from students without resorting to continual use of external rewards or controls
• develop fair but firm and most importantly consistent consequences to disobeying rules and procedures
• involve the entire staff in the process

Safe at School: Awareness and Action for Parents of Kids Grades K-12

Carol Silverman Saunders, Pamela Espeland We want to believe our schools are safe, but how safe are they?Especially in light of the recent, tragic shootings in towns like Springfield, OR, Conyers, GA and Littleton, CO, parents are running scared.Each year in schools across the United States, more than 3 million crimes are committed, over 9,000 fires break out, and hundreds of thousands of students are injured. Administrators are overwhelmed, underfunded, and sometimes unresponsive.It's time to revisit what we can do to combat a rash of violence, and make schools safer in general - from the bus to the playground, the lunchroom to the science lab.Safe at School gives you the knowledge and skills you need to take action, be heard and get results.It covers every school safety problem you can think of - guns, drugs, supervision, disaster preparation, sexual harassment, asbestos in the air, lead in the water, bullies, class trips, school maintenance, and many more.Step-by-step actions plans explain how to identify safety problems at your child's school, how to form a parent safety group (there's strength in numbers), and how to hold schools accountable for your child's safety.Safe at School is the best kind of bedside reading - the kind that makes you sleep more soundly at night knowing you're taking steps to ensure the safety of your child.

Salvaging Sisterhood

Julia V. Taylor Salvaging Sisterhood is a group curriculum designed to teach relationally aggressive girls how to effectively communicate with one another, opposed to about one another. It explores the important dynamics of female friendships and is designed to:

Raise awareness about relational aggression
Help girls develop empathy
Lessen incidence of gossip, rumor spreading, and backstabbing
Teach girls to stand up for themselves, without involving a third party
Help girls develop a strong sense of self
Teach healthy conflict
Teach girls to diffuse their anger, without disrespecting each other
Provide a safe, educational, and fun environment for girls to explore and share their feelings related to girl bullying

Although the intention for Salvaging Sisterhood is to be conducted in a small group format, most of the activities can be adapted for classroom counseling and large group settings. It can be used by professional school counselors, teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, psychologists, community leaders, and/or parents. Salvaging Sisterhood will teach girls how to be positive leaders and role models, without being mean.

Say Something

Peggy Moss At this school, there are some children who push and tease and bully. Sometimes they hurt other kids by just ignoring them. The girl in this story sees it happening, but she would never do these mean things herself. Then one day something happens that shows her that being a silent bystander isn't enough. Will she take some steps on her own to help another kid?

Bright, fluid, realistic watercolors illustrate the story, set in a school with lots of diversity. Resources at the end of the book will help parents and children talk about teasing and bullying and find ways to stop it at school. One child at a time can help change a school.

School Crisis Management: Team Training Guide

Kendall Johnson This definitive illustrated guide helps schools develop contingency plans and train on-site response teams in crisis management. Updated with new information on the impact of crisis on children, detailed strategies and procedures teach how to manage any emergency that may hit a school. 100 charts can be reproduced as overheads or copied for training sessions.

The School for Quality Learning: Managing the School and Classroom the Deming Way

Donna K. Crawford, Richard J. Bodine, Robert G. Hoglund This book is based on the belief that the American education system is in crisis and requires radical systemic change. Because this change is to be designed and carried out by those within schools and not through external mandates, the book focuses on the management responsibilities of the principal and teachers. It draws heavily on the psychological theories of William Glasser and the management principles of W. Edwards Deming, calling for an outcome-based approach to education. However, the book does not subscribe to the conservative agenda advocated by business and industry, which calls for more testing. The 18 chapters in the book are divided into 3 parts. Part 1 outlines Deming's 14 points and Glasser's control theory and applies them to education. Part 2 examines the role of the principal as lead manager and the principal-teacher relationship. The principal's primary mission is to facilitate the teachers' efforts to organize the classroom for quality learning and exercise leadership in the development of a positive and healthy school climate. Several chapters describe the principal's role in the following areas: consensus decision making, staff development and selection, discipline, family involvement, and district responsibilities. Part 3 describes ways in which teachers can manage the classroom to promote quality learning, with a focus on developing an integrated curriculum, facilitating learning, and establishing noncoercive guidelines for classroom behavior. Appendices contain questions and answers for understanding and implementing the transformation stages and assessment scales. Nine figures and 10 tables are included. Contains 57 references and an index.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action

Joyce L. Epstein, Dr. Lucretia Coates, Karen Clark Salinas, Mavis G. Sanders, Beth S. Simon A practical guide on how to plan, implement and improve your school, family and community partnerships, this book takes you step-by-step from planning to implementation to results.

The Secret Elephant

Jan Blauvelt A book about alcoholism. Discusses denial, enabling, protection, and the roles of family members using the analogy of an elephant in the house.

See My Pain! Creative Strategies and Activities for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure

Susan Bowman, Kaye Randall This book provides a collection of strategies and activities to help children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A variety of hands-on creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in private practice and school settings. When working with youth who self-injure it is helpful to have a variety of creative approached at your fingertips. The approaches and activities in this book can be used with individuals or with a small group. The activities help children/adolescents to express their feelings, understand why they self-injure, engage in a healing process, explore new methods of coping and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives.

This book provides a description of self-mutilation in young people and its underlying causes. Then, an overview of therapeutic approaches is presented along with suggestions for the professional counselor/social worker/psychologist, teachers and parents. Sample assessment questions and activities are included. The following 15 strategies with activities are reproducibles are featured:

- Crucial Communication Skills
- Personal Strength Coaching
- Visual Arts
- Sand Tray
- Story Telling
- Creative Dramatics
- Prayer Power
- Clay
- Creative Journaling
- Relaxation/Guided Imagery
- Metaphors
- Music
- Tactile Diversion
- Animals and Nature
- Mentoring

Self-Control to the Rescue, Self-Control and Music CD (Teacher Guide Available under Character Classics)

Tony Salerno In the song Self Control, children learn that when they are tempted to do something they souldn't, they need to practice a little self-control. The colorful illustrations and delightful characters bring to life everyday situations where children need self-control to not eat everything in sight or kick and scream and make a big scene. What is a child supposed to do when a sign says Don't Tough? This calls for self-control!

The Self-Esteem Teacher: Seeds of Self-Esteem

Robert B. Brooks With an engaging anecdotal style, Dr. Brooks presents a framework and strategies for nurturing self-esteem in students. Learn how to integrate self-esteem with all areas of the curriculum.

Ser Padres Con Amor Y Logica: Como Ensenar Responsabilidad a Los Ninos

Foster W. Cline, Jim Fay This text is in Spanish. Usted criara ninos que son seguros de si mismos, racionales y listos para el mundo verdadero con esta guia para padres que desean triunfar. Sus ninos tendran la ventaja de aprender a resolver sus propis problemas, al mismo tiempo que adqquieren la seguridad en si mismos que necesitan para enfrentar los desafios de la vida. Ademas, usted tendra la ventaja de establecer un control saludable, sin necesidad de enojos, ameazas, reganos o agotadores conflictos para mantener la autoridad. Ser padres con amor y logica revive la alegria de ser padres.

Service Learning in Grades K-8: Experiential Learning That Builds Character and Motivation

Katherine Thomsen The author examines the beneficial effects of service learning, offers examples of curriculum-based and community-based projects, and explains how to start a successful program.

Service Learning: A Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Assessing Student Projects

Sally Berman Through nine exciting service learning projects, students gain the unique opportunity for authentic learning experiences both in the classroom and in their surrounding community.

The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly: Character Based Learning Activities for Developing Emotional, Social, and Thinking Skills

George L. Rogers Video Tour, Print Edition Tour of The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly

Seven Ways of Teaching: The Artistry of Teaching with Multiple Intelligences

David Lazear This guide provides a rationale and approach for translating Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences into classroom practice. The introduction explains Gardner's theory, gives the definitions of the seven intelligences he identifies—verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, body/kinesthetic, musical/rhythmic, interpersonal, intrapersonal—and defines specific capacities that are related to these intelligences. The seven chapters present model lessons that emphasize one of the intelligences as the primary mode of knowing and learning. Each of these lessons includes: (1) a lesson pallet that helps teachers select the appropriate tools for the intelligence being emphasized; (2) a brief overview of the processes of awakening, amplifying, teaching and transferring as they apply to the intelligence being emphasized in the lesson; (3) the lesson procedures; (4) suggestions for adapting the lesson to needs different from the proposed grade level; (5) assessment tips; (6) lesson pallets designed to help teachers reflect on how a past or future lesson could be restructured to incorporate the intelligence being emphasized in the lesson; and (7) a chart of ideas for lessons in a given intelligence area. The appendices contain helpful examples of lesson procedures and graphic organizers, a glossary, and 110 references.

Sexual Harassment and Teens: A Program for Positive Change

Susan Strauss, Pamela Espeland Sexual harassment, a pervasive social problem, has become a major issue in senior high, junior high, and even elementary schools. Unhealthy and negative sexual attitudes and behaviors are prevalent among adolescents, and they escalate when ignored. Sexual Harassment and Teens explores and addresses the causes and consequences of sexual harassment. Aimed at teachers and youth leaders of students in Grade 7-12, the book provides a classroom-tested, proactive program for teaching sexual harassment awareness and prevention.

Sexual harassment: Pick and choose activities for grades 7-12

Betty M Hubbard Over 35 classroom activities cover the subject of sexual harassment. Seven cover
definitions, 12 promote identification, 10 explore causes, and 7 practice skills
learned. Each activity lists time and materials needed, background information,
and step-by-step procedures. Reproducible student activity sheets are included.

Skill-Streaming the Adolescent: A Structured Learning Approach to Teaching Prosocial Skills

Arnold P. Goldstein This set of materials on the Skillstreaming methodology for training adolescents in social skills, especially students who are chronically aggressive, includes a book which explains the entire program, a student manual, a collection of program forms, and a box of skill cards for use with students. Chapter 1 of the book examines the nature and impact of aggressive students and explains the goal of Skillstreaming as the explicit teaching of alternative prosocial behaviors. Chapter 2 reviews the program's history and development. Chapter 3 focuses on program implementation factors and chapter 4 details procedures for conducting a Skillstreaming group. A transcript of a group session illustrating these procedures constitutes chapter 5. Chapter 6 presents 50 skills with their component behavioral steps. Chapter 7 addresses skill sequences and consequences. Chapter 8 considers issues of trainee motivation and resistance, while chapter 9 discusses ways to enhance generalization of skill performance. Chapter 10 looks at safety in the school setting. The final chapter considers future directions and opportunities. Appendices include a bibliography, checklists, grouping guides, and materials for other instructional levels. The student manual, collection of forms, and 400 skill cards (eight cards for each skill to use with eight students) are designed to facilitate implementation of the Skillstreaming methodology. (Contains approximately 130 references.)

Skill-Streaming the Adolescent: A Structured Learning Approach to Teaching Prosocial Skills - Revised Edition

Arnold P. Goldstein and Ellen McGinnis This set of materials on the Skillstreaming methodology for training adolescents in social skills, especially students who are chronically aggressive, includes a book which explains the entire program, a student manual, a collection of program forms, and a box of skill cards for use with students. Chapter 1 of the book examines the nature and impact of aggressive students and explains the goal of Skillstreaming as the explicit teaching of alternative prosocial behaviors. Chapter 2 reviews the program's history and development. Chapter 3 focuses on program implementation factors and chapter 4 details procedures for conducting a Skillstreaming group. A transcript of a group session illustrating these procedures constitutes chapter 5. Chapter 6 presents 50 skills with their component behavioral steps. Chapter 7 addresses skill sequences and consequences. Chapter 8 considers issues of trainee motivation and resistance, while chapter 9 discusses ways to enhance generalization of skill performance. Chapter 10 looks at safety in the school setting. The final chapter considers future directions and opportunities. Appendices include a bibliography, checklists, grouping guides, and materials for other instructional levels. The student manual, collection of forms, and 400 skill cards (eight cards for each skill to use with eight students) are designed to facilitate implementation of the Skillstreaming methodology. (Contains approximately 130 references.)

Skillstreaming in Early Childhood: Teaching Prosocial Skills to the Preschool and Kindergarten Child

Ellen McGinnis, Arnold P. Goldstein Teaching prosocial behavioral alternatives at an early age may enhance a child's personal development and help prevent more serious difficulties in later childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. This book provides classroom teachers and others working with young children with a guiding strategy and concrete techniques for instruction in prosocial skills. The skillstreaming method systematically teaches behaviors necessary for effective social interactions. Sample reports, checklists, handouts, and forms are included. Following an introduction that provides a rational for teaching prosocial skills and discusses who benefits from skillstreaming, the chapters of the book are: (1) "Components of Skillstreaming," focusing on modeling, role playing, performance feedback, and transfer training; (2) "Identifying and Evaluating Children for Skillstreaming," including assessment methods, peer nomination, roster rating scales, naturalistic rating scales, analogue observation, behavior rating scales, and self-reports; (3) "Planning and Beginning Skillstreaming Instruction"; (4) "Implementing Skillstreaming Instruction," including enhancing motivation, identifying situations, and presenting behavioral steps; (5) "Prosocial Skills," presenting the skillstreaming curriculum, a set of 40 skills divided into six skill groups; and (6) "Managing Behavior Problems," describing a six-step management plan with techniques for dealing with problematic behaviors. Contains 148 references.

Skillstreaming the Adolescent: A Structured Learning Approach to Teaching Prosocial Skills

Ellen McGinnis, Arnold P. Goldstein This book and audiocassette series program is designed to help teens increase self-esteem and develop competence in dealing with peers, family and authority figures by utilizing teacher modeling, student role playing, group performance feedback and transfer training.

Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head

Carla Hannaford How is the body involved in learning from infancy right through adulthood? Physical activity is crucial. A neuroscientist explains why and gives simple physical exercises that can increase anyone's learning power immediately. It explores brain development, neurological effects of TV, nutrition, stress, and causes of the growing plague of learning disabilities.

Special Situations: 27 Classroom Lessons for Grades K-5

et al. Rob Hawkins Each of these 27 lessons is by a different author and contains an introductory activity, original story, questions for discussion, and a supplementary activity. The topics covered: academic improvement, bullying, career awareness, conflict management, family relationships, feelings, introducing the counselor, perfection, personal improvement, personal safety, tattling, teasing and taunting, and understanding others. Grades K-5.

Stand Up Against Bullies, Grades 3-5

Rosanne Sheritz Sartori This book will give you the tools needed to acquaint elementary-age school children with the information and skills needed to effectively deal with a bully attack. Using stories, role-play,and accompanying activities, children will learn 12 strategies to help them handle a bullying situation in a non aggressive manner. Grades 3-5. [8.5” x 11”...112 pages]

Staying Connected with Your Teen: A Program for Parents of Teens - Contains two versions: Workshop Leader's Guide and Self-Study Program

Families that Care The Staying Connected with Your Teen program is:
• research based — More and more research is demonstrating that one of the most critical factors in ensuring the well-being of today's adolescents is parent involvement. The Staying Connected with Your Teen program shows parents how to improve their family management practices and strengthen the bonds between them and their children, resulting in substance abuse prevention, violence prevention, and positive character development.
• proven effective — In a controlled study of the Staying Connected with Your Teen program (formerly known as Parents Who Care), participant families have shown statistically significant improvement in family discipline practices, supervision skills, and bonding, and significantly reduced family attitudes favorable to antisocial behaviors.
• flexible — The program may be implemented as either a traditional workshop series or a take-home self-study program.
• recognized as Effective by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide.

Staying Connected with Your Teen: A Program for Parents of Teens - Contains two versions: Workshop Leader's Guide and Self-Study Program Copy 2

Steps to Implementing a System-Wide or School-Wide Bully Free Program Copy 1

Allan L. Beane, Ph.D. The purpose of this book is to facilitate efforts to implement a Bully Free Program in your school system and/or school(s). If your school system or school has already initiated an anti-bullying program, this book can be used to strengthen your efforts and to fill gaps in the current program.

Steps to Implementing a System-Wide or School-Wide Bully Free Program Copy 2

Steps to Implementing a System-Wide or School-Wide Bully Free Program Copy 3

Steps to Implementing a System-Wide or School-Wide Bully Free Program Copy 4

Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medications for Kids, Revised Edition

Timothy E. Wilens MD Newly revised and expanded, this essential guide provides parents with the up-to-date information they need to fully understand what their child's doctor is recommending and what their options are. Packed with frequently asked questions, examples, and charts, the book explains which medications are prescribed for kids and why; their effects on health, emotions, and school performance; what parents can do to maximize their benefits; and when to consider other treatments instead.

Revised Edition Coverage Includes:
* New ways of dealing with side effects and protecting kids' safety
* Advances in treating specific disorders
* New and longer-acting medications that make administration easier
* Emerging research on long-term benefits and risks
* Tips for saving money on prescriptions
* Legislative and health care changes that affect children's treatment

StreetDrugs: A Drug Identification Guide 2008 Edition

StreetDrugs.org This 80 page book is filled with high-resolution photographs covering all commonly abused street drugs today. In addition to the 60+ drugs described, there are also sections on alcohol, tobacco, signs of drug use, drugs and the Internet, and first aid. This book is in high demand by schools, treatment centers, hospitals, and is used by law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. and world as a drug identification guide.

Substance abuse prevention: the missing pieces - Ready to Use Activities for Grades 7-12

Patricia Rizzo Toner, Daniel J. Toner Substance Abuse Prevention: The Missing Pieces

Grades 7-12
Easy and ready to use classroom activities and lesson plans that are a great resource for teaching the prevention, use and abuse of drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Covering the topics of decision-making, alcohol, drugs and tobacco, the activities are divided into sections that allow teachers to select an activity based on the curriculum being covered. Each lesson includes the National Health Standards covered, behavioral objectives, needed materials, complete instructions and suggestions for discussions. This 112-page, soft-covered book includes 51 reproducible activities and lessons. For use with students in grades 7-12. ©2008
Substance Abuse Prevention: The Missing Pieces activities meet National Family & Consumer Science Education Standards and National Health Standards.

Synergy Transformimg America's High Schools Through Integrated Thematic Instruction

Karen D. Olsen How to transform America's High Schools through four stages of curriculum development.

THE CHARACTER EDUCATION KIT/ 36 Weeks of Success/Elementary Edition

The MASTER Teacher Gives you more than 140 practical lessons developed and tested by teachers across the curriculum and in all grade levels.

Taking Charge of My Mind and Body: A Girls' Guide to Outsmarting Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking, and Eating Problems

Gladys Folkers, Jeanne Engelmann

Tales of Successes With Kids: From Parents and Educators Who Use Love and Logic

Jim Fay From Parents and Educators Who Use Love and Logic  Only read this book if:
• You want to learn how others were successful using Love and Logic
• You're looking for ideas on how to implement Love and Logic
• You want to protect your kids while they learn to protect themselves
• You want to hear heart-touching stories about kids of all ages

Tales of Successes With Kids: From Parents and Educators Who Use Love and Logic

Jim Fay

Talk With Teens About Self and Stress: 50 Guided Discussions for School and Counseling Groups

Jean Sunde Peterson, Pamela Espeland Written to meet the affective need of adolescent students to share their feelings and concerns with supportive listeners, this document contains 50 guided discussions on various topics relating to three focus areas: the self, the self and others, and stress. Under the focus of the self topics include: personal strengths and limitations; behind the facade; going to extremes; who and what defines us; in control, out of control; making mistakes; and success and failure. Under the focus of the self and others topics include: how others see us; those who influence; responding to authority; who can we lean on; and tolerance and compassion. Under the area of stress topics include: sorting out the sources of stress; dealing with others' expectations; role models and strategies for coping with stress; substance abuse; and vulnerability to cults and demagogues. The discussions are intended to help students: (1) gain self-awareness; (2) make better decisions; (3) solve problems; and (4) deal more effectively with their various environments. Each discussion has a focus topic as well as objectives and suggestions of goals to work toward in each session. Several discussions include activity sheets that may be photocopied for group use. The discussion guides may be modified to deal with special populations such as at-risk students, gifted students, and students returning from or in treatment for substance abuse or eating disorders. The document also contains guidelines for group leaders that deal with: (1) ethical behavior; (2) dealing with students who are quiet or shy; (3) handling emotional bombshells; and (4) counseling individual group members.

Tardy Tim, Dependability and Music CD (Teacher Guide Available under Character Classics)

Tony Salerno Illustrated Hardcover book for use with music CD and Activity book. Ages 5-11. Tunes of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Offenbach and Gounod. One of 12 traits featured in the Character Classics series of Music and Character Education.

The Tator Tales: A Story and Activity Book on Handling Peer Pressure

Christine R. Gibson and J. Michael Hargrave This book is designed to provide children and adults with practical informaiton on handling peer pressure. Although the skills presented may be applied to a wide variety of situations, there is special emphasis on using them for drug abuse prevention. This is the first book in the Tator Tales series and is designed for children ages 8 through 12.

The Teacher's Encyclopedia of Behavior Management: 100 Problems/500 Plans

Randy Sprick, Lisa Howard More than 800 pages of positive and practical solutions to help teachers handle 100 common classroom problems.

For each misbehavior addressed, three to seven different plans allow you to select an intervention tailored to the purpose, duration and severity of the specific situation. Includes a comprehensive index and is extensively cross-referenced for ease of use.

Below is a listing of a few of the 100 problems addressed in this practical resource:

Absenteeism (10 pages)
Arguing—Students with the teacher (10 pages)
Blaming others/Excuses for everything (7 pages)
Cliques/Ganging up (10 pages)
Disruptive behavior—Moderate (12 pages)
Disruptive behavior—Severe (6 pages)
Forgetting materials (7 pages)
Homework issues (13 pages)
Transitions, problems with (6 pages)
Work completion—Daily work (14 pages)

The Teacher's Guide to Leading Student-Centered Discussions: Talking About Texts in the Classroom

Michael S. Hale, Elizabeth A. City Engage and enlighten students by skillfully guiding them through thought-provoking classroom discussions using these straightforward strategies.

Teaching Character : Parent's Guide

Karen D. Dotson, Anne C. Dotson 36 Character topics are introduced, each with a definition, traits, questions to discuss together, projects to do together, and specific ways to encourage the trait in your child.

Teaching Character Through Service: A Year's Worth of Activities for Kids Who Want to Make a Difference with CD

Marji Gold-Vukson These activites guide students as they identify and research problems and issues that affect our world today. Students are encouraged to formulate solutions and find support for their efforts. By taking part in service projects, setting good examples, and supporting worthwhile causes, students can help to make a significant difference in our world. Grades 4-8.

Teaching Character...In The Teenage Years: 36 Weeks of Daily Lessons for Grades 7-12

Cathy Moore Boshamer, Sadie Allran Broome, Nancy W. Henley Teaching Character in the Teenage Years continues the excellence established in the authors' previous books: Teaching Chatacter, It's Elementary and Teaching Character in the Middle Grades This book offers practical strategies and ideas for those working with teenagers from the middle grades through high school.
There are 720 activities that are divided into four possible years of implementation. THe lessons address the character goals of:
• citizenship
• responsibility
• respect
• courage
• kindness
• good judgement
• honesty
• perseverance
• self-discipline
• and fairness
This is an excellent tool for homeroom and/or advisor/advisee time or for an educator wanting to enrich her or her curriculum. This book belongs on the shelf of any educator who wishes to help develop the social and moral conscience of our youth.

Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom Copy 1

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