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For more classroom educational programs, browse our Online Teacher’s Store, where you’ll find hundreds of student educational videos, DVDs, manuals, PowerPoint presentations, online courses, software and more.
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Bullying Prevention: Taking Action - DVD

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You can deter bullying in the school environment by understanding the behavior and learning how to deal with it and taking action.

  • Learn what bullying is
  • Why children are reluctant to report it
  • Detection of bullying and intervention
  • How to deal with students involved
  • Working with parents

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

  • English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese
  • A Customizable PowerPoint™ Presentation – makes training site-specific; excellent for training different personnel and departments
  • Training Points – outlines key learning points of your training; reinforces important safety points to your employees.
  • Chapterized Content - video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates classroom discussion; ideal for refresher training, specific training points and navigating through the course.
  • Expanded Leader's Guide – excellent resource to help plan and implement your presentation. A quiz is provided that can serve as a pre and/or post evaluative tool.
  • Portable Convenience – perfect for those who train and travel!

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Conducting Parent-Teacher Conferences: A Partnership in Progress - DVD

Produced - 2007

To run a successful parent-teacher conference, educators need a wide range of skills at their disposal—and a healthy supply of confidence. This video builds both, providing solutions to the problems and frustrations that many teachers face when interacting with parents and guardians. The program explores step-by-step preparation strategies—including specific knowledge and data to have at hand, the best ways to introduce topics of concern and personalized feedback, and the communication and conflict-resolution skills needed to work effectively with parents. In-depth role-playing illustrates positive and negative ways in which a conference might play out and details the most compelling methods for conveying a student’s academic, social, and emotional progress. Interviews with teachers and parents reinforce essential concepts and highlight real-world challenges and rewards surrounding this vital part of education. A workbook designed especially for Professional Development workshop coordinators—containing video viewing instructions, a post-viewing discussion guide, and skill-building exercises—is also included. (32 minutes)

  • Conducting Parent-Teacher Conferences: A Partnership in Progress - DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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Preventing School Violence - DVD

Produced - 2001

With bullying, sexual harassment, and credible death threats on the rise, school is becoming less about learning and more about fear. This program from The Doctor Is In thoroughly examines violence among children and teens of both sexes. Innovative preventive measures yielding impressive results at Bartle Elementary in New Jersey and Lebanon Junior High in New Hampshire are featured. In addition, psychologist Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, presents his theories on improving the school environment and James Garbarino, author of Lost Boys, talks about the pressures that can lead to extreme acts of violence at school—even murder. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Production. (29 minutes)

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A Motivated Mind - DVD

Produced - 2006

If high test scores bring praise or treats, students will develop good study habits—according to commonsense thinking, at least. But conventional wisdom is changing. This two-part series sheds new light on the ways that children push their own limits, overcome challenges, and take pleasure in learning. Interviews with psychologists and education experts reveal counterintuitive but highly effective methods for building student confidence and achievement. Portions are in Korean with English subtitles. 2-part series, 42-46 minutes each.

The Series Includes: The Power to Overcome Failure | No Child Without Motivation

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Failing Grade - DVD

Produced - 2005

Use this ABC News program to explore links between a wide range of educational issues: school safety, overcrowding, privatization, and poor academic performance. The video takes viewers inside Chester High, a Pennsylvania school racked with security, staffing, and financial problems; in fact, Chester’s difficulties are so great that the company hired to run the school has pulled out. With commentary from many sectors of the community—including students, parents, school board members, and a young principal who tried to make a difference at Chester—Failing Grade sums up the frustrations of everyday people struggling to provide children with a decent education. (22 minutes)

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Cyberbullies - DVD

Produced - 2006

Chat rooms, blogs, and instant messaging have become standard forms of communication for many young people. Unfortunately, they have also become popular ways to bully and harass others. This program is designed to prevent children and teenagers from falling victim to cyberbullying, using dramatizations and Q & A discussions to expand awareness of the issue. The video discusses cyberbullying warning signs, common patterns of abuse, and questionable online activities and destinations to stay away from. It also presents strategies for responding when cyberbullying occurs, and outlines legal problems involving privacy and libel that young Internet users should be aware of A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. Correlates to all applicable state and national standards. (19 minutes)

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Preventing Sexual Harassment: What Educators Need To Know - DVD

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How does one define sexual harassment in schools -- among students, between a teacher and a student, among faculty members? A simple touch, frivolous word or an awkward glance can have hurtful and disastrous results. Includes a teacher's guide, 50 handbooks, handouts and a laminated poster.

  • Provides your faculty and students with the information needed to define inappropriate behavior
  • Reveals how their own actions might be offensive to others
  • Leads to a greater understanding of how innocent and even flattering behavior may offend others

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

  • English and Spanish language available on each DVD.
  • Expanded Leader’s Guide – excellent resource to help plan and implement your presentation. A quiz is provided that can serve as a pre and/or post evaluative tool.
  • Chapterized Content – facilitates classroom discussion; ideal for refresher training, specific training points and navigating through the course.
  • Customizable PowerPoint® – makes training site-specific; excellent for training different personnel and departments throughout your school.
  • Training Points – outlines key learning points of your training; reinforces important safety points to your employees.
  • Portable Convenience – perfect for those who train and travel!

  • Preventing Sexual Harassment: What Educators Need To Know - DVD $295.00 [Add to Cart]
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Respecting Diversity in the Classroom - DVD

Produced 1994

Too often educators look upon a multicultural classroom as a problem to be dealt with rather than a resource to be developed. Using actual classroom situations, this program is a "how to" primer offering innovative ideas about exploring the richness of culture and ethnicity. What is the difference between ethnicity and race? When children don’t respond, is it because of cultural differences or a teacher’s preconceived expectations? What roles can religion and language, both foreign and "street," play in the multicultural framework? What communication strategies best address differences in learning style and social interaction? This excellent workshop resource includes a 56-page facilitator’s guide with reproducible handouts. (60 minutes)

  • Respecting Diversity in the Classroom - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse - DVD

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This program discusses the warning signs of the four types of abuse and neglect, requirements for reporting and the HIPAA privacy issues that affect reporting and privacy.

  • Warning signs of abuse and neglect
  • The four types of abuse
  • Reporting abuse and neglect
  • Privacy issues
  • Responding to a child's disclosure

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

  • Multiple Languages - English and Spanish languages on each DVD.
  • Customizable PowerPoint® - makes training site-specific; perfect for training different personnel and departments throughout your school.
  • Expanded Leader’s Guide - excellent resource to plan and implement your presentation. A quiz is provided that serves as a pre-and/or post evaluative tool.
  • Chapterized Content - facilitates classroom discussion; ideal for refresher training, specific training points and navigation through the course.
  • Portable Convenience - great for those who train and travel!

Includes ten handbooks!

  • Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse - DVD $225.00 [Add to Cart]
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Only a Teacher: The Impact of Teachers on American Public Education - DVD

Produced - 2000

This outstanding three-part series narrated by Stockard Channing examines both the history of teaching in the U.S. and the current state of the teaching profession. Interviews with educators, historians, celebrities, and students; a wealth of archival materials; and evocative dramatizations tell with passion and due reflection the story of America’s promise to its children: the best education for everyone. 3-part series, 54-56 minutes each.

The Series Includes: A Teacher Affects Eternity | Those Who Can ... Teach | Educating to End Inequity

  • Only a Teacher: The Impact of Teachers on American Public Education - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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School Crisis Planning: Intruder Drill - DVD

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What should your staff do if there's an intruder on school premises? This vital program teaches staff and students to manage an intruder emergency by emphasizing the importance of prevention and preparation.

  • Preparing for a drill
  • Safety measures
  • Holding a practice drill

> Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

  • Multiple Languages - English and Spanish languages on each DVD.
  • Customizable PowerPoint® - makes training site-specific; perfect for training different personnel and departments throughout your school.
  • Expanded Leader’s Guide - excellent resource to plan and implement your presentation. A quiz is provided that serves as a pre-and/or post evaluative tool.
  • Chapterized Content - facilitates classroom discussion; ideal for refresher training, specific training points and navigation through the course.
  • Portable Convenience - great for those who train and travel!

Includes ten handbooks!

  • School Crisis Planning: Intruder Drill - DVD $225.00 [Add to Cart]
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Cultural Bias in Education - DVD

This program examines roadblocks to Latino academic advancement as well as productive educational models; explores the relationship of standardized testing and cultural diversity and questions whether cultural bias can be eliminated from standardized testing; and looks at early childhood education programs and the factors that deter Latino families from participating in them. (28 minutes)

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Evacuating The School Bus - DVD

Planning and practicing for evacuating the school bus

This program demonstrates:

  • Deciding when and when not to evacuate Safety and emergency equipment
  • Developing an evacuation plan
  • The Evacuation Drill: your chance to practice Driver Training

  • Preparing for the drill
  • Leading the drill
  • Rear door evacuation
  • Side door evacuation

    This video training program includes a facilitator's guide and driver workbook (master).

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    Taking a Stand: The Bullying Prevention Series - DVD

    Produced - 2006

    No longer a simple matter of schoolyard scuffles and “boys will be boys,” bullying is now recognized as a major threat to the education of America’s young people. Research shows that intimidation and humiliation among students involve both genders, affect young people of every background, and have become even more widespread with the help of digital technology. This three-part series helps students and teachers identify bullying activity, confront the instigators of it, and assist the victims—with the ultimate goal of preventing bullying in all its forms. Behavior and tactics specific to boy bullies, girl bullies, and cyberbullies are discussed at length in each of the respective videos, addressing the complexity of the issues with dramatized scenarios and peer discussions. Includes a 15-minute bonus video, A Teacher’s Guide to Bullying Prevention, that will help educators implement the overall program. Viewable/printable instructor’s guides are also available online. Correlates to all applicable state and national standards. Recommended for grades 7-12. 3-part series, 18-20 minutes each. Bonus video included with purchase of series.

    The Series Includes: Bullies | Cyberbullies | Bully Girls

    • Taking a Stand: The Bullying Prevention Series - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Crisis Preparedness For Schools - DVD

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    Crisis Preparedness For Schools will help your staff develop a proactive, organized and thought out plan for any emergency situation. The program covers assessing hazards, managing a crisis and discusses prevention to prepare for an emergency situation.

    • Planning Team Strategy
    • Prevention Mitigation
    • Preparedness
    • Response
    • Recovery

    Crisis response planning takes time, effort and resources. Ensure your school and staff is prepared with the best resource available to manage a crisis!