| | Safe & Drug-Free Schools Reference |
| | GUIDE |
| | TITLE | CHARACTER ED | LENGTH | INCLUDED | | VHS / | DVD | Intended Audience |
| | ACTING ON YOUR VALUES | 30 minutes | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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| | In this program, comedian/youth counselor Michael Pritchard, talks with students in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Minneapolis, to discover how our values can |
| | guide us in making choices that are right for us. It is a candid exploration of the values on which today's teens base their lives, where those values come from, and |
| | what meaning they have, as teenagers grow toward adulthood. Objectives: To stimulate young people to think critically about their behaviors and beliefs. To explore |
| | the benefits of knowing what our own values are. To discover how our values can serve as tools for making good choices. To reveal how living by our values |
| | gives us power over our lives and elevates our self esteem. |
| | BEING RESPONSIBLE | 25 minutes | K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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| | Rhonda Bird must choose between having a good time and taking her responsibilities seriously. When a chance to go to Disneyland conflicts with her commitment to |
| | work on a class project, Rhonda makes the responsible choice, winning the respect of her friends and making her feel very good about herself. |
| | BUILDING SELF CONFIDENCE | 38 minutes | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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| | CARING | 30 minutes | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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| | Caring is not just a way of feeling, it’s a way of behaving. This program teaches that what makes us caring people is doing caring things. We learn that caring |
| | people respond selflessly to the needs of others and treat others with kindness, concern, and generosity. And we see the stirring account of a teenage girl whose |
| | exemplary acts of caring have enriched the lives of disadvantaged children in her community. |
| | CHEATING, LYING AND STEALING | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| | Grades |
| | This excellent video creates realistic situations in which youngsters can examine their value systems and guide decision-making so poor decisions and their |
| | negative and destructive consequences can be avoided. |
| | CITIZENSHIP | 30 minutes | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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| | Citizenship, at its core, is social responsibility in action. This program considers what it means to be a good citizen - including doing your part for the common good, |
| | serving your community, and helping make our democracy work. And as proof that one person can make a big difference, we see the remarkable adventure of a |
| | teenage boy whose modest efforts at community service snowballed into legislative action that changed the way the state of Florida feeds its needy |
| | CLASSROOM OF THE HEART | 40 minutes | 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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| | In Classroom of the Heart, Guy Doud, former National Teacher of the Year, tells students about his own painful school days as a shy, overweight "loser". |
| | Communicating his message with humor and warmth, Guy inspires and challenges students with his simple truth: You begin to discover your own worth after you |
| | recognize the worth of others. Guy's talk, which takes place in a high school classroom setting is powerfully intertwined with another story, the dramatized true |
| | account of one of Guy's students, who has cancer. |
| | COOL TO BE ME : SELF ESTEEM | 25 minutes | 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
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| | A healthy sense of self can be a volatile quality in early adolescence, falling or rising depending on how young teens feel about themselves. Dramatic vignettes and |
| | thought-provoking discussion questions show streetwise middle schoolers how positive self-talk, and a belief in themselves as competent and capable, help to raise |
| | their self-esteem. |
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