101. Bullying: You Don't Have To Take It Anymore (Grades 7-12)
Bullying is one of the most underrated yet enduring problems in schools today and is a reality in the lives of all children whether they are bullies, victims or witnesses. Using dramatic scenarios, the differences between the way girls and boys bully are demonstrated. By seeing and hearing from experts in the field, this program will help students better understand what bullying is, how it affects victims and what can be done to improve the situation.
102. Hurting With Words: Understanding Emotional Violence and Abuse (Grades 7-12)
This program describes emotional violence as one person saying something that is hurtful to another and outlines the causes of many different types of emotional abuse: men to women, husbands to wives, parents to children, adults to children, and group to group. Students will understand that there are many successful methods of dealing with people who are verbally or emotionally abusive.
103. Conflicts, Communication and Relationships (Grades 7-12)
A series of vignettes describe typical conflicts between friends, siblings, parents and children, and an employee and boss. A leading psychologist shows how maximizing communication skills, listening skills, and mediation skills can help to resolve most conflicts. Finally, it will be your students' turn to take one of the situations and figure out what they would do to enhance the communication and resolve the conflict.
104. Solving Conflicts with Teachers, Parents and Peers (Grades 6-8)
This program delves into several types of conflicts students face at home, at school and in their neighborhoods. By using dramatic scenes, depicting common conflicts between parents, teachers and friends, and by hearing healthy solutions from real teens about how they deal with conflicts, viewers are challenged to reevaluate their own style of conflict resolution.
105. Tolerance: Responding to Differences (Grades 6-8)
Middle school years are typically when kids "make fun" of each other for differences in clothing, speech, physical traits and ethnicity. This program, consisting of four dramatic scenes and real-life interviews will challenge your students to look at each scene and determine what they would do in each situation. The program concludes with a section called "Tools for Tolerance" which demonstrates that the tools of empathy, respect, acceptance, and forgiveness can be used to develop more tolerant attitudes.
106. Dealing with Anger (Grades 6-8)
This program gives students the tools they need to recognize and deal with their own frustration and stress. The characters explore a variety of situations that can trigger angry feelings--Erin is rejected by a boyfriend, PJ is embarrassed in front of his peers, Toby is taunted by a classmate. Each scenario invites class discussion. For each, a positive strategy is offered for expressing and channeling anger.
107. No Name-Calling (Grades 4-8)
Experts agree that bullying and harassment in school usually starts with name-calling. This program demonstrates the damage that can be done when kids are targeted by hurtful words like "fatso," "retard," "faggot," and "bean pole." Viewers will follow a classroom of real students as they work on inaugurating a "No Name-Calling" week at their school. Interviews with real kids are interspersed with dramatic vignettes that model name-calling scenarios which many viewers will recognize.
108. Using Your WITS: Strategies to Stop Bullying (Grades 3-6)
Proven effective in elementary school trials for reducing bullying, this research-based program consists of 6 dramatizations that show elementary school students sure-fire ways to handle common bullying situations. Students are taught to use their W.I.T.S. which stands for Walk away, Ignore the person, Talk it out if you can, or Seek help.
