Special Programs for Better Schools
The School To Work Program
Our School to Work program consists of Employee Improvement Packets for use with Cooperative Education students or students who will shortly enter the world of work.
Students whose work performances are not up to par need extra help so they can keep their jobs and successfully complete the cooperative education experience. Good student-employees make it easy for schools to ask employers to take future students and help enhance your school's reputation in the community. Co-operative Education teachers must do all they can to insure the student-employee performs well, but some employees are late to work, have negative attitudes and have problems with both their supervisors and other employees. Now schools can tackle these and other employee problems. Negative situations can be turned into positive ones. Everyone is a winner - the school, the student and the employer!
The program consists of four sets of material in either notebook form for photocopying or on computer disk for your word processor. Each set contains at least eleven packets to help students improve their work behaviors and attitudes. The packets can be used individually with a student to help overcome a particular problem, or with a group of students collectively to help prevent problems.
Cooperative Education Program Brochure and Order Form in PDF
The Middle and High School Special Education Discipline Program
Special Education teachers can now have their own discipline tools. We have taken our successful discipline program concept and designed three notebooks for use in the Special Ed room. Each notebook consists of 12 packets for photocopying. As with our other discipline materials, the Special Education packets also are available on computer disk so you can modify and personalize the material before presenting it to your students.
Individual Behavior Learning Packets (IBLPs) provide misbehaving students with positive learning activities to overcome behavior or attitude problems. IBLPs offer logical consequences for student misbehavior--students work with materials that actually match the school rule they violated. IBLPs help students to settle down and think about what went wrong.
Packets address such misbehavior as: truancy, tardiness, wasting time, talking, vandalism, inattentiveness, fighting, being unprepared for class, dishonesty, disrespect, smoking, gang activities, drug and alcohol problems and much more! Packets are grouped by minor school infractions, major school infractions, and student attitude problems.
Secondary School Special Education Program Brochure and Order Form in PDF
The Elementary School Special Education Discipline Program
Special Education teachers can now have their own discipline tools. We have taken our successful discipline program concept and designed three notebooks for use in the Special Ed room. Each notebook consists of 20 packets for photocopying. As with our other discipline materials, the Special Education packets also are available on computer disk so you can modify and personalize the material before presenting it to your students.
Individual Behavior Learning Packets (IBLPs) provide misbehaving students with positive learning activities to overcome behavior or attitude problems. IBLPs offer logical consequences for student misbehavior--students work with materials that actually match the school rule they violated. IBLPs help students to settle down and think about what went wrong.
Packets address such misbehavior as: late to class, being prepared, pushing, getting along with others, listening, sharing and much more! Packets are grouped by reading level into Red (reading level 2-3), White (reading level 3-4), and Blue (reading level 4-5) Packets.
Elementary School Special Education Program Brochure and Order Form in PDF
The Elementary Bully Program
The Elementary Bully Program consists of two sets of Learning Packets for the bully. One set, "Version A," is designed for use with students in grades two through four. The second set, "Version B," is designed for use with students in grades four through six. Each set consists of twelve different packets that should handle any type of bullying behavior encountered. Each packet includes approximately seven pages of text followed by two sets of ten questions and one crossword puzzle. As with all of our discipline learning packets, the questions are designed to help the student think through his behavior problem and set goals to prevent future problems.
Elementary Bully Program Description and Order Form in PDF
The Elementary PE Substitute Packet Program
The Elementary PE Substitute Packet Program consists of 42 lessons for use with Physical Education classes in grades Kindergarten through Six. Included are 21 Lesson Plans for the new or limited experienced substitute, 11 Lessons for the sub with some PE experience, 5 lessons for the experienced PE sub and 5 additional lessons for use in "Limited Space" areas when your PE classes cannot use the gym or go outside. Also included are a variety of suggestions and forms to help make the substitute experience with PE classes successful and meaningful.
View Sample Packets from the Elementary PE Substitute Packet Book.
Elementary PE Susbstitute Program Description and Order Form in PDF
The Secondary Bully Program
The Secondary Bully Program consists of two sets of Learning Packets for the bully. Packets for eight different bullying behaviors are included in each set. These sixteen different packets should handle any type of bullying behavior encountered. Each packet includes approximately ten pages of text followed by two sets of twenty questions. As with all of our discipline learning packets, the questions are designed to help the student think through his behavior problem and set goals to prevent future problems.
Secondary Bully Program Description and Order Form in PDF
The Healthy Food of the Week Program
Healthy Food of the Week is a nutrition program designed by Blue Ribbon Award Winning PE Educators. It has been tried and tested in a number of diverse schools. It encourages students, parents and the school community to make healthy food choices a part of their daily routine. Each week a specific healthy food item is featured.
HFOW Program Features
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Did you know that students who eat right are better behaved? Read about a case study in our June 2005 newsletter.
Did you know that students who eat right learn better? Read about new research in our March 2004 newsletter.
Find out more about the link between Nutrition and Academic success in our September 2006 newsletter.
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The Classroom Discipline Program For HS Teachers
The Classroom Discipline Program is specifically designed for teacher use. It is a tool that provides teachers with a positive, immediate, and effective response to student misbehavior in the classroom. The program is comprised of fifteen Attitude Lessons and fifteen Behavior Lessons presented in the form of Classroom Discipline Learning Packets.
Now teachers can solve minor behavior problems without the need for office intervention. For the first time, teachers can have a discipline curriculum that will provide misbehaving students with constructive learning activities. Teachers can administer packets to students after school or even assign them as homework and require a parent signature on the completed work. Classroom Discipline Learning Packets help students settle down and re-think their inappropriate actions--all under the guidance of the teacher. Packets foster social and personal responsibility and provide teachers with teaching opportunities to improve unacceptable attitudes and behavior. Each packet focuses on a specific rule violation and helps students change through a series of self-evaluation and goal-setting exercises. The average reading level for the packets is 7.8.
The Classroom Discipline Learning Packet System saves teacher time, helps standardize punishment, and can provide important documentation on student behavior as well as teacher intervention efforts. Packets help students understand the basis for rules and some of the reason those rules are broken. Students exit the discipline process realizing why their behavior was wrong and what they must do to improve. With Classroom Discipline Packets behavior and attitude problems can decrease as time for learning increases.
This program is designed to be administered by all teachers in a school or a segment of staff chosen by the principal.
Classroom Discipline Program Description and Order Form in PDF
The Motivation Program For HS Teachers
Our motivation program consists of proactive lessons for students in grades seven through twelve. The program provides an immediate and effective tool for motivating students. It is available as data files on computer CD for quick printing. By using the material from the CD, you can personalize and modify the material before you print the pages for students to use.
Each packet contains several pages of narrative, three fictional vignettes to engage the reader's imagination, and a set of questions. Some of the text may be expanded, combined or omitted, depending on the topic. The packet structure is generally as follows:
A general introduction to the packet topic, which covers a definition of motivation and explores some of the reasons why people may have motivational problems with regard to the topic. This portion of the Packet appeals to the cognitive side of the student's personality.
Specific exploration of the value of motivation, which offers advice and encouragement to the students with regard to becoming motivated and seeking goals.
A few suggestions about planning, including steps toward setting goals as well as overcoming obstacles that might prevent students from reaching their goals, which include possible steps and attitudes that will enhance the probability of success.
Illustrative fictional stories that depict approaches to the topic under discussion. These stories center around characters with whom the reader might identify: someone who had the same motivational problems as the reader and overcame them. The stories create an emotively evocative context within which readers may experience vicariously the implications of their own actions. This portion of the packet appeals to the emotive side of the student's personality.
A Response section, which includes directions and 10 question about the narrative text and the stories.
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