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Inspire! – Volume One: Team Building and Group Development
CD-ROM Format
Using interactive multimedia, Inspire! shows you how to set up, lead, and process each activity. In addition to watching and hearing video, you can read and print instructions for any activity.

The activities on this CD-ROM address leadership, critical thinking, collaboration, individual self-esteem, competition, group dynamics, and team confidence. Challenge your students with fun and engaging activities that require group members to communicate effectively and work together for success.

Price:
Special CASC Price: $49.95
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Bright Ideas for Student Leaders
Teacher’s Guide: 8.5″ x 11″ 3-ring binder
The 39-page Student Workbook includes information and worksheets on basic areas that elementary students should master. Topics include Roles of Officers, Planned Report to Principal, Council Goal Setting, Calendar Building, Personal Growth Units, Daily Planning Sheets, School Exchanges, Project Ideas, Effective Meetings, Individual Goals, Evaluation, Public Relations, Planning a Workshop, and Working Together.

Price:
Student Workbook: $8.00
Teacher’s Guide: $35.00
Student Workbooks – Packet of 20: $150.00
Classroom Set – 20 Student Workbooks and 1 Teacher’s Guide: $165.00

Meeting Skills for 21st Century Leaders
Teacher’s Guide: 31 Pages, 8.5″ x 11″ soft cover
This 28-page booklet helps students understand what makes a meeting work well and gives key actions to use in planning and running meetings. The Student Guide covers Characteristics of Good Meetings, Planning Steps, Agenda Building, Ground Rules, Problem Solving, The Role of the Meeting Leader, The Role of the Recorder, Group Memory as a Tool, and more.

Price:
Student Handbook: $7.00
Teacher’s Guide: $8.00
Student Handbooks – Packet of 20: $112.00
Classroom Set – 20 Student Handbooks and 1 Teacher’s Guide: $118.00

Spirit Works…Turn It On!
80 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″ soft cover
America’s most popular school spirit booklet. Over 20,000 copies are being used. Seven hundred ideas, 80 pages. Topics include Noontime Activities, Class Competition, Games, Pep Rally Ideas, Holiday Events, Staff Appreciation Suggestions, and Fund Raising Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of. Compiled by Bob Burton, who has served as activities director at Fallbrook High School, CA, for 25 years.

Price:
$10.00

Secrets of Fundraising: Ten Secrets to Success
8.5″ x 11″ soft cover
Ten secrets for successful fundraising are outlined in this 51-page booklet. Think through your purpose, how much you need to raise, creative approaches, and strategies for enlisting the help of others, organizational techniques, the art of selling your ideas, procedures for collecting donations and publicity ideas are covered.

Price:
$13.00

Reasoner’s Building Self-Esteem
105 pages, 8.5″ x 11″ 3-hole punched soft cover
The Teacher’s Manual contains an overview of self-esteem and its five components: Security, Identity, Belonging, Purpose, and Competence, and includes a chapter on the importance of self-esteem in teachers. The binder contains 150 reproducible worksheets which are creative classroom-tested activities that teach students any one of the five components of self-esteem. Sixteen reproducible reward sheets provide positive reinforcement for student’s accomplishments. Awards include recognizing students for their academic, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

Price:
$120.00

Student Board Member Handbook
By Ellis Bowman, Barbara Grater, Barbara Wilets, Jan Young
61 pages, 8.5″ x 11″ spiral bound soft cover
This 60-page booklet is designed to prepare student members of local boards of education to handle their responsibilities effectively. Chapter titles include The Role of the Student Member: What Are You Getting Into?, What Do Get from Serving?, Getting the Board Position, Boardsmanship, Crisis Situations, and Expanding the Student Role. The Appendix includes statutory provisions concerning the position of student board members in California, sample school district policies concerning the position, a glossary of terms and resources.

Price:
$15.00

Student Board Member Symposium Handbook
245 pages, spiral bound soft cover
The Student Board Member Symposium Handbook is an extremely useful tool for any Student Board Member! Job Specific skills such as budgeting, student activism in curriculum and surveying are discussed, as well as Parliamentary Procedure, Student Rights, and Lobbying/ Legislation. Personal Developmment tools and an extensive list of resources are also included.

Price:
$25.00

The Elementary Student Council Advisor Survival Handbook
125 pages, 8.5″ x 11″ soft cover
This guide provides practical information to adult advisors who work with student councils. In addition to specific information about the role of the advisor, this 125 page handbook outlines the “how-to’s” of advising an elementary student council and develping a meaningful leadership program. Topics include Student Council Structures and Job Descriptions, Goal Setting and Calendar Planning, Constitutions and By-Laws, Leadership Training and Development, and more. This handbook includes sample worksheets and forms and is packaged in a three-ring binder.

Price:
$40.00

Leadership for Tomorrow’s World: Leadership Class Lessons Plans for Elementary Schools
8.5″ x 11″ 3 hole punched binder
This book consists of twenty 60 minute lesson plans designed to develop leadership skills in grades four through six. Topics include: Meeting Skills, Self Esteem, Communication, Goal Setting, Action Planning, Conflict Resolution, and Leadership Qualities. Supporting materials for lessons are included in the appendix. The guide is packaged in a three-ring binder to allow for inclusion of additional material in the future.

Price:
$18.00

Best of Self-Esteem: Classroom Activities by Leading Educators
46 pages, 8.5″ x 11″ soft cover
This practical guide begins with a discussion about self-esteem and effective teaching. Specific exercises for use in the classroom are included in this 48 page book to which experts from through out the country contributed, including Jack Canfield, Virginia Sator, and Harry Wong. Material can be used on both the elementary and secondary levels.

Price:
$10.00

Clues for Successful Student Activities
Teacher Guide: 68 pages, 8.5″ x 11″, 2.5 ” 3 hole punched binder
This book provides vital information for planning and organizing student projects in secondary schools. The 104 page Student workbook is cleverly illustarted and provides space for writing, clarifying goals, defining job descriptions, and assessing leadership effectiveness. the 187 page Teacher workbook includes the complete Student workbook as well as supplementary materials and specific advisor information.

Price:
Student Workbook: $15.00
Teacher’s Guide: $35.00
Student Workbooks – Packet of 20: $240.00
Classroom Set – 20 Student Workbooks and 1 Teacher’s Guide: $268.00