You Help Your Students. Our Programs Will Help You.
As educators, you play a broad and varied role in the lives of your students. You guide their academic achievement... you support their social and emotional growth... you help them learn healthy behaviors and attitudes. It’s a constantly shifting set of priorities and goals.
Connect with Kids helps you meet those goals with award-winning, video-based programming. View the Education Overview. The peer-to-peer format features real kids sharing their true stories about today’s adolescent issues, with teaching resources that facilitate powerful classroom discussion, student self-reflection, and cross-curriculum integrated learning.
The Connect with Kids initiative works at the classroom level, as well as in individual counseling sessions, small group sessions, school-wide assemblies, and entire school districts. Our programs are used in hundreds of schools and school districts across the country, including Broward County and Miami Dade in South Florida; Los Angeles Unified School District; Houston Independent School District; Pittsburgh Public Schools; Charlotte, North Carolina; New York Public Schools, and more.
Our top-selling educational offerings are:
- The Character Collection
- The Health Collection
- The Social and Emotional Collection
- Adventures: Animated Lessons for Character Development
- Professional Versions of Individual DVDs
All Collections include classroom videos, correlated lesson plans, parent outreach, professional development and training, and a one-year subscription to the Connect with Kids 24/7 multimedia online resource, WebSource.
Why Educators Choose Connect with Kids
- Connect with Kids supports Federal initiatives including No Child Left Behind, Safe and Drug Free Schools, Title I, Title IV and Title V.
- Connect with Kids is a selected evidence-based program in the U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse.
- Research shows Connect with Kids improves student behavior, improves school climate and interaction with teachers, and increases communication among parents and their children.
- Connect with Kids provides parent outreach through workshop and PTA programming, as well as Emmy® award-winning television programming that correlates to the classroom programs. Students learn in the classroom... parents and families watch and learn at home, creating community-wide learning about today’s most important youth issues.
