Digital Safety, Responsibility & Awareness Series
The innovation and evolution of digital technologies has created a new way of teaching, learning, socializing, and communicating. The adoption of new digital technology is so rapid that a uniform and proactive concept of responsible use is often overlooked. With these constant changes, the irresponsible, and often dangerous and malicious use of these digital devices can lead to negative, life-altering consequences. The Institute for Responsible Online and Cell Phone Communication's (IROC) founder Richard Guerry's* approach is solution oriented and preventive. In the digital world your actions are "public and permanent."
There are separate age-appropriate programs and guides for grades 3-5, 6-8 and 9-college. This Program also aims to inform students in the importance of being aware of their digital behaviors. In addition, it provides tools, tips, and comprehensive curriculum to increase everyone's digital awareness and consciousness.
Estimated Run Time: 55 Minutes
Grade Level: 3+
Get Along Monsters
In this program, the Get-Along Monsters assist young children learn strategies that will help them to solve problems in safe and appropriate ways. Each segment combines humorous, animated segments and age-appropriate, live-action scenarios to demonstrate easy-to-understand skills. Each concept and skill is reviewed and reinforced with a memorable music video.
Estimate Run Time: 126 Minutes
Grade Level: K-4
Guidance Elementary Series
This series helps educators broach extremely sensitive topics in a thoughtful, yet comprehensive way. Guidance Systems programs present real-life vignettes that students can identify with to develop an understanding of the consequences, emotions and age-appropriate solutions related to each topic.
Estimated Run Time: 72 Minutes
Grade Level: 2-6
Guidance Middle-High School Series
This series helps educators broach extremely sensitive topics in a thoughtful, yet comprehensive way. Guidance Systems programs present real-life vignettes that students can identify with to develop an understanding of the consequences, emotions and age-appropriate solutions related to each topic.
Estimated Run Time: 131 Minutes
Grade Level: 6-12
Let's Talk About Series
This series, designed for elementary-aged children, presents information on legal and illegal drugs in an easy to understand way. It delves into the impact of the use and abuse of these substances on the human body, individuals, and society.
Estimated Run Time: 35 Minutes
Grade Level: 3-6
Marvel & Friends Series
Marvel and Friends is a series geared specifically for children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The mix of animation and real life scenarios coupled with music videos makes for an educational and entertaining video, that will sustain the attention of most young children with ASD or other social skills deficits, or those typically functioning preschoolers struggling to learn these important life skills.
Estimated Run Time: 46 Minutes
Grade Level: K-4
My Blog Series
Today’s high-tech journal is called a weblog or “blog”. Someone who writes a blog is a “blogger”. My Blog is a that features video bloggers discussing their feelings, relationships and concerns about school, friends, family and more. Each video features peer bloggers who share their stories, via flashback, about various topics and issues that directly affect or concern them.
Estimated Run Time: 226 Minutes
Grade Level: 4-8
Play It Out Series
lay it Out series, by Mazzarella Media, is exploring the rapidly changing issues confronting teenagers through improvisational skits that allow teens to speak directly to teens. By using improvisational skills to Play it Out, teenagers pick up on subtle language and context cues that can only come from students speaking to other students.
The life of the teenager is changing rapidly. Technology, media, access to information and social pressures have created a dynamics that did not exist even 10 years ago. Play it Out challenges the viewers to think critically about social dynamics and encourages healthy behavior by watching others work out problems in real life situations. Play it Out offers solid solutions and opens the door to rich communication using the language of today's teen and stars today's young adults.
Estimated Run Time: 210 Minutes
Grade Level: 7+
Talk It Out Eating Disorder Series
This program explains what an eating disorder is and what the main eating disorders are called? The program will provide an overview of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and compulsive overeating. In addition students will come to understand what an eating disorder looks like. Symptoms may include thinking about food and dieting all the time, knowing about the amount of energy in every type of food, eating very little, vomiting after meals, a strenuous exercise routine, constantly in pursuit of thinness and more.
Estimated Run Time: 51 Minutes
Grade Level: 7+
Teens 101 Series
Teens 101 is a multi-media initiative towards reaching, guiding, empowering, and inspiring youth through the issues that can affect their mental health and well being. The series communicates from a youth's perspective topics such as: depression and anxiety, addiction, self harm, mental illness, bullying, body image, self worth, family dysfunction, racism, sexuality and LGBTQ.
Estimated Run Time: 250 Minutes
Grade Level: 7-12
Teens, Substance Abuse & Addiction Series
Through vintage footage, animation, graphics, and scientific demonstrations, this series explores the various types of substance abuse and addiction and their impact on individuals, families, and society as a whole.