Release date: 1998-08-09
Run time: 40 min.
Creator: Thomas Armstrong
List Price: $79.00
Price: $79.00
Review Multiple Intelligences: Discovering the Giftedness in All / National Professional Resources, Inc.:Dr. Thomas Armstrong, one of the most nationally acclaimed lecturers in the area of Multiple Intelligences, presents an array of teaching strategies to discover the giftedness in all children. The theory of Multiple Intelligences incorporates the broad specturm of human abilities into an eight-fold system that can make any student a winner! Armstrong provides the viewer with an array of practical strategies that can be used by classroom teachers in the schools. Numerous school scenes demonstrate creative teaching strategies that can be implemented. Packed with valuable resources and designed for staff development, this video is meant for all educators who wish to enhance the learning process and discover the giftedness in all children!.
List Price: $74.20
Price: $70.49
Review Mosaic 1 / Mcgraw-Hill College:
Release date: 2000-03-31
Run time: 312 min.
List Price: $64.95
Price: $61.70
Review Adventures of Carrot Top Volumes 1-4 / Quality Time Education Inc.:
Actors & Directors
- Thurl Ravenscroft
- Robert C. Ramirez
- Deanna Oliver
- Brian Doyle-Murray
- Eric Lloyd
- Timothy Stack
Review The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue:
Actors & Directors
- Brian Austin Green
- CCH Pounder
- Leah Remini
- Mark Hamill
- Kath Soucie
Review Biker Mice from Mars:
Actors & Directors
- Alec Baldwin
- George Carlin
- Michael Brandon
Review Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends:
Release date: 1995-04-16
Price: $8.99
Review Padre Nuestro Que Estas En LA Tierra / Laguna Films:
Actors & Directors
- John Cassisi
- Florrie Dugger
- Scott Baio
- Jodie Foster
- Martin Lev
- Alan Parker
Review Bugsy Malone:Writer-director Alan Parker's feature debut Bugsy Malone is a pastiche of American movies, a musical gangster comedy set in 1929, featuring prohibition, showgirls, and gang warfare, with references to everything from Some Like It Hot to The Godfather. Uniquely, though, all the parts are played by children, including an excellent if underused Jodie Foster as platinum-blonde singer Tallulah, Scott Baio in the title role and a nine-year-old Dexter Fletcher wielding a baseball bat. Cream-firing "spluge guns" sidestep any real violence and the movie climaxes cheerfully with the biggest custard pie fight this side of Casino Royale (1967). Unfortunately for a musical, Paul Williams's score-part honky-tonk jazz homage, part 1970s Elton John-style pop-lets the side down with a lack of memorable tunes. Nevertheless, Parker's direction is spot on and the look of the film is superb, a fantasy movie-movie existing in the same parallel reality as The Cotton Club and Chicago. A rare British love letter to classic American cinema, Bugsy Malone remains a true original; in Parker's words "the work of a madman" and one of the strangest yet most stylish children's films ever made. -Gary S. Dalkin.
Actors & Directors
- Susanne Tabata
- Jorgito Vargas Jr. - Host
Run time: 44 min.
List Price: $69.95
Price: $62.49
Review Transitions to High School:Transitions to High School (Video with Discussion Guide) The Video features five high school students with specific learning disabilities and/or ADHD, who, in an unscripted interview format, speak about their school and transition experiences. Juxtaposed with their comments two years earlier, the students outline the steps to a successful transition from elementary/middle school to high school. Self-advocacy, transition planning, learning strategies, and the differences between elementary/middle school and high school are key topics. The Discussion Guide is designed to help teachers, facilitators, and parents present the video to students. It includes key discussion topics and exercises. "Its message serves as a blueprint for success well beyond the high-school years. " Dr. Robert Brooks, Harvard Medical School, and author of The Self-Esteem Teacher.
Actors & Directors
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Kathy Najimy
- Kenny Ortega
- Bette Midler
- Omri Katz
- Thora Birch
Review Hocus Pocus:This big, fat theatrical bomb has a lot going for it. There's the three leads, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, playing three resurrected witches who wreak havoc on Salem, Massachusetts, 300 hundred years after they were hung. There's music, special effects, and magic. There's a surprisingly horror-filled plot. Whoops, hold up on that last one. It's probably the extremes that this film goes to (displaying a Disney label), such as the witches sucking the life out of a little girl in the first five minutes, that put the brakes on any success for Hocus Pocus. Older children, however, in the 8 and up range should get a kick out of all the weird goings-on. It's a good measure of Halloween thrills and chills. -Keith Simanton.
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Vittorio de Sica
Review THE WONDERS OF ALADDIN / Embassy International / New Line Home Video / Charter Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Janina Faye
- Stephen Turner
- Angela Down
- Stephanie Bidmead
- Jo Rowbottom
Review Little Women:
Actors & Directors
- Timothy Bottoms
- Delbert Mann
- Eva Marie Saint
Review Love Leads The Way / Walt Disney Home Video:When an insurance salesman is blinded in a boxing accident, his world is turned upside down as he has trouble functioning in his sightless world. All seem hopeless until he learns of an innovative European project that trains dogs as guides for the blind. He explores the idea and decides to train for a dog. He eventually gets a guide dog, but soon learns that he is barred from taking his needed companion into transit vehicles and public buildings and businesses. With a newfound friend, he must fight to make the country recognize that those rules are unfair to him and his guide.
Actors & Directors
- Renae Jacobs
- Cam Clarke
- Barry Gordon
- Rob Paulsen
- Jim Cummings
Creator: Stan Sakai
Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Series:
Release date: 1998-11-17
Run time: 59 min.
List Price: $74.00
Price: $74.00
Review Successful Classrooms: Effective Teaching Strategies for Raising Achievement in Reading and Writing:This dynamic video demonstrates powerful instructional strategies in K-5 classrooms for teaching: the core content curriculum, guided reading, phonics and word study, read aloud, modeled writing, guided writing, and hands-on literacy activities for independent work. These engaging and creative strategies and techniques will provide teachers with the know-how for implementing the components of an effective literacy program. Also demonstrated at different grade levels are the supports and instructional scaffolds to accelerate below-grade level readers & writers.
Actors & Directors
- Jennifer Darling
- James Avery
- Barry Gordon
- Peter Renaday
- Cam Clarke
Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Series:
Actors & Directors
- Olivia Hack
- Toran Caudell
- Cullen Blaine
- Phillip Van Dyke
- Craig Bartlett
- Francesca Smith
- Spencer Klein
Creator: Jonathan Rosenthal
Review Hey Arnold!:
Run time: 18 min.
Creator: Cambridge Educational Productions
Price: $79.95
Review Body Image for Boys / Films for the Humanities:As the idealized male physique continues to be hyped in movies, on TV, in magazines, and on billboards, a rapidly growing number of men are becoming obsessed with appearance. Each year alone, they spend billions on gym memberships and home exercise equipmentand women are no longer alone in battling anorexia and body dysmorphic disorder. This topical program explores some of the issues facing young men today as they struggle to define themselves amidst the flood of media-generated images of male physical perfection. Experts including Divya Kakaiya, the visionary founder and clinical director of the Healthy Within treatment center; Leigh Cohn, co-author of the seminal Making Weight: Mens Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape, and Appearance; and UCLA Healthcare sports medicine physician Gary Green as well as a number of young patients grapple with problems such as steroid abuse, eating disorders, exercise addiction, and phony food supplements. A viewable/printable instructors guide is available online. A Cambridge Educational Production.
Actors & Directors
- Henry Beckman
- Tim Deacon
- Lynn Redgrave
- Dom DeLuise
- Gerard Plunkett
- Jason Priestley
Review Lion of Oz:In this animated prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the Cowardly Lion (Jason Priestley) is a circus animal in Nebraska taken on an after-hours balloon ride by the kindly Oscar (Dom DeLuise). The balloonist puts the souvenir "badge of courage" around the lion's neck before the excursion goes awry in a storm and the pair are separated. They both set down, of course, in the Land of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the East (Lynn Redgrave) finds the lion in short order, confiscates his badge, and forces him on a quest to find the Flower of Oz, a mystical tool that would give her control of the realm. He is joined on his journey by a girl named Wimsik (Jane Horrocks of Little Voices), her doll and soldier toys (Kathy Griffin, Tim Curry), and a springy oddity named Silly (Bobcat Goldthwait). Based on a book written by Roger S. Baum, great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, who authored the classic Oz books, this 71-minute film features professional performances, serviceable songs, and pleasant animation. Devoted fans of the classic film and books may resent this obvious capitalization, but kids will love the fun voices, playful new characters, and easy-to-digest plot-not to mention the chance meeting at the film's end with a certain party traipsing down a yellow brick road. (Ages 3 and older) -Kimberly Heinrichs.
Creator: Jeff Corwin
Price: $39.95
Review The Jeff Corwin Experience: The Galapagos: Land of Evolutionary Change / Discovery Communications:
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