Product Description

A Year-long Kindness Curriculum for 30 minutes per Month

Kindness and self-knowledge are not explicitly written into most curriculum standards yet they are the most important qualities a child can learn in school for success in a civilized society. More than a collection of songs and lessons, Force Field for Good is an ongoing, year long, practical approach to creating a kindly classroom community of students who share a passion for self-refl ection and aspire to well being for every member of their class.

The easy to use, teacher-created lessons foster higher level thinking skills which connect to state standards and teach students how to mine deep meaning from life and literature.

Much more than an anti-bullying program,

Force Field for Good will have your students joyously singing aloud as you watch them grow into empathetic, courageous and compassionate kids who make their classroom, their school, and their community a zone of love and learning!

Review

Force Field for Good is an invitation to think, reflect, sing along, read and take action for the good in the world. Through a collection of 10 original songsand literacy lessons Barry Lane and Colleen Mestdagh engage audiences young and old with addictive tunes, thought provoking lyrics, and engaging activitiesto go with them. Each song is a springboard into books and conversation and action. Each pairing of music and literature is the nudge we need to continue striving to become our truest, best self.

Lester Laminak, co-author of Bullying Hurts --Publisher review

About the Author

Barry Lane is an author, singer, and teacher. His many books on writing have helped teachers create classrooms of lifelong writers and his songs

charm and delight students with humor and insight. Currently, he toursthe country sharing his Force Field for Good assembly to students K-8 and speaking to teachers of all grade levels on how to improve writing

instruction.

Colleen Mestdagh believes passionately that children learn best in safe, caring communities. She has taught second graders for the past seven yearsin Rochester, MI. An active board member of the Michigan

Reading Association, and the Oakland County Reading Council,Colleen also teaches graduate literacy courses at Madonna University and presents literacy workshops for teachers nationwide.