May 2, 2012
New, research-based resilience education program helps freshman college students manage stress, leading to improved academic performance, better health and higher retention rates.
September 28, 2011
SELmedia announced today that it has introduced two new online workshops for educators, Dealing with Bullying and Peer Relations and Cyberbullying – What Educators Need to Know. Today’s tight budgets make achieving educator professional development requirements more difficult than ever. Delivering training online is budget-friendly, effective, and avoids the logistical challenges of assembling an entire faculty for a one-time event.
September 2, 2011
Social Skills Group Intervention (S.S.GRIN) has been recognized by SAMHSA for the quality of its scientific base and ease of implementation. After a comprehensive review of the quality of the research supporting intervention outcomes and the quality and availability of training and implementation materials, S.S.GRIN 3-5 has been added to SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices.
August 11, 2011
Bullying May Contribute to Lower Test Scores - High schools in Virginia where students reported a high rate of bullying had significantly lower scores on standardized tests that students must pass to graduate, according to research presented at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
LifeStories for Kids wins another award!
SELmedia is proud to announce that a title from the LifeStories for Kids™ Storybook series has won another award. I Am a Frog has been honored with a 2010 MEDIA OF THE YEAR AWARD from Creative Child Magazine.
I Am a Frog is a storybook and DVD from the LifeStories for Kids Storybook Series. This award-winning series helps children understand complex character traits (like integrity, perseverance and courage) through the engaging and ancient art of storytelling. Each book includes a guide for parents, grandparents or caregivers to help children explore and internalize the positive messages in the story.
Creative Child Magazine is a national, bi-monthly publication that provides parents with the latest information on how to nurture their child's creativity. Each year Creative Child Magazine gives awards to what it judges to be the best educational products on the market for children.
Creative Child Magazine's Awards Program is unique in that all products submitted are reviewed by moms, music educators and early education professionals. Products are not reviewed by any one person. Rather, the products are given multiple reviews by several people and finalists are chosen by the very people who would purchase them.
To learn more about I Am a Frog, or any of the other titles in the LifeStories for Kids series, please visit http://www.selmediainc.com/lifestories/series.
Posted on December 15, 2010
