Videos for Sale!

Have you wanted to share with your team or fellow parents what INREAL and the Storybook Journey are about?  Or what they look like in the hands of clinicians and teachers?  The Price Initiatives is pleased to announce the release of the Earning the Right: The Story of INREAL; The Storybook Journey: Into The Wind (part 1); and The Storybook Journey: The Stories We Tell(part 2). We plan a late 2004 release of INREAL, part 2. 

The INREAL Film Series

Tikki Heublein, Rita Weiss, David and Frances Hawkins, and Cynthia Gray-Mash at a videotaping for what later became "Earning the Right: The Story of INREAL".

The Child Learning Center faculty and Landlocked Films are pleased to announce the recent release of Earning the Right: The Story of INREAL (Inter-Reactive Learning), a 24-minute video introducing the innovative communication model created by Dr. Rita Weiss and colleagues in the 1970s to facilitate child-centered, play-based, and compassionate communication between children and adults.  Earning the Right: The Story of INREAL traces the origins of this method for teaching young children that sparked a revolution in early childhood education and remains influential today.  The video takes you from the early inspiration of INREAL's founders to the excitement of the CLC, where INREAL is a cornerstone of an integrated approach to teaching young children and training future educators and SLPs.  The video looks at key concepts of the INREAL model, such as wait time, self-reflection, videotape analysis, and "earning the right" to be with a child.  The video sells for individual use for $20 plus $4 for shipping and handling. If you are in Colorado, please add $1.53 in sales tax. The price for institutional use (which includes public performance rights) is $80 plus $4 for shipping and handling. If you are in Colorado, please add $6.12 in sales tax.  To order a VHS copy of the video at this discounted price or for more information, please contact Landlocked Films at 303-447-2821 or orders@landlockedfilms.com.

THE STORYBOOK JOURNEY

This video, first in a two-part series, explores an approach to teaching preschool children through in-depth use of a single story over an extended period of time, and profiles its creator, educator and author Sue McCord.  By "living through" a particular story over time, children can overcome developmental and emotional challenges and learn in an organic, creative way.  The audience for this video is SLPs, other therapists, early childhood educators, and coordinators of school programs in the United States and in other countries.  Sue will use the videos to train teachers and convince educators that something more is needed besides drilling students to pass standardized tests in order to nurture the imaginations of young children.

The Storybook Journey: Into the Wind, part one of the series, features a Colorado preschool and a book titled Gilberto and the Wind, in which a young boy discovers the wind in all of its many moods and its transitory moments.  The adult teacher "leads us home," as does the child, in his brief passage through childhood, lead the teacher "home."  The marks they leave on each other are indelible, though hidden in the wind.  To purchase a copy of this 24-minute video or for more information, please contact Landlocked Films at 303-447-2821 or orders@landlockedfilms.com. The price for individual use is $20 plus $4 for shipping and handling. If you are in Colorado, please add $1.53 in sales tax. The price for institutional use is $80 plus $4 for shipping and handling. If you are in Colorado, please add $6.12 for sales tax.

Part two of the Storybook Journey video series, The Storybook Journey: The Stories We Live, accompanies two Colorado preschools as they take the Journey in new directions. In this 36-minute film, viewers get practical, hands-on views on: how the Storybook Journey method can be integrated into a standards-driven curriculum; how literacy, math and other “core” subjects can be approached in a joyful way; how children with special needs can be better integrated into the social fabric of a classroom; and even how stories can act as vehicles for an exploration of life’s deepest mysteries. The price for individual use is $20 plus $4 for shipping and handling. If you are in Colorado, please add $1.53 in sales tax. The price for institutional use is $80 plus $4 for shipping and handling. If you are in Colorado, please add $6.12 for sales tax. To purchase a copy of this 24-minute video or for more information, please contact Landlocked Films at 303-447-2821 or orders@landlockedfilms.com.

You may also be interested in Language and Culture: Respecting Family Choices, a video produced by Project ACT at SLHS, about how bilingual and bicultural families make choices about the languages their children speak at home and at school.  How can educators and providers support and inform this decision-making process?  Should these choices be different for a child with an identified special need?  What are the long-term consequences of preserving the languages of one's heritage or of losing them?  This video addresses these issues through interviews with a variety of people, from recent immigrants to the great-grandchildren of Native Americans.  For more information, please contact Dr. Barbara Roscoe at Barbara.Roscoe@colorado.edu.

IN THE PIPELINE:

Due out in late 2004: INREAL II, the nuts and bolts information you need to share the model with your colleagues.

Also due for release in late 2004, is the one-hour documentary Song of Our Children, undertaken in collaboration with the Price Initiatives as an exploration of the experiences of families with children with developmental delays and disabilities and the pressing issue of educational and social inclusion - what it is, how it is or isn't practiced, and how families are working toward a better future.  Compelling footage from the National Archives will show how children with disabilities were treated in institutional settings in the 1960s and 1970s.  The film looks at where we have been as a society coping with disability in children, where we are now, and what a better future might look like. The CLC and other local schools and families will be featured in this for-broadcast film. For more information, contact director/producer Beret E. Strong at 303-440-5499 or beret@landlockedfilms.com.