Products Featuring Michael Pritchard
Michael Pritchard is a comedian, actor, youth activist, former probation officer, and PBS host who is known to audiences across the United States for his ability to help young people gain insight into themselves and the choices they make. Pritchard gained national attention when The Power of Choice, his popular PBS video series for teens on values and choices, first aired. His fans have grown with the release of his two subsequent video series, You Can Choose! and Big Changes, Big Choices.
Mr. Pritchard serves on the boards of directors for Special Olympics, The California Association of Peer Programs, and the Chinese‐American Educational Institute. He also acts as a consultant to the California Consortium on Child Abuse and the Department of Pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital.
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BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES – 12-Part Videos Series with Printable Teaching Guides
Original price was: $839.40.$699.50Current price is: $699.50.-For grades 5-9
-Videos with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Available on DVD or Online Digital Video StreamingIn Big Changes, Big Choices comedian/teen counselor Michael Pritchard helps young adolescents discover that they have the power and the responsibility to make the right choices for themselves. The TV cameras follow him to middle schools in different regions of the U.S. as he thrills his young listeners with unusual humor about growing up, and engages groups of teens in highly productive problem-solving sessions about serious issues that affect their lives.
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LifeSteps – Character Ed / SEL Video Series with Michael Pritchard
Original price was: $899.00.$749.50Current price is: $749.50.-For grades 7-12
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Includes Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Available on DVD or Online Digital Video Streaming
Michael Pritchard helps today’s teens build character, leadership, and emotional intelligence. This 12-part video series combines age-appropriate comedy, exciting dramatizations of real-life moral dilemmas, and insightful, problem-solving sessions to help students develop the necessary social and emotional skills to become responsible, knowledgeable, caring and successful in life. Michael Pritchard uses his uncanny ability to foster lively, spontaneous, teen-centered discussions to give students insight on how to become the best people they can be.
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PEACETALKS – Violence Prevention Video Series with Michael Pritchard
Original price was: $699.50.$539.95Current price is: $539.95.-For grades 6-12
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Includes Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Available on DVD or Online Digital Video Streaming
PeaceTalks with Michael Pritchard teaches kids how to avoid dangerous situations, handle their own emotions, and use conflict resolution skills to diffuse potentially violent confrontations. Filmed in schools across the U.S., this series addresses the real issues of violence that kids face in school, on the streets, and even at home.
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THE POWER OF CHOICE – 12 Volume Character Education / SEL Video Series (High School)
Original price was: $779.40.$649.50Current price is: $649.50.-For grades 9-12
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Available on DVD or Online Digital Video StreamingThe Power of Choice with Michael Pritchard is a 12-part youth guidance video series aimed at empowering teenagers to make good choices in their lives. It teaches young people that they have the power of choice, that they are responsible for the choices they make, and that they owe it to themselves to choose the best.
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YOU CAN CHOOSE! – 10-Part Videos Series with Printable Teaching Guides
Original price was: $599.50.$549.50Current price is: $549.50.-For Grades K-5
-Videos with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Available on DVD or Online Digital Video StreamingThis 10-part DVD series starts children on the path to making positive, healthful life choices. This delightful video series teaches young people valuable lessons that contribute to self-discipline, good decision-making, high self-esteem, a sense of responsibility, and the ability to get along with others.
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You Can Choose!: SAYING NO (to smoking) (dvd)
$59.95From: YOU CAN CHOOSE! Video Series
-For Grades K-5
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!Missie Mouse has to choose whether to say no to a friend or do something she knows is wrong. When Missie’s best friend, Rhonda, tries to pressure her into smoking cigarettes, Missie agonizes over her options before finding that there are ways to say no without ruffling Rhonda’s feathers.
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You Can Choose: APPRECIATING YOURSELF (dvd)
$59.95From: YOU CAN CHOOSE! Video Series
-For Grades K-5
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!Tuggy learns that being himself is a lot better than pretending to be something he’s not. When he becomes troubled by feelings of inadequacy, Tuggy starts making up stories until his friends help him to recognize and appreciate his own true wonderful qualities.
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You Can Choose: ASKING FOR HELP (dvd)
$59.95From: YOU CAN CHOOSE! Video Series
-For Grades K-5
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!Moose learns not to let pride or embarrassment get in the way of asking for help. After ruining a group science project, Moose finds that the only good way to cope with his “secret” reading problem is to get the help he needs to overcome it.
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You Can Choose: BEING RESPONSIBLE (dvd)
$59.95From: YOU CAN CHOOSE! Video Series
-For Grades K-5
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!Being responsible does not come easily to Rhonda Bird, especially when she must choose between having a good time and taking her responsibilities seriously. When a chance to go to Disneyland conflicts with her commitment to work on a class project, Rhonda agonizes over what to do. In the end, she makes the responsible choice, winning the respect of her friends and making her feel very good about herself.
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You Can Choose: COOPERATION (dvd)
$59.95From: YOU CAN CHOOSE! Video Series
-For Grades K-5
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!Moose learns how to work in cooperation with others. When his insistence on always having his own way causes the breakup of his singing quartet, Moose discovers the benefits of cooperating, and learns what it takes to be a cooperative animal.
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You Can Choose: DEALING WITH DISAPPOINTMENT (dvd)
$59.95From: YOU CAN CHOOSE! Video Series
-For Grades K-5
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!Missie Mouse must learn to keep perspective and deal with disappointment in a positive way. When her baseball team falls into last place, Missie almost gives up the sport before realizing that losing is not the same thing as being a loser.
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You Can Choose: DEALING WITH FEELINGS (dvd)
$59.95From: YOU CAN CHOOSE! Video Series
-For Grades K-5
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!Tuggy Turtle discovers the importance of being honest about his emotions. In trying to hide his fears about going on a weekend camp out, Tuggy makes himself miserable and almost ruins his friendship with Moose. Then he learns that it’s best to accept his feelings and express them honestly and positively.
