RESOURCES

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PLAY IS THE WAY® COMPLETE PROGRAM VOLUME 1 & 2 -  $264.00 (Plus HST)

All you need to successfully use PLAY IS THE WAY® in your classroom or school. 
The PLAY IS THE WAY® complete program Volume 1&2 is the culmination of over 20 years experience of teaching social and emotional learning.  Condensed into 500 pages, this is a concise, student focused, and teacher friendly resource.

Social and emotional development at your fingertips in these two manuals that give you all the information you’ll need to improve the living and learning of children, using PLAY IS THE WAY®.

PLAY IS THE WAY® MANUAL VOLUME 3: PART A - 3R's METHOD - $66 ​(Plus HST)

REFLECTION - REPAIR - RESTITUTION
The 3Rs Method is a behaviour education methodology that builds self-management skills for children having difficulty with their behaviour.  It strengthens teacher/student relationships, develops empathy and addresses bystander behaviour. 
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The 3Rs Method uses Guide Sheets that, with the guidance of a teacher, explicitly teach SEL skills, and gives students the opportunity to make the restitution that facilitates the repair of relationships. ​

PLAY IS THE WAY® MANUAL VOLUME 3: PART B - GPS - $66 (Plus HST)

GROWING PERSONALLY & SOCIALLY
GPS offers direction in a time of need.  It is a carefully constructed, powerful form of “circle time” that addresses issues of classroom and schoolyard behaviour in a safe and meaningful way while improving the personal and social capabilities of students and the facilitator.

A GPS Conference does not exclude children from the circle. The circle is their community and their membership of that community is unbreakable. The message here is that your community will be here for you when you need them the most. You belong, and if your behaviour makes the relationship with your community difficult they will, to a person, help and support you to make things better.
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A GPS Conference does not vote children out of the circle and force them to satisfy the needs of the class before they are allowed back in. We want children to know their community is there for them even in the worst of times, in the belief that an unshakeable and proven trust in that knowledge, is for so many children, the first step towards considerate, appropriate, responsible and respectful behaviour. ​

 PLAY IS THE WAY® Play More Manual Volume 4​ - $145 (Plus HST)

This manual will guide you through the complexities of social and emotional learning (SEL) using specifically designed games and activities. The extensive lists of questions will help educators strengthen their relationships with students.
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Through play, conversation, discussion and guidance, students learn to create safer classrooms and school communities.
The games and activities are targeted for ages 7 - 12+. However, they can be easily adapted by creative educators to be effective above and below these ages.

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Stretching The Imagination - $264

Stretching The Imagination activities can be enjoyed in anything from one-on-one sessions to full classrooms. 
The key purpose of this resource is to improve well-being by the stretching and exercising of imagination and creativity. Sadly, the freeing of imagination and creativity are seldom mentioned as essential ingredients in the improvement of well-being. More seldom still is the understanding that there is a direct link between imagination and empathy…the foundation of humanity.
The engaging simplicity of the activities belies their depth and benefit. In the hands of educators, comfortable in talking with kids and interested in what lies beneath the surface of answers, suggestions, opinions, thoughts and ideas, these activities will serve to hone the critical thinking skills of students and excite their curiosity to learn about others and themselves. In short, they bolster well-being.

INFORMATION BOOKLET - FREE DOWNLOAD

Read our Information Booklet to gain a deeper understanding prior to implementing Play Is The Way®.

CHILDREN AREN'T MADE OF CHINA - $34.00 (Plus HST)

(Written for parents & teachers)

Easy to read, this book is not an academic thesis, but a practical guide for concerned parents and teachers with little time and much to do.

CRITICAL MASS - $20.00 (Plus HST)

An intervention to help teachers struggling with a difficult classroom.

Think of your classroom. If you can label one third of the students as having very difficult to extremely difficult behaviours then this strategy will help.

“The more difficult or aberrant a child’s behaviour the greater their plea for help.”
Wilson McCaskill

Critical Mass is a long term strategy requiring commitment and planning by the classroom teacher.  Although it is not a quick fix it can, if the teacher perseveres, create significant improvements within a matter of weeks.

82 x A5 pages spiral bound

EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS

BY WISDOM NOT BY FORCE - $34.00 (Plus HST)

Abook of quotes by PLAY IS THE WAY Founder Wilson McCaskill, to help guide children, teachers and parents.

BY WISDOM NOT BY FORCE, is a stimulating journey into the ideas, issues and insights that are of consequence to the teachers, parents and children of today.

Wilson McCaskill’s philosophy and experience is captured in 163 of his own succinct, relevant and effective maxims.

Maxims can be of great help to children. They say what needs to be said and nothing more. Used in classrooms and displayed on school walls they serve to guide behaviour and stimulate positive attitudes.
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Once learnt in childhood they become mental notes for life. Maxims can be shared, exchanged, added to and created. They penetrate the dark of unease and indecisiveness and can be a welcome signpost when confusion abounds and clarity is in marked absence.

173 x A4 Pages (landscape) Spiral Bound
EXPECTED DELIVERY 7-14 DAYS

BULLY STRATEGY BOOKLET  - $20.00 (Plus HST)

A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO BUILDING EMPATHY AND REDUCING BULLYING

“Someone who bullies has someone scared inside.”

The power of this poster for children lies in its disempowerment of those who bully.

It is our firm belief that the most effective means to address the problem of bullying in school communities is to work determinedly to nurture empathy.

Let’s Talk – Pathway To Empathy Lanyards - $25 (Plus HST)

Let’s Talk – Pathway To Empathy Lanyards are a readily available tool to trigger meaningful conversations, question and guide behaviour, prompt deeper thinking and inspire elevated, socially responsible conduct.
The 5 Life Raft concepts, Play Is The Way Self-Mastery Checklist as well as the 6 Pathway To Empathy virtues are captured on 7 full colour; credit card sized plastic cards (printed on both sides) that hang from a durable lanyard.  Small, attractive and easy to read, the set of 7 cards can be easily detached to facilitate ease of use and student engagement.
The lanyards are designed to keep the Play Is The Way philosophy of behaviour education front and centre in the daily life and learning of a school.  They also make it easier for teachers to learn, use and sustain the behaviour education that develops empathetic, independent, self-motivated, self-managing lifelong learners.
A school’s culture needs to be purposefully constructed and maintained.  It requires visible symbols and signs of the principles that inform and strengthen that culture.  This set of 7 cards is a public proclamation that behaviour education is meaningful, matters and is an ever-present part of school life. The cards prompt teachers to connect respectfully with children and enriches those connections through insightful conversations.
The Let’s Talk – Pathway To Empathy Lanyards are an unflinching statement of belief in the concepts and virtues that define your school’s culture.  They will be easily identified by parents and students and remind both that teachers not only expect students to adhere to the demands of the school’s culture but live by those standards themselves.
“If you’re not modeling what you are teaching, you’re not teaching what you think.”

Aboriginal Key Concept posters 11x17 - $50

Aboriginal Key Concept posters 8.5x11 - $30

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6 Key Concept Posters 11x17- $25

Life Raft Family Poster 11x17- $6
5 Life Raft Key Concept Posters plus Self Mastery Checklist