conduct of life

Spunky eleven-year-old Wadjda lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her parents. She desperately wants a bicycle so that she can race her friend Abdullah, even though it is considered improper for girls to ride bikes. Wadjda earns money for her dream bike by selling homemade bracelets and mixtapes of banned music to her classmates. But after she's caught, she's forced to turn over a new leaf (sort of), or risk expulsion from school. Still, Wadjda keeps scheming, and with the bicycle so closely in her sights, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Explain that abused painkillers such as Oxycodone, Vicodin and methadone are responsible for more deaths than cocaine and heroin combined; that the fatalities have surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of accidental deaths in the United States. Viewers learn the dynamics of painkiller addiction and abuse through the personal stories of teens who have been hooked on legal pain killers. These teens describe the downward spiral of addiction that can eventually lead to death by overdose. Former users, physicians and drug education experts communicate the hard facts to viewers including how difficult it is for users to cope with withdrawal symptoms such as depression, anxiety, shakiness and lack of energy.

Video and print curriculum address the new craze of vaping drugs such as nicotine, alcohol, liquid marijuana and others. Through interviews with teen users and medical professionals, the program underlines the serious health risks of vaping, including drug overdose, instant high or drunk, alcohol poisoning, and impaired thinking and decision making. The narrator explains that vaping delivers an unknown dose of drugs or alcohol directly to the brain. Vaping nicotine is cited as a cause of hundreds of teens ending up in ER rooms.

Features two vignettes that help students recognize what sexual harassment is and develop a better understanding of how to deal with it.

"Teen girls need clear and accurate information about relationships, sexuality, safety, and consent more than ever. Written by two experts in teen mental health, this much-needed guide offers empowering tools to help teen girls build self-esteem, clarify their values, understand their sexual identity and boundaries, decide what feels right for them, and what to do when things go wrong so that they can safely navigate dating online and in person"--.

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

A collection of articles on the controversial topic of role models and debates the issue of placing athletes in a position where they become heroes to millions of youngsters and teens in spite of their sometimes questionable character.

"A look at how universities, the military, and other social groups can learn from past mistakes and protect their members going forward"--Amazon.

A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Twelfth Night, " in which Viola, furious when her high school drops the girl's soccer team, assumes her twin brother's identity while he is out of town to join the soccer team at his school, which causes a series of romantic complications.

Teaches students how to distinguish flirting from sexual harassment, and recognize if their own behaviors might be considered harassment by others.