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Welcome to the NWCSI Resource Library. All of the books, videos and tapes listed below are media that we have available to share with NWCSI members.
If you are interested in borrowing an item from our library, please e-mail your requests to info@nwcsi.org.
 



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Administration
Christianity & Education
Convention Materials
History		 Jubilee 2000
Math
Media Literacy
Music		 Science
Standardized Testing
Understanding by Design
Other





ADMINISTRATION                                                             ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
Beginning a Christian School: a Planning Guide for Churches and Christian Communities  
Hiring a New Leader: a Planning Resource for Christian School Boards  
Holding Christian Schools in Trust
A training video for boards  (includes Leader's Guide)

Video
School Sleuth: The Case of an Excellent School
"The Merrow Report," hosted by John Merrow, investigates what sets an excellent school apart from poor or mediocre schools.

Video
40 min
Vision to Action: Standards and Procedures, CSI Accreditation  




CHRISTIANITY & EDUCATION                                       ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
Bible Materials - The Story of God & His People:
        CSI resource.		  
Convention Materials (NWCSI-CTABC Convention):
          Michael Goheen (1999)
                 - Convention keynote address
                 - 2 videos, audiotapes and written
                   transcript of the address
         Dr. Cornelius Plantiga - 1998
                 - Video & audio tape
         Dr. Richard Edlin (1998)
                  - Video & audio tape
         Dr. John Bolt (1988)
         Dr. Joel Nederhood (1986)
         Dr. John Hulst (1986)
         Dr. Bremer - Sinking or Sailing  (1986)		  
CSI District 11 Curriculum Materials:
        Social Studies Grades 7,8, and 9 (1997)		  
Hiring a New Leader:
    A Planning Resource for Christian School Boards		  
Holding Christian Schools in Trust
        A training video for boards  (includes Leader's Guide)

Video
The Jubilee 2000/USA
        Education Packet and 24-minute video

Educational Packet & Video
24 min
Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools Curriculum Materials:
       The Wonders of Music:
              - Grades 1-3 integrated Studies (1996)
       People in the Coniferous Forest Biome
              - Grade 7&8 Teacher Resource Manual (2000)
       The Middle Ages: The Establishment of Christianity
              - Grade 7 Teacher Resource Manual (2000)
       The Reformation: Redefining Christendom
              - Grade 7 Teacher Resource Manual (2000)		  
SCSBC - Christian Pathways for Schooling:
         Core Statements
        Language Arts Handbook, Vol 1 & 2
        Learning Assistance Handbook
        Living, Loving and Learning: A Kindergarten Resource
        Responding to a School Emergency:
                  Putting an Effective Plan in Place
        The Story of God and His People:
                 Supplementary Teaching Strategies K-5
        Visual Arts Activity Handbook		  
Vision to Action: Standards and Procedures, CSI Accreditation  

 




CONVENTION MATERIALS                                             ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
Convention Materials (NWCSI-CTABC Convention):
         Michael Goheen (1999)
                 - Convention keynote address
                 - 2 videos, audiotapes and written transcript of address
         Dr. Cornelius Plantiga - 1998
                 - Video & audio tape
         Dr. Richard Edlin (1998)
                  - Video & audio tape
         Dr. John Bolt (1988)
         Dr. Joel Nederhood (1986)
         Dr. John Hulst (1986)
         Dr. Bremer - Sinking or Sailing  (1986)		  

 




HISTORY                                                                                       ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools
Curriculum Materials:
        The Middle Ages: The Establishment of Christianity
               - Grade 7 Teacher Resource Manual (2000)
       The Reformation: Redefining Christendom
               - Grade 7 Teacher Resource Manual (2000)		  

 




JUBILEE 2000                                                                    ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
The Jubilee 2000 - USA
        Education Packet and 24-minute video

Educational Packet & Video
24 min





MATH                                                                                    ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
NCTM Standard Focused Math Resource Samples  
Principles & Standards for School Mathematics
      NCTM (2000)		  
Principles & Standards for School Math Outreach Kit
       NCTM (2000)

Video

 




MEDIA LITERACY                                                             ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
Advertising and the End of the World
      - From Sut Jhally		 Video
 40 min
Break the Lie that Binds: Sexism in the Media
      - Workshop kit		 Workshop Kit

Changing the World through Media Education
      - Grades 4-8

 Classroom Resource
Citizenship in a Media Age
      - Workshop kit		 Workshop Kit
Escape from Affluenza
      - Video rom KCTS		 Video
Global Questions: Exploring World Media Issues
      - Video & educational packet		 Classroom Resource
& Video
Images of Conflict:
Learning from Media Coverage of the Gulf War
       - Workshop kit includes the video "Lines in the Sand"		 Workshop Kit & Video

Kids Talk TV Inside Out:
A guide for helping 9,10, & 11 year olds explore
and evaluate the world of Television

Classroom Resource
& Video
 
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Images of Women
       - Video with Jean Kilbourne		 Video
 34 min
Living in the Image Culture
      - Workshop Kit		 Workshop Kit
Meat : Images of Women in Media
      - Brief video		 Video
 7 min
Media Literacy: What’s in the News
      - 1998 video		 Video
 15 min
Media Sense:
Strategies to help students analyze and produce
a variety of media texts (Grades 4, 5, 6)		 Classroom Resource
News for the 90s: How to analyze the News Media
      - Workshop kit 		Workshop Kit
Parenting in a TV Age
      - Workshop kit		 Workshop Kit
Selling Addiction
      - Workshop kit & video		 Workshop Kit
& Video
TV Alert: A wake-up Guide for Television Literacy
      - Workshop kit		 Workshop Kit
TV Planet: Discover the Secrets of Television
      - 26 minute video		 Video
26 min
Understanding Media CD
      - From the New Mexico Literacy Project		 CD
What Is Visual Literacy
     - An inservice video workshop on reading visual texts		 Video Workshop




MUSIC                                                                                   ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

 MEDIA TYPE
The Wonders of Music:
        - Grades 1-3 integrated Studies
        - From the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools  (1996)

 




SCIENCE                                                                              ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

 MEDIA TYPE
People in the Coniferous Forest Biome
        - Grade 7&8 Teacher Resource Manual
        - From the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools (2000)

 
Science Education Reform
    - Annenberg/CPB  Math & Science Collection designed
      to engage professional educators in issues of science
      education reform. 		 




STANDARDIZED TESTING                                              ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

 MEDIA TYPE
Beyond the Standards Movement:
Defending Quality Education in an Age of Test Scores
   - In this video Alfie Kohn presents:
             "a compelling case that a preoccupation with raising standards may
             have exactly the opposite effect. Instead of motivating students to
             learn and teachers to excel, it will create a system driven by coercion,
             a fear of failure, and unrelenting competition between students,
             teachers, and schools - all of which undermines excellence."

Video
Secrets of the SAT
   - Video of a Frontline examination on the debate over
     fairness in college admissions and the impact of
     standardized tests on diversity in college campuses.

Video
60 min

 




UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN                                              ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
Curriculum Mapping; Charting the Course for Content
     - 2 videos and facilitators guide.

Videos &
Facilitator's Guide
Mapping the Big Picture:
Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12
      - by Heidi Hayes Jacobs		  
Understanding by Design 2:
Using the Backward Design Process
       - Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe explain how to use the
         backward design approach to curriculum planning
         advocated in their book Understanding by Design.
       ** I highly recommend this video along with other related
          materials (see below).

Video
 25 min
Understanding by Design
       - by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe		  
Understanding by Design Handbook
       - by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins		  
"What is Understanding?"
       - 40-min. video, ASCD

Video
 40 min




OTHER RESOURCES                                                                ( to top )

TITLE & DESCRIPTION
 

MEDIA TYPE
Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School
       - Books in Action video & book from ASCD		 Video & Book
Learning About Learning
       - 20 minute video and Leader’s Guide

Video &
Leader's Guide
Minds of Our Own
       - Programs 1 - 3 on three videos with accompanying
         Teacher’s Guide		 Videos &
Teacher's Guide


 

 




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