Welcome to Jalmar Press!  Over 40 years of publishing activity driven materials to help kids develop social, emotional, and ethical skills from "the inside out."

Virtues Project Educators Guide, The

by Linda Kavelin Popov

The Virtues Project was honored by the United Nations during the International Year of the Family as a model global program for all cultures. It represents a holistic approach to character education that can easily be integrated and provides a wealth of character awakening activities and ideas for bringing out the best in your students and yourself.

 

  • Grades K-12
  • ISBN: 1-880396-42-4
  • Pub Date: 2000, Jalmar Press
  • 208 pages
  • Languages Sold: English, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (US, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica), Norway, Finnish, Bulgaria, German
Filed Under: Character and Values, Jalmar Press

Character Builder Series: Positive Attitudes and Peacemaking

by Dr. Michele Borba

Character traits, like skills, are learned. The Character Builders series provides simple, engaging, and effective ways to teach not just the trait but the core skills as well as expand your students’ personal, social, and academic potential and develop solid character. Filled with practical strategies, dozens of activities and step-by-step character building lessons to help students become their best

  • Grades 3-8
  • ISBN: 1-880396-59-9
  • Pub Date: 2001, Jalmar Press
  • 180 pages
  • Language Sold:  Arabic, Korean
Filed Under: Character and Values, Jalmar Press

Character Builder Series: Responsibility and Trustworthiness

by Dr. Michele Borba

Character traits, like skills, are learned. The Character Builders series provides simple, engaging, and effective ways to teach not just the trait but the core skills as well as expand your students’ personal, social, and academic potential and develop solid character. Filled with practical strategies, dozens of activities and step-by-step character building lessons to help students become their best.

  • Ages 5-11
  • ISBN: 1-880396-54-8
  • Pub Date: 2000, Jalmar Press
  • 180 pages
  • Language Sold:  Arabic, Korean
Filed Under: Character and Values, Jalmar Press

Character Builder Series: Repect for Self and Others

by Dr. Michele Borba

Character traits, like skills, are learned. The Character Builders series provides simple, engaging, and effective ways to teach not just the trait but the core skills as well as expand your students’ personal, social, and academic potential and develop solid character. Filled with practical strategies, dozens of activities and step-by-step character building lessons to help students become their best

  • Ages 5-11
  • ISBN: 1-880396-55-6
  • Pub Date: 2001, Jalmar Press
  • 180 pages
  • Language Sold:  Arabic, Korean, Spanish
Filed Under: Character and Values, Jalmar Press

Caring and Capable Kids

by Linda Williams, D. Schilling, S. Palomares

A Character Curriculum for Teaching Respect, Responsibility, Kindness, and Self-Control 

This award-winning activity book provides you with a wealth of creative ideas for helping children develop empathy and compassion, recognize the real-life consequences of acts of violence, deal effectively with anger, communicate clearly, resist negative peer pressure, and exercise sound judgment and self-discipline when confronted with tough decisions. You’ll find creative and energizing activities, individual worksheets, stories, songs, and stimulating discussion questions. A wealth of ideas for engaging students’ minds and touching their emotions. 

  • Ages K-8
  • ISBN: 9781564990679
  • Pub Date: 1996, Innerchoice Publishing
  • 202 pages
  • 8-1/2 x 11
  • Language Sold: none
Filed Under: Character and Values, Jalmar Press

Teaching the Skills of Conflict Resolution

by David Cowan, Susanna Palomares, and Dianne Schilling

Activities and Strategies – Grades K-8

The high-impact activities in this best-selling book focus on the critical skills and awareness necessary to help students learn how to prevent conflict and to successfully manage and resolve conflict when it does occur. You’ll have a variety of proven instructional strategies to help you keep kids engaged while developing important conflict management and social skills.  Activities include simulations, role-plays, reproducible experience sheets for students to complete, and a host of engaging small and large group activities and discussions and Sharing Circles.  Your students are learning while participating in these multi-experiential hands-on learning experiences designed to help them understand how their thoughts and feelings affect their behavior and what to do to have more self-control.

  • Ages K-8
  • ISBN 9781564990655
  • Pub Date: 1992, Innerchoice Publishing
  • Paperback
  • 8-1/2 x 11
  • 188 pages
  • Language Sold: Polish
Filed Under: Anger and Conflict Management, Jalmar Press

Peaceful Classroom in Action, The

by Naomi Drew

This inspiring, practical and highly usable activity book for ages 5-11 shows how to create peaceful and productive classrooms. Teach students respect, acceptance and conflict resolution skills while also improving writing and language skills. A supplementary book for “Learning the Skills of Peacemaking.”

 

  • ISBN: 1-880396-61-0
  • Pub Date: 1999, Jalmar Press
  • 192 pages
  • Language Sold:  all languages available
Filed Under: Anger and Conflict Management, Counseling Resources, Jalmar Press, Life Skills

Learning the Skills of Peacemaking

by Naomi Drew

Shows you how to promote peacemaking and problem-solving skills across the curriculum. Filled with in-depth, hands-on activities, blackline masters, program evaluation forms, scripts, role plays and more it fosters a deep understanding in students of win-win guidelines. Also includes an effective peer-mediation program with forms, training guide, script, and group role plays. A rich resource.

  • ISBN: 1-880396-42-4
  • Pub Date: 1995, Jalmar Press
  • 272 pages
  • Language Sold:  German, Portuguese
Filed Under: Anger and Conflict Management, Jalmar Press

How to Handle a Bully

by Susanna Palomares and Dianne Schilling

Highly effective prevention and intervention strategies teach students to deal with bullying safely and nonviolently. Through activities, stories, discussions and reproducibles both the victims and bystanders learn practical approaches to banishing bullies, teasers and tough guys.

 

  • Ages 8-14
  • ISBN 1-56499-048-6
  • Pub Date: 2001, Innerchoice Publishing
  • 64 pages
  • Language Sold: English, Polish
Filed Under: Anger and Conflict Management

Helping Kids Manage Grief, Fear and Anger

by Terri Akin, David Cowan, Susanna Palomares & Dianne Schilling

These activities, discussions, role plays, simulations, and worksheets are designed to help children explore, understand and express their feelings of grief, fear and anger in safe and acceptable ways.  Easy-to-understand explanations coupled with skill practice promote healthy responses to intense and sometimes overwhelming emotions.  Children become more centered and focused, communicate more effectively, and demonstrate greater interdependence and understanding. 

Use these practical, powerful activities to help children:

• understand and successfully cope with grief and loss • learn strategies for effectively dealing with fears and worries • develop practical ways for overcoming irrational fears and anxieties • learn how thoughts impact feelings • discover how to substitute moderate thoughts for anger thoughts • identify feelings that precede or precipitate anger • practice acceptable ways of expressing negative feelings • learn self-control and self-management strategies • learn simple meditation experiences to relieve stress and regain emotional balance 

  • Grades 3-8
  • ISBN: 9781564990730
  • Pub Date:  2011, Innerchoice Publishing
  • Paperback
  • 8.5 x 11
  • 116 pages
  • Language Sold:  all languages available
Filed Under: Anger and Conflict Management

Conflict Resolution Skills for Teens

  • Ages 7-12
  • ISBN 9781564990747
  • Pub Date: 1994, Innerchoice Publishing
  • 160 pages
  • Language Sold: English

by David Cowan, Susanna Palomares, and Dianne Schilling

This timely and practical book provides a variety of engaging activities, group discussions, reproducible handouts, and Sharing Circles that help teens develop the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary for effective conflict resolution.  Students are also given meaningful experiences and information to help them improve their own behaviors while giving them the abilities to deal effectively with others.  Use these high-impact activities to provide students with guidance and help in:

 

•  improving social skills •  developing the power of listening

•  exploring alternatives to conflict                              

•  effectively solving problems and making decisions   

•  learning the factors that trigger conflict

•  handling confrontations

•  learning the language of conflict de-escalation

•  coping with anger

•  managing moods and dealing with criticism             

•  understanding the rules for fighting fair
   
 
Filed Under: Anger and Conflict Management

Anger Workout Book for Teens

by Jan Stewart

Ready-to-use classroom lessons with over 40 reproducible student worksheets and hundreds of practical learning activities designed to help teens learn lifelong techniques for working with, and working out, their anger. Lessons utilize self-expression, relaxation, self-control, negotiation, compromise, and just plain letting go and moving on.

 

  • ISBN: 1-931061-13-0
  • Pub Date: 2002, Jalmar Press
  • 112 pages
  • Language Sold: English, German, Polish
Filed Under: Anger and Conflict Management