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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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.
Each volume in the series is approximately 30 minutes in length. A printable facilitator’s guide is included on each video which contains discussion questions, writing assignments, and follow-up activities that support the lesson.
This series:
- Promotes problem-solving skills, resiliency, and caring for others.
- Encourages teens to develop positive relationships.
- Helps students with anger management and drug and violence prevention.
Sample Video Clips from the LifeSteps Series:
Creative Problem Solving
Knowing Who You Are
The ABCs of Emotional Intelligence
Purchase the complete series and SAVE or mix and match:
| Image | Name | Summary | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | LifeSteps - Character Ed / SEL Video Series with Michael Pritchard | -For grades 7-12 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. | Original price was: $899.00.$749.50Current price is: $749.50. | |
 | LifeSteps: The ABC's of Emotional Intelligence | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Success in life requires a complex set of intellectual, emotional, social and ethical skills. This introductory program outlines the key elements of emotional intelligence – Assets, Balance, and Character – as students discover they have the power to bounce back, balance emotional and academic demands, and make positive choices. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Knowing Who You Are | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video helps teens think about their behavior, learn from experience, develop a realistic sense of their strengths and weaknesses, and understand and express their emotions. Moral knowing, a key element of good character, is explored as students discover the benefit of knowing their values, and living by them. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Taking Charge | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 To become independent, teens must incorporate a range of social and emotional skills. This program focuses on the emotional side of responsibility as students explore the key elements of self-control: coping with stress, avoiding impulsive behavior, delaying gratification, and managing anger. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Bouncing Back | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Resiliency is perhaps the most important skill teenagers need to bounce back from the common disappointments of adolescence. In this program, they learn essential resiliency skills: developing realistic expectations, identifying obstacles, persisting and maintaining a sense of self-worth and optimism. More complex issues such as depression and suicidal thoughts are also discussed. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Empathy, Caring, & Compassion | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video explores the skills that build empathy, the importance of compassion, and the moral imperative to help others in need – particularly the victims of bullying. Teens learn how labeling, prejudice, and cynicism impede the development of caring relationships. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Creative Problem Solving | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video presents our eight-step problem-solving approach. Highlights include: naming the problem, brainstorming, evaluating options, and choosing the best solution. Viewers are taught the basic skill of cause-and-effect thinking and the benefits of a positive problem-solving attitude. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Getting Along with Others | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 In this program, teens discover positive ways to assert themselves, express complaints, handle misunderstandings and block rumors. They learn specific social skills – mediation, negotiation, active listening, and messages – and how to apply these skills to cooperative-learning groups and student-led activities. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Building Character | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 As teens in this program grapple with the common problem of friends who make bad choices about substance abuse, viewers learn that character means recognizing the need to make a change and having the courage and will power to stick to tough choices. Teens learn that the key to making good choices is to listen to their conscience and to the feelings they experience when their actions violate their values. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Respect | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video explores respect as a fundamental social value that allows us to resolve conflicts, prevent violence and bridge cultural differences. Barriers to respect, such as prejudice and bigotry, are explored as students learn that empathy and respect are the basis of healthy, successful relationships. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Responsibility | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Teens learn the first rule of responsibility: to do no harm to themselves or others. The program also explores sexual responsibility, dependability, and trustworthiness, as teens are taught to ask themselves the guiding question: What is the most important thing I need to be doing right now? | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Developing Healthy Relationships | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Healthy relationships are fundamental to emotional well-being. In this program, teens learn to build their own personal support system, recognize true friends, and develop positive refusal skills. The video emphasizes the importance of trust and caring in successful relationships and highlights the critical skill of negotiating with parents. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
 | LifeSteps: Doing Your Best | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This program explores the intellectual and emotional skills essential to success: coping with anxiety, setting goals, identifying obstacles, maintaining self-esteem, and identifying personal resources. An appreciation of excellence is emphasized as students learn the importance of resourcefulness, perseverance and an optimistic view of life. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. |
Click on the title below for a printer-friendly PDF file of the Teaching Guide.
- Vol. 1 Lifesteps – The ABC’s of Emotional Intelligence
- Vol. 2 Lifesteps – Knowing Who You Are
- Vol. 3 Lifesteps – Taking Charge
- Vol. 4 Lifesteps – Bouncing Back
- Vol. 5 Lifesteps – Empathy, Caring, & Compassion
- Vol. 6 Lifesteps – Creative Problem Solving
- Vol. 7 Lifesteps – Getting Along with Others
- Vol. 8 Lifesteps – Building Character
- Vol. 9 Lifesteps – Respect
- Vol. 10 Lifesteps – Responsibility
- Vol. 11 Lifesteps – Developing Healthy Relationships
- Vol. 12 Lifesteps – Doing Your Best
Purchase the complete series and SAVE or mix and match:
| Image | Name | Summary | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LifeSteps - Character Ed / SEL Video Series with Michael Pritchard | -For grades 7-12 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. | Original price was: $899.00.$749.50Current price is: $749.50. | |
| LifeSteps: The ABC's of Emotional Intelligence | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Success in life requires a complex set of intellectual, emotional, social and ethical skills. This introductory program outlines the key elements of emotional intelligence – Assets, Balance, and Character – as students discover they have the power to bounce back, balance emotional and academic demands, and make positive choices. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Knowing Who You Are | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video helps teens think about their behavior, learn from experience, develop a realistic sense of their strengths and weaknesses, and understand and express their emotions. Moral knowing, a key element of good character, is explored as students discover the benefit of knowing their values, and living by them. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Taking Charge | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 To become independent, teens must incorporate a range of social and emotional skills. This program focuses on the emotional side of responsibility as students explore the key elements of self-control: coping with stress, avoiding impulsive behavior, delaying gratification, and managing anger. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Bouncing Back | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Resiliency is perhaps the most important skill teenagers need to bounce back from the common disappointments of adolescence. In this program, they learn essential resiliency skills: developing realistic expectations, identifying obstacles, persisting and maintaining a sense of self-worth and optimism. More complex issues such as depression and suicidal thoughts are also discussed. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Empathy, Caring, & Compassion | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video explores the skills that build empathy, the importance of compassion, and the moral imperative to help others in need – particularly the victims of bullying. Teens learn how labeling, prejudice, and cynicism impede the development of caring relationships. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Creative Problem Solving | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video presents our eight-step problem-solving approach. Highlights include: naming the problem, brainstorming, evaluating options, and choosing the best solution. Viewers are taught the basic skill of cause-and-effect thinking and the benefits of a positive problem-solving attitude. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Getting Along with Others | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 In this program, teens discover positive ways to assert themselves, express complaints, handle misunderstandings and block rumors. They learn specific social skills – mediation, negotiation, active listening, and messages – and how to apply these skills to cooperative-learning groups and student-led activities. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Building Character | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 As teens in this program grapple with the common problem of friends who make bad choices about substance abuse, viewers learn that character means recognizing the need to make a change and having the courage and will power to stick to tough choices. Teens learn that the key to making good choices is to listen to their conscience and to the feelings they experience when their actions violate their values. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Respect | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This video explores respect as a fundamental social value that allows us to resolve conflicts, prevent violence and bridge cultural differences. Barriers to respect, such as prejudice and bigotry, are explored as students learn that empathy and respect are the basis of healthy, successful relationships. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Responsibility | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Teens learn the first rule of responsibility: to do no harm to themselves or others. The program also explores sexual responsibility, dependability, and trustworthiness, as teens are taught to ask themselves the guiding question: What is the most important thing I need to be doing right now? | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Developing Healthy Relationships | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 Healthy relationships are fundamental to emotional well-being. In this program, teens learn to build their own personal support system, recognize true friends, and develop positive refusal skills. The video emphasizes the importance of trust and caring in successful relationships and highlights the critical skill of negotiating with parents. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. | |
| LifeSteps: Doing Your Best | From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series -For grades 7-12 This program explores the intellectual and emotional skills essential to success: coping with anxiety, setting goals, identifying obstacles, maintaining self-esteem, and identifying personal resources. An appreciation of excellence is emphasized as students learn the importance of resourcefulness, perseverance and an optimistic view of life. | Original price was: $74.95.$69.95Current price is: $69.95. |
