Building the Workers Paradise or Energizing Staff Development Using Film Clips

Building the Worker's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns

Author: Margaret Crawford

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism--the history of communities built and owned by companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site.

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Energizing Staff Development Using Film Clips: Memorable Movie Moments That Promote Reflection, Conversation, and Action

Author: Walter R Olsen

"One of the fastest ways to provide an understanding is through a story or a visual. Film clips do both. This book is an invaluable aid to any staff developer who wants to captivate an audience and teach at the same time."
-Dr. Ruby Payne, President
aha! Process, Inc.

"Because our metaphorical minds learn through finding patterns, relationships, and analogies, the use of film clips to illuminate such elusive but enduring values as persistence, courage, empathy, creativity, and hope can accelerate their meanings more powerfully than any lecture, definition, or description."
-Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus
California State University Sacramento

Make training fun, engaging, and rewarding with this powerful and readily available technology!

Video and DVD clips give participants an opportunity to explore values and ideas, learn about one another, and, in the process, build a stronger learning community. Energizing Staff Development Using Film Clips is a collection of film and television clips that staff developers can use to encourage discussion and reflection on pertinent, common themes, including courage, communication, change, conflict, creativity, and leadership. Each chapter includes real-life examples of how clips may be used in staff development settings, quotes for extending thinking and discussion, and articles and books that relate to the chapter theme.

Each film clip section includes:

• A synopsis of the scene
• An explanation of critical themes
• Start and stop times
• The length of the clip
• Suggested discussionquestions
• Contexts for use

These stimulating, instructive film clips lead to helpful conversations, create positive plans of action, and promote learning through reflection. Whether planning a team meeting, a faculty meeting, or a training program, leaders and organizations will find a clip to generate conversations about many of the most pressing issues in education. 

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	vii
	Acknowledgments	xix
	About the Authors	xxi
1	Film Clips That Explore Conflict	1
2	Film Clips That Explore Courage and Ethics	27
3	Film Clips That Explore Persistence, Commitment, and Values	51
4	Film Clips That Explore Creativity and Building Capacity	75
5	Film Clips That Explore Keeping Hope Alive	95
6	Film Clips That Explore Change	117
	Afterword	135
	Resource: Some Pretty Firm Guidelines for Using Film Clips in Training	137
	Index	139