Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher joins other state dignitaries and officials from the Kentucky Center for School Safety to kick off Safe Schools Week in this short program. It will serve as a brief introduction to events and activities around the state designed to prevent violence in schools and encourage students to take the lead in keeping their own schools safe.

The Pledge Against School Violence can be taken online at the Kentucky Center for School Safety web site.

Biz Kid$ teaches children how to make and manage money, while inspiring them to pursue their dreams. Students gain the knowledge and tools to succeed in a global economy. The series demonstrates the importance of planning, goal setting, risk taking, and thoughtful decision making within the context of financial decisions. It also encourages the skills necessary to become a successful entrepreneur through inspiring stories of real young people who have created successful businesses.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Economics, Consumer Decisions, Financial Literacy, Career Awareness, Employability Skills

This ten-part series and print curriculum addresses a host of important issues and concerns that young teens are grappling with such as handling difficult emotions, dealing with crisis, and coping with peer pressure. It also teaches students important skills such as assertiveness skills, decision skills, study skills, and the rules of common courtesy.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living Disciplines: Personal Wellness, Nutrition, Safety, Physical Wellness

Green careers are a high-demand job track for students from a wide range of academic disciplines and with a wide variety of interests. This series provides information about the educational requirements for entering the various fields. Young people are encouraged to take advantage of internships and part-time jobs to get hands-on experience while pursuing their studies. By becoming stewards of our environment, young people who choose a green career can help solve the some of the greatest problems of our time while finding work that matches their personal interests and values.

Program of Studies:
Vocational Studies:Consumer Decisions, Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills
Communication/Technology Science: Interdependence

TV411 focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects include reading comprehension, research techniques, writing to others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions, test taking, and more.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Consumer Decisions, Financial Literacy, Career Awareness, Exploration and Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

TV411 focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects include reading comprehension, research techniques, writing to others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions, test taking, and more.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Consumer Decisions, Financial Literacy, Career Awareness, Exploration and Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

These documentaries explore what middle school girls and boys are thinking, doing, and feeling. The documentaries help them and others gain a full understanding of the forces at work on their minds and bodies during their adolescent years, and how they can react to emerge stronger, wiser and more confident.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Nutrition, Safety

These gripping, unflinching programs feature true stories and real kids in a peer-to-peer format that focuses on the at-risk issues kids face everyday. CWK Network promotes the positive power of kids talking to kids, sharing their struggles and successes, so your students can understand and improve their own attitudes, behaviors, and decision-making.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety, Psychomotor Skills, Lifetime Physical Wellness

This award-winning program on sexual harassment in schools contains three video modules. The first two, “What Is Sexual Harassment?” and “Stopping Sexual Harassment,” use reenactments and dramatized interviews to define sexual harassment; show the various effects it can have on students; and show students how to respond to offensive behavior, whether they are targets or bystanders. The third module, designed for teachers, is hosted by Nan Stein of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.

This program has been flagged for content and/or language. KET strongly encourages teachers to preview the program before showing it to students. Contact KET’s Education office, (800) 432-0951, ext. 7261, for more information.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety

Street Skills is a driver’s education series designed to help teenagers become safer, more responsible drivers. Interviews with experts and computer animation get beyond the basics to explore the mechanics, physics, psychology, and biology of driving. Interviews with police officers, accident victims, and other authorities show how careless driving can lead to serious trouble. A new Street Skills “extra” will be added to the series in March 2010 to help teens understand why texting, Twittering and talking on the cell phone can be dangerous distractions.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety, Lifetime Physical Wellness

This program addresses barriers that sometimes discourage students with disabilities from pursuing a college education. Students with learning or physical disabilities talk about their experiences at a wide range of colleges and universities.

A 2002 co-production of KET and the Kentucky Developmental Disabilities Council.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills

Career Encounters is a series of documentary-style programs that explore some of today’s most challenging and rewarding career fields. Under the guidance of qualified advisors, the producers travel to the workplaces of America to find professionals and technicians who can explain what they do, how they got where they are, and why they find their work so rewarding.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

Designed for adults who are looking for a job or want to improve their skills in order to get or keep a better job, Workplace Essential Skills shows high school students what to expect from the job application process, what skills and attributes employers look for, and how those skills are put to work in real on-the-job situations. The first eight programs help the learner develop career goals and realistic plans for attaining those goals. The four programs in the Communication Skills component explore customer service, teamwork, and conflict-resolution strategies. The series also includes instructional programs in writing, reading, and mathematics within a workplace context. These programs may be used as remedial help for students who need to improve basic skills in these areas. The accompanying workbooks are written at a 6th to 7th grade reading level. Produced by KET as part of the PBS LiteracyLink Project.

Program of Studies:
English/Language Arts: Speaking, Listening, and Observing
Mathematics: Number Properties and Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Data Analysis and Probability, Algebraic Thinking
Practical Living/Vocational Studies: Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

For young men and women entering the workforce, different types of harassment are a true job hazard. In 2006, over 12,000 charges of sexual harassment were filed with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission. In this video, KET and the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts help educate young adults on what harassment is, how to identify the signs of harassment, and what they can do to stop it.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety

For young men and women entering the workforce, different types of harassment are a true job hazard. In 2006, over 12,000 charges of sexual harassment were filed with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission. In this video, KET and the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts help educate young adults on what harassment is, how to identify the signs of harassment, and what they can do to stop it.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety