When Holley Vaughn asked her father for help on a history paper, she never realized the effect it would have on students, teachers and families across the country. Understanding his daughter's disinterest in dry history, Greg Vaughn wondered why someone didn't do something to make it more interesting. Being a film maker, he decided that the someone should be HIM!. I am a high school teacher and teach students with behavioral disorders. Many of my kids are members of gangs. Most have a criminal record of some sort.
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Greg Vaughn (left) and Fred Holmes (right) have worked together since they began their friendship in first grade. Greg and Fred developed the In Search of the Heroes collection over a ten year period. It is now in over 25,000 schools across the U.S. The character education that In Search of the Heroes provides is what President Clinton asked schools to teach in his 1996 State of the Union Address.
Forget Me Not - The Story of Anne Frank is a springboard to launch a study into dealing with man's inhumanity to man. Learn about the Holocaust, Nazi intolerance and hatred, and the ultimate price paid for turning a blind eye to the truth. The objective is to teach students about the destructiveness of racial and ethnic prejudice.
What did it mean to be a slave before the Civil War? What are the roots of prejudice and the history of African-Americans? This dramatization shows the courage of Harriet Tubman. Freedom takes courage, Harriet shows the youth of today what it takes to pay the price to gain that freedom. In The Quest for Freedom, we meet Harriet through the eyes of a young man from our own time--a young man who has lost the courage to dream. One day he enters a mysterious library. Suddenly he's trapped in the past as a slave on a plantation with Harriet.
Susan B. Anthony is a study in the history of suffrage and other women's issues. Students also learn the value of perseverance, even if something seems to be a "lost cause". Teaching ideas and historical background are included in the handbook. And yet, the spark she lit ignited one of the greatest social uprisings of our time.
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