Carrollton, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/13/2010 -- Launched in 2008, the Achiever McBeaver and The College Crew character education program has achieved great success in a short period of time. Utilizing the broad reach of a school PA system, elementary schools are able to present campus wide Character Education material without draining already thin staff manpower or taking much time from the classroom. In an economic climate of severe budget cutbacks, school counselor/teacher layoffs, steep academic demands, and drastic record deficits – Achiever Radio is now reaching tens of thousands of students as principals look for new, efficient, effective, and innovative ways of meeting character education needs.

The educator design team at Achiever Radio announced in the spring of 2010 a new grant program specifically created for Tile 1 campuses. The Achiever McBeaver educator team desires to impact students at our nation's neediest schools, and as such have recently extended the grant program to include an additional 12 Title 1 campuses. Schools that are approved into this limited program will receive free radio kit materials for campus wide use. The grant program is to begin in the 2010-2011 calendar school year – for more information regarding the grant or to apply – please contact the Achiever Radio team at info@achievermcbeaver.com.

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Carrollton, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/08/2010 -- In the fall of 2008, the educator design team at Achiever McBeaver radically changed how elementary schools are able to present quality Character Education Programs material to their K-6 students. In an economic climate where many school districts are unable to afford full time counselors for each individual campus - the unique Achiever Radio program allows a school to implement a simple, time friendly, wide reaching, and effective character values program without draining staff manpower or taking much time from the school day. Because the easy to use "cartoon radio" program utilizes the school wide reach of the PA system, a building principal can easily reach an entire campus in 8 minutes or less per week.

Achieving great program success - within just one year - many tens of thousands of elementary students are hearing the Achiever Radio program weekly. However, the educator design team at Achiever McBeaver is set to announce a new grant program geared specifically for Title 1 campuses. With a desire to positively impact children at some of our nation's neediest schools, the Achiever Radio Character Education grant program will partner Achiever McBeaver and his College Crew friends with up to 12 Title 1 schools per calendar year in order to provide free radio kit materials. The Title 1 program is set to begin in the fall of 2010 – for more information regarding the grant or to apply for your campus – please contact the Achiever Radio team at info@achievermcbeaver.com.

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Carrollton, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/31/2009 -- With the success of the Character Education (http://www.iamgoingtocollege.com) series launched in August of 2008, the Achiever McBeaver educator team is set to roll out a new bullying prevention series. Like the original Achiever Radio series, the bullying prevention program will consist of 36 short "cartoon radio" episodes that are to be played weekly and the radio shows will continue to utilize the school PA/sound system for the main delivery of content. The radio shows have been highly successful across the country because of the program's ease of use, simple delivery format, and time saving nature. In an economic time where counselors, teachers, and principals are stretched to do much more with much less, the Achiever Radio Programs are a fun and simple way to deliver school wide character values instruction without having to drain important time or resources from regular classroom instruction.

In the new bullying prevention series, the high energy and extreme craziness returns as resident bad guy Wonkers the Weasel has a whole new set of wicked plans cooked up for The College Crew. In this radio adventure program, Wonkers realizes that in series 1 he didn't do a very good job attacking the moral character of the college kids at Big Forest State, so now Wonkers attempts to break up friendships, damage relationships, and cause one major interpersonal crisis after another! But like always, Achiever and Pester work together to help their friends overcome Wonkers' sneaky and underhanded schemes.

Now, we don't want to give any plot lines away, but we hear Pester becomes friends with some aliens …even outer space isn't safe from our nutty squirrel!

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Carrollton, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/17/2009 -- In the fall of 2008, the educator design team at Achiever McBeaver radically changed the way elementary schools present Character Education material to students. Designing the program based on the needs of time crunched counselors and educators, Achiever Radio has become a fun, low cost, simple to use, and wide reaching method of creating behavior change in less than 8 total minutes per week. Because the "cartoon radio" program utilizes the school wide reach of the PA system and requires little time investment from staff members - within just one year - tens of thousands of elementary students are hearing the Achiever Radio program weekly.

Now, the educators at Achiever McBeaver are taking the Character Education Programs one step further … offering an unheard of 90 day money back guarantee. The educator design team is so confident that the program will be enjoyed by your students, that schools can use Achiever Radio risk free for up to 3 months … and then return if for a full refund if it doesn't meet expectations. No other character education program offers anything close!

Achiever McBeaver is radically changing the way schools present character education material to their students. More importantly, Achiever McBeaver is radically changing the lives of many students around the country … and that is the true goal of any educator.

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Achiever McBeaver Character Education: College Goals are Essential for Success

Carrollton, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/10/2009 -- Passion makes a difference! Students need to be passionate about their own education. Kids shouldn't be passionate just because adults want them to be - but instead – they must be passionate because school is important to THEM. When elementary aged kids have thought about college and career goals - and when they have a dream that fuels their own efforts - learning becomes for THEM and not for OTHERS. When school based learning becomes an intrinsic process that meets a child's internal needs … no challenge in the classroom will ever be too great … and nothing will ever be hard enough to hold that student back from achieving educational success.

Our kids need goals to shoot for - without them they will always choose the path of academic least resistance. Challenges will go unmet, opportunities will be squandered, and kids will all too often refuse to push themselves beyond the expectation of the classroom teacher. In an attempt to provide the added impetus for dreaming about college and careers, the Achiever McBeaver character education program & Character Education Resources encourages children to focus on the future, reach for the stars, gain a vested interest in school, and develop obtainable career goals. Most kids that under perform in the classroom are those that find little relevance to school, but when children have thought about career goals and hold a desire for the future - school becomes meaningful. And, when something you are doing is meaningful … of course you will do better at it!

Furthermore, with a weakened economy and rising college tuition costs, so many parents think that college for their children is an unreachable dream … but it isn't! College goals (including trade, technical, 2 year, junior, and community college) should be a primary focus for each and every child - no matter your income level. Websites like http://www.iamgoingtocollege.com offer information and access to over $80 billion in free college funding. The money is there, you just need to know where to look!

Dare your kids to dream about the future and help them reach for it … you will be amazed at the results!

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Carrollton, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/20/2009 -- Here are two words that are becoming increasingly popular across the country … "budget cutbacks." In the middle of a nasty global recession that has gripped many industries … our nation's school systems are painfully feeling the pinch too. As a result of poor economic conditions, many elementary school counsellors are finding themselves working at more than one campus or wearing many hats in their building as they absorb the effects of staff downsizing. In essence, school counsellors are finding that with an increased workload and continued strains being placed on the position … time has become a highly valued commodity.

As a result of increased time demands, those counsellors that like to present character education programs/lessons in each and every classroom several times per month are finding it difficult to successfully make that type of weekly commitment. In an effort to help our nation's K-6 school counsellors find a way to deliver high quality character education lessons on a weekly and ongoing basis, Achiever Radio offers a unique approach utilizing the reach of the school PA system. Designed by classroom educators, Achiever Radio has developed a 36 episode cartoon radio show that allows a counsellor to deliver character education programming school wide in under 8 minutes per week.

With the single push of a "play" button, an entire campus can be reached with a minimum amount of time required. These specially designed PA lessons utilize familiar cartoon sounds and are designed to unfold much like a storybook as the main characters develop better behaviour choices over the course of the entire series. Using solid teaching techniques and key sound reinforcers, each radio show has been designed as a self-guiding mini-lesson that does not need immediate review by a counsellor or teacher. Yet, with the inclusion of simple support lessons and materials - if the counsellor so chooses – he or she can quickly follow up with students across the campus on a semi-regular basis. The Achiever Radio PA system format has been proven over and over to be a fun, simple to implement, low cost, and effective tool for developing listening skills and creating behavioural change in K-6 students.

The educator design team at Achiever Radio hopes to help elementary counsellors maximize the use of their time and touch the lives of children across the country.

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Carrollton, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/01/2009 -- If you have a child or work with children, then you surely know the feeling. Ever have your kiddo not listen to you? Of course you have! We've all been there!

The educator design team from Achiever McBeaver character education has made the bold move to declare war on student listening skills! Let's face it we live in a microwave society where everything is done in an instant. Let's be honest, how many times do we peek into the microwave rushing our 3 minute TV dinner along to perfection? Or how often do we get upset if forced to wait in line for a few minutes extra at a fast food drive thru. No wonder our kids are in a hurry – and usually too much of a hurry to listen.

Modern technology is awesome – 20 years ago who would have thought that we'd have the technological reach, power, and diversity that we have available today! But, with that advancement there is also a great sacrifice being made at the expense of our young children. The Achiever McBeaver (http://www.iamgoingtocollege.com/character_education/index.htm ) character education team believes that an old and dying technology needs to be brought back to the forefront as part of an assault against the rush and hurry of the world. The argument to be made is that TV and video media has actually robbed students of certain types of educational skills that they need in order to be successful as future adults. Although it is a wonderful, powerful, extremely entertaining, and highly necessary medium, TV/video formatting actually takes away student interaction or involvement in the learning process as the viewer is typically a passive participant during the program. To accent the point being made, many people "self-medicate" with the use of television to fall asleep at night … why … because it is a passive process!

However with "old fashioned" radio style formatting, students are actively engaged in the material as they are asked to use their imagination, fantasy, creativity, critical thinking, interpretive reasoning, and listening skills. With the students having been an active participant instead of a passive bystander in the action, lessons are better internalized, digested, and become more of an integral part of a student's individual daily habits. Even with all the modern technological advancements, teachers to this very day still choose to read books aloud to their students … because so many important and basic skills are developed with the listening process!

With the recent launch of Achiever Radio Character Education Programs, these lost blessings of radio have been recovered! Based on a "cartoon radio" style of programming that uses familiar sounds from popular television cartoon series like SpongeBob - kids in grades K-6 are able to acquire development of new listening skill sets while at the same time learning about the character values and social skills that make us successful both now in a school setting and in the future as adults. Written to a high level of learning, these short radio cartoon episodes capture the attention of the higher learners while the familiar cartoon sounds grab the immediate attention of younger learners. Initial reports from elementary and intermediate schools have seen up to 40% reductions in office referrals and up to 50% reductions with student incident reports. Due to the ease of media operation, simple to integrate lessons, and lack of required preparation, schools also report great feedback from administrators, counselors, and staff members.

Radio media is such a simple technological process and may have gone out with the dinosaur - but if the Achiever McBeaver character education team has anything to say about it – you are going to see a radio revival in schools across the country!

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