15 RealCare Baby Tips to Help Your Program Succeed This School Year
Preparing your RealCare Baby® infant simulators to go home with students? We’re here to help! These 15 RealCare Baby tips come from years of conversations with Baby users across the country. 1: Before deploying Baby each week, charge it overnight to ensure a full 7 day’s use. 2: During your unit on infant health and […]
The Importance of Making Healthy Choices
By Denise Bodart, RealCare Product Manager “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” “Stop while you’re ahead.” You’ve undoubtedly heard these familiar phrases used to communicate the importance of making healthy choices. As teachers, we want our students to learn from their mistakes – or better yet, we want to provide a strong foundation of knowledge to help […]
Why Parents Support the RealCare® Program: A Personal Letter
When we work with educators, social service directors, counselors and other instructors about the use of our RealCare® Total Parenting Experience product line for parenting, child care and teen pregnancy prevention programs, we often hear the honest, heartfelt reactions that students have to our experiential learning tools. From wearing the RealCare Pregnancy Profile between classes and […]
Take Your Career Readiness Lessons to the Next Level
By Denise Bodart, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager Small business owners and entrepreneurs have a significant impact on the U.S. economy. Consider these statistics: According to Entrepreneur Magazine, there are between 25 million and 27 million small businesses in the U.S., and they account for 60 to 80 percent of all U.S. jobs According to Forbes, […]
A unique RealCare® Baby career exploration opportunity
Although most of our RealCare® Baby customers are Family & Consumer Sciences (FACS) and Health educators, we recently had an opportunity to help two seventh-grade students from New York explore potential career paths. Earlier this year, we were contacted by Newark Valley Middle School FACS teacher Jessica Williams with a unique enquiry regarding two of […]
Recent Sex Ed Briefing Confirms Need for Effective Sex Education Programs
By Denise Bodart, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager Earlier this month, the Guttmacher Institute published a new State Policies in Brief – Sex and HIV Education report. This timely briefing contains updated statistics and information by state on key sex education mandates and metrics. In the past decade, sex education has been in the news frequently. […]
Learning through Play: An activity for RealCare Baby Program participants [Free download]
By Denise Bodart, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager As the American Academy of Pediatrics and numerous other child development experts have stated, play is necessary for the healthy development of a child. It contributes to their cognitive, physical, social and emotional well-being; it helps them develop executive function, imagination and creativity; it helps them practice private […]
Business teachers, are you ready to teach 21st Century students?
By Denise Bodart, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager 21st Century Learning is a technology-based learning style. To effectively communicate, collaborate and create with 21st Century students, teachers of all subjects need to utilize today’s technology. Although brick-and-mortar school buildings have remained relatively the same over the past century, the advancement of technology means the tools available to instructors are […]
Recognize National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month 2015 in Your Classroom
By Denise Bodart, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager When conducting lessons on pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, students need to consider the short- and long-term consequences of having babies and recognize the responsibilities associated with being pregnant and having a newborn. May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, and a great opportunity to discuss these important topics in […]