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Welcome to Feature Focus. These films will be streamed free of charge to CCPS families and educators. Registration is required to assure participants receive the streaming link. Link to register below film description.
Welcome to Feature Focus. These films will be streamed free of charge to CCPS families and educators. Registration is required to assure participants receive the streaming link. Link to register below film description.
This series focuses on the stressors many families and students face in their home life and school career.
This series focuses on the stressors many families and students face in their home life and school career.
Each film will be paired with a webinar that may include the filmmaker or a specialist who can discuss the information shared in the film.
Each film will be paired with a webinar that may include the filmmaker or a specialist who can discuss the information shared in the film.
Screenagers Next Chapter
Screenagers Next Chapter
April 27, 2021 - 6:30 p.m.
Filmmaker and physician Dr. Delaney Ruston takes the conversation around screens and teens to the next level with Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience—a film that examines the science behind teen’s emotional challenges, the interplay of social media, and most importantly, what can be done in our schools and homes to help them build crucial skills to navigate stress, anxiety, and depression in our digital age. This is an exciting follow-up to the first film, Screenagers, and CCPS is pleased to host the film.
Please use the link below to register. Viewing opportunities, per family, are limited.
Chasing Childhood
Chasing Childhood
Postponed until
2021-2022
School year.
We apologize for any inconvience.
Chasing Childhood was filmed before the pandemic, but the issues explored are even more profoundly relevant today: what is the changing landscape of contemporary childhood and parenting? What is best for my kid? These questions transcend zip code and demographics.
Chasing Childhood is a feature documentary that explores the rapidly changing landscape of contemporary childhood and parenting. In today’s childhood, confined by structure, stranger danger, and helicopter parenting, free-play has virtually disappeared. Experts are ringing the alarm bell about the dramatic rise in anxiety and depression in young children and teens. What if all this well-intended hovering, fear and over-scheduling has backfired? The film takes us to three communities that are trying to shift culture to create room for play and independence with the hope of raising kids to become competent, healthy, and happy adults.
High School 911
High School 911
Viewing dates for High School 9-1-1 will begin May 14th and run through May 17th prior to the webinar discussion.
Webinar Discussion May 17, 2021 6:30 p.m.
High School 9-1-1 chronicles a year in the life of the only ambulance service in Darien, Connecticut that just happens to be run by high school teenagers?! This one-of-a-kind organization services 20,000 residents 365 days a year, 24/7 and responds to over 1500 emergency calls annually.
The foundation of Darien EMS–Post 53 is the empowerment of young people through adult and peer mentorship. “Posties” are taught a multitude of managerial, critical thinking and emergency medical skills and then given the responsibility to implement what they have learned by actually running their own EMS organization.
The goal of the film is to inspire and empower teenagers as well as motivate the adults in their lives—parents, educators, school administrators, community leaders—to create opportunities for them to become empowered, learn by doing and make a difference in their communities.
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