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CFLE Network - Winter 2012

CDC's Division of Reproductive Health Website

CDC's Division of Reproductive Health is pleased to announce a new Web page for health care providers with tools, resources, media, and messages on what they can do to reduce teen pregnancy.

Father goes into baby crib
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Father goes into baby crib

This video charmer is dedicated to all the Dads out there who are willing to do just about anything to get Baby to settle down for the night. Forward the link to your favorite dad!

Ruidoso Bear Rescue Mission
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Ruidoso Bear Rescue Mission

A mother bear’s protective nature with her young is so well-known that we use its descriptive term in everyday language - “Momma bear.”  In this adorable video, a mother bear whose cubs are in trouble gets some help from some human friends.

2012 Kids Count Data Book
from 2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book now available

2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book

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Counting Couples, Counting Families
from The National Center for Family & Marriage Research - new report

Counting Couples, Counting Families

Read the full report here

Mandela Story
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Mandela Story

Nelson Mandela turned 94 recently. His life has been amazing and has changed not only South Africa but the world.  This clever short film shows how Mandela’s life events would have been recorded if they had happened now, in the era of social media

Stephen Hawking on Higgs Discovery has lost me $100
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Stephen Hawking on Higgs Boson Discovery: it cost me $100!

Enjoy this charming video of Professor Stephen Hawking cheerfully losing his bet over the discovery of the "Higgs Boson" particle.

Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs that have Significant Positve Impacts

Child Trends' latest brief, Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs That Have Significant Positive Impacts, identifies 43 programs that have somewhat to very sizable, statistically significant impacts on adolescent or young adult outcomes. The brief uses Child Trends' online database of experimentally evaluated social interventions for children and youth, Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully (LINKS), to identify programs with manuals that have positive impacts on a range of outcomes, such as behavior problems, physical health, and education.

James Marshall and Wally Goddard
for Members ONLY

To teach effectively, design intentionally

by James Marshall, Ph.D., LMFT, Associate Professor of Family Life, University of Arkansas, and H. Wallace Goddard, Ph.D., CFLE, Professor of Family Life, University of Arkansas

... the best instruction balances four different elements of oral or written instruction, according to David Merrill, who has developed a system of instructional design called Component Display Theory (CDT)