Private Screening Links and Samples

I am excited to share these preview links for the short and long form documentaries and sample discussion guides with you. Please distribute this page to colleagues only.

I would, of course, be delighted for you to spread the word about the project in general by sharing the website with trailer and my contact info with any one who may be interested:
ChangingByTheMinute.com
Camilla Calamandrei
RollingRiverMedia@gmail.com

Summary:

The Changing By The Minute documentary tool kit includes: a 10min short film, a 62min feature film, discussion guides and bonus materials. The tool kit is currently in Beta test and will be final as of July, 2022.

Our goal is to help reverse the narrative of early adolescence as a negative time, support SEL training for professionals, and help engage 10-14 year olds in meaningful, inclusive conversations as they recover from two years of disrupted learning. We are looking for partners to help us put the tool kit to work across the country: for professional development and student engagement in schools serving 10-14 year olds, after school / OST programs, college education programs and public screenings for parents and families. Ideally the materials would be offered at no cost to the schools, and be offered through existing channels.

To Date:

The documentary tool kit has been vetted and endorsed by numerous teacher educators, researchers, middle grade educators and school counselors, as well as child development specialists.

The Lefkofsky Foundation Success Bound program is using the tool kit with 200 public schools in Chicago:
— directly with middle grade students
— with educators and administrators as part of professional development

University of Virginia: Youth Nex Center for Positive Youth Development will be using the tool kit
— in their “Re-Making Middle School” design labs working directly with middle schools, as a means to launch early brainstorming about different ways of “doing” middle school and the ways in which the practices used by the school in the film reflect the science of adolescence.
— in two national events and one regional event for parents, educators, and school counselors

Middle Grades Collaborative is using the tool kit in their annual Middle Grades Institute June 2022

AMLE will be featuring the documentary at their annual conference Nov, 2022.

The short film and discussion guides are being used in Beta form at:
Mississippi State College of Education
Otterbein Univ. Department of Education
Rutgers Univ. Mason Gross School of the Arts
Univ. of Maine College of Education and Human Development
Univ. of Vermont College of Education and Social Services