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PURPOSE: Book 1 in the 12-book Dart's Mentoring Series provides a resource text to help teachers and other adults facilitate a better understanding of values during a child's developmental years.

TARGET GROUP: Dart's Mentoring Series addresses an elementary school student audience. However, older students may benefit from the principles that are presented in the literary work... More

PURPOSE: Book 1 in the 12-book Dart's Mentoring Series provides a resource text to help teachers and other adults facilitate a better understanding of values during a child's developmental years.

TARGET GROUP: Dart's Mentoring Series addresses an elementary school student audience. However, older students may benefit from the principles that are presented in the literary work. Teachers will find this a resource to teach human values.

DESIRED OUTCOMES: The series will provide adults and students with opportunities to relate real-life values. The series will support, enhance and reinforce other mentoring activities. Text will generate ideas and beliefs germane to developing a positive value system.

SUMMARY: In conclusion, the series will produce appropriate, useful and high interest materials to help students, parents and teachers understand of the entire community in the development of positive citizenship. Gemstones have been valued as a symbol for each month. Consequently, these stones are also known as birthstones. Most people hold special emotions about their birth month, a value in itself. Therefore, the use of gemstones to teach the values of each stone give each child's birth month a symbolic value for life experiences. Dart's series begins with the Peridot, the gemstone for August and the traditional month to begin the academic school year. The Peridot is used as a vehicle to convey the values for back-to-school. The series of Dart's gemstones will teach about gems in the context of values for life success.