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World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements interweaves the story of John Hunter, a teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his students' participation in an exercise called the World Peace Game. The game triggers an eight-week transformation of the children from students of a neighborhood public school to citizens of the world. The film reveals how a wise, loving teacher can unleash students' full potential.

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Educator's Edition DVD with Facilitator's Guide

Educator's Edition DVD with Facilitator's Guide

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The film, World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, is an excellent professional learning resource and experience for your school. At just under one hour in length, the film is an inspiring conversation starter that creates meaningful and productive dialogue around many topics.

Some of the topics that can be explored in detail after watching this film are:

developing critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
leadership development
conflict and its role in learning
the role of the teacher
the teacher’s vision of the child
the opportunity of the classroom environment
the community of the classroom
just in time teaching
relevant or real problem based learning
project based learning
developing a global perspective
assessments
and more

The educational version includes a DVD of the film and a facilitator’s guide that will help you draw out and deeply explore the various themes that present themselves in the film.

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World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements is an endearing and powerful film that vividly shows how one extraordinarily insightful and compassionate teacher, John Hunter, treated his students like the intelligent young beings they are and engaged them in a serious discussion about leadership and making tough choices in a complex world. Everyone should see this film – it is fun, thought-provoking, and truly inspiring.
Susan Hackley - Managing Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
One need only watch the faces of the students in this film to understand the power of the message in World Peace and Other Fourth Grade Achievements. Their intense engagement, trust in the relationship with their teacher, confidence in their own voices, and ability to collaborate serve as inspirations. John Hunter, in a manner both humble and poetic, articulates what it takes to create his particular variety of classroom magic and his hopefulness for the future. Teachers and school leaders everywhere should take an hour to watch this from beginning to end.
Claudia Daggett, Executive Director, Elementary School Heads Association
World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements is an inspirational documentary that engages the audience on many different levels as it follows John Hunter's mission as a teacher to challenge his students' thinking and imaginations well beyond their experiences. It will leave you motivated and hopeful about the future of the world in the hands of the young leaders in John's classroom.
J. Andrew Stamp – Associate Executive Director - Virginia Association of School Superintendents

Film Appearances and Accolades

While this film began as a simple documentary about one public-school teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia, the attention generated for this remarkable individual led to international attention. The film and Hunter have appeared at film festivals around the world, at venues as varied as the TED Conference, the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival, the United Nations, the Pentagon, Harvard University’s Law School and Graduate School of Education, and Georgetown University, among many others.

It has been also broadcasted on public television across the US, as well as in Israel, South Korea, Hungary, Romania, and throughout the Middle East. World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements inspires all audiences by documenting the formerly unheralded work of a true peacemaker.