Across The Waves: Celebrating The Asian Pacific Community

Excerpt from blog originally published on Why Platinum?

Agents of Farmers Insurance and The Platinum Elite Group are committed to the children of the communities they serve. With governmental budgetary constraints affecting schools, any help given to a teacher for his or her classroom can come in very handy.

One such area of support comes in the educational series of DVD's, readers, and lesson plans geared for all grade levels offered free to educators. Perfect for public or private schools, or home schoolers.

"Farmers free resources offer new and innovative tools for bringing lessons in democracy, diversity, history, the arts and literacy to your classroom. The programs and lesson plans will engage elementary school students and help them develop life-long curiosity and love of learning."

Fire safety and child identification programs are also available through your Platinum Elite Team Member. One such DVD is Across The Waves: Voices from the Asian-Pacific American Community.

To preview this and other programs in the series, go to GoFarmersEd.com.

"Across the Waves Brings together eight Asian Pacific American communities who share their struggles and triumphs in their own words. With all original interviews never before seen with stories that are fundamental to understanding the Asian-Pacific American community, Across the Waves provides insights and information not found in middle and high school history books. Narrated by Ming Na (E.R.) and Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy)."

The Japanese Community

The Korean Community

The Filipino Community

Other communities explored on the DVD include: Indian, Vietnamese, Hmong, Cambodian, and Chinese.

Farmers Educational Documentary on Women's History Featured at Film Festival

Second to None featured at international film festival

Farmers' latest educational film, Second to None: Inspiring Stories of Extraordinary Women, was chosen among hundreds of submissions to be one of only eight documentaries from around the world to be screened at the fourth annual Columbia Gorge International Film Festival on Aug. 14, in Vancouver, Wash.

Click to read our past blogs on these and related educational films made available to educators for free.

Holly Hunter Narrates Second to None.

Distributing to Teachers.

Across the Waves - The Asian / Pacific Community

Freedom's Song - African American Heritage

The festival is one of the most prestigious in the Northwest, featuring more than 300 films representing 40 different countries. 

Portland area Farmers agents attended the event, handing out free copies of the documentary and the accompanying lesson plan to local educators in attendance. Since the film's release in March, Second to None has been distributed to more than 20,000 schools throughout Farmers territory, reaching more than 600,000 students in less than six months. 

"In these hard economic times, it's especially challenging for schools to update their curriculum and educational programs," says Erin McCulloch, Lake Oswego, Ore. "I'm honored to represent an organization that prioritizes giving back to our communities and schools with these award-winning programs."

Visit www.GoFarmersEd.com to learn more.

Second to None is the seventh education program Farmers has sponsored and distributed free to educators through our agents. It's the fourth documentary produced by Farmers internal creative team, Randy Rice, national manager of education programs, and Dan Winter, director of audio visual communications.