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Character Education
and Life Skills Articles
(How-To Articles for Public
Schools, Parents, Community Leaders and Faith Leaders)
Teaching Hints
School-Wide Practices
Character Formation
Improving the School Environment
Character Traits
Destructive Attitudes and Practices
Motivation
Athletics and Character
Parenting
How
Communities Develop Character
Books
We're Reading on Character
What's Working - Practical Suggestions from Teachers on the Front Lines
Preparing Lessons That Change Lives - Checklist for presenters.
Authenticity: Opening Your Hearts - The ins and outs of sharing personal life experiences.
Instilling Character in Students Who Learn Differently - How character education may differ for those with learning challenges.
Teaching Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Instructional Strategies and Practices - This recent document (2004) gives practical ideas that have been proven to work. Well-documented.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Teaching Literature to Change Lives - How to teach character, life-change and success through literature and language arts.
Building Character At Hilltop Elementary - How a "National School of Character" made it happen.**
Wisdom Search: Alternative to In School Suspension
Forty Developmental Assets - Building blocks of healthy development that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
Stages of Moral Development - Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the five stages of moral reasoning we go through on the path to moral maturity.
Instilling Compassion in Students
Connecting With Boys: Closing the Asset Gap - How boys are falling behind, and what we can do about it.
Resources on Fighting Prejudice and RacismPreparing Lessons that Form Character
Improving the School Environment
Fifty Ways to Show Kids You Care - A great idea list!
Climate Change: Caring Schools Heat Up Student Potential - How schools can become more caring and encouraging.
Preventing Peer Cruelty - Dr. Thomas Lickona suggests thirteen ways.
A Case for Uniforms - A research-based article on the benefits of uniforms.
Making Sense of Tolerance and Diversity - Handling controversial issues with delicacy and wisdom.
The Content of Our Character - Dr. Thomas Lickona describes ten essential virtues, which are "taught by nearly all philosophical, religious, and cultural traditions."**
Honesty - Dr. Hal Urban motivates us toward "respect in its highest form."
Modesty Revisited - Author and essayist Wendy Shalit challenges us to reconsider a lost virtue.*
Words That Hurt; Words That Heal: How to Choose Words Wisely and Well - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin helps us define gossip and slander in practical contexts and proposes a national "Speak No Evil" day.*
Ethics, One Day at a Time - Rabbi Telushkin suggests seven days of good deeds "that can transform and elevate your life, and the lives of all those around you, one day at a time."*
Inspiring Wisdom-Seekers - Transforming Reluctant Students into Lifelong Learners.
What Makes for Success? - Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's International, helps us define and achieve success.*
Helping Others - Commemorating 9/11
Cigarettes: Overview and Links
Marijuana: To Smoke or Not to Smoke?
Television: The Cyclops That Eats Books - Delightful and disturbing article by award-winning novelist Larry Woiwode.*
Saving Childhood - New York Post movie critic Michael Medved discusses the problems with media and popular culture and offers solutions.*
Why Do Shoplifters Steal? - Peter Berlin, Executive Director of Shoplifters Alternative, tells why people shoplift. By understanding the motivations, we can better help with prevention.
Wealth, Well Being and the New American Dream - Social Psychologist David G. Myers demonstrates the failure of materialism to bring happiness, and challenges us to pursue a new course.
Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age? Philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers attacks moral relativism as a root of students' moral confusion.*
Pursuing Character Education - Meeting plan for character ed coordinator to motivate and introduce staff to a new curriculum.
Rules to Play by On and Off the Playing Field - Former NFL quarterback Jeff Kemp promotes humility, honesty, leadership, vision, perseverance and spirit.*
Make Deposits in the Love Bank, Part 1 (Faith-based)
Make Deposits in the Love Bank, Part 2 (Faith-based)
The Real Cause of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of the Family - What parents can learn from the upbringing of violent criminals.*
How Communities Develop Character
Hampton Leads in Youth Engagement - How one city involves 600 young people a year in leadership, policy, and decision making.
Comments on Books - Our personal comments on books that are motivating and informing us on developing character in our students, our children and ourselves.
*Reprinted
by permission from IMPRIMIS, the national speech digest of
**Reprinted by permission of Dr. Thomas Lickona and the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs ( http://www.cortland.edu/character/default.asp ).
*Previously we published on this site a poem called "How do you live your dash?" We recently learned that this poem actually entitled, "Tha Dash," was written by Linda M. Ellis of Linda's Lyrics, http://www.lindaslyrics.com/ and that Ms. Ellis owns and has registered the copyright to her poem. We are glad that we can now credit Ms. Ellis as the author and copyright owner of "Tha Dash."
