Character Education

Quality character education helps schools create a safe, caring and inclusive learning environment for every student and supports academic development. It fosters qualities that will help students be successful as citizens, in the workplace, and with the academic curriculum. It lays the foundation to help students be successful in all of the goals we have [...]

Christine Carter, Phd says ” One of the top fundamental keys to well-being and mental health is emotional literacy.” She is with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and says that for emotional literacy in children, as well as good development of character, there exists a small time opportunity to be taken benefit [...]

What do states like Indiana, Colorado, Florida, Washington, California, and New Jersey have in common? They all at one time boasted to have strong guidance and counseling programs at the elementary school level. But in a new era of record budget deficits and fiscal uncertainty, school systems around the nation are being forced to drastically [...]