David Streight
Streight has been Executive Director of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education since 2004. He spent thirty years as a teacher and school psychologist working in Catholic, public, and private independent schools. He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, a past president of a state association for school psychologists, and a frequent workshop presenter. He served ten years as U.S. Secretary for the European-based Association pour la Défense des Langues et Cultures Ménacées, and as an officer in the Association pour la Promotion de la Culture Provençale. Streight is currently host for the teacher section of the PBS/WNET website, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.
Items by David Streight
Advisory Systems at Their Best
Empowerment, modeling, mission, and purpose: practices for Advisory time. For Members: Read more here.
Are We Really Educating the Spirit?
David Streight provides suggestions for how schools can step toward educating the spirit. For Members: Read more here.
Character Education Starting at Zero
A call to weave character education into your school's mission and daily practice. For Members: Read more here.
From the Executive Director: Advisory
A set of audit questions for Advisory coordinators about their programs. For Members: Read more here.
From the Executive Director: On Basketball and the Moral Growth of a School
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From the Executive Director: Research Shows Little Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
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From the Executive Director: Three Things Schools Can Do to Decrease Spiritual Voids
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Good Things To Do: Expert Suggestions for Fostering Goodness in Kids
We asked several of the foremost names in child development and education to offer their practical wisdom for helping young people grow in goodness, academic integrity, compassion, understanding, development of the spirit, and more. Read more here.
Marketing to Tweens, Nudging for Purpose
Giving students meaning and purpose in life can fill the tween void. For Members: Read more here.
Parenting for Character: Five Experts, Five Practices
Four decades of research point to five practices that, when implemented by parents, lead to the development of children who are altruistic and empathic, and who have strong consciences and moral reasoning skills. In this booklet, five of North America’s leading child development researchers and character education trainers explain these practices. This booklet was written with an independent school parent audience specifically in mind. Read more here.
What Makes A School Stand Out for the Quality of Its Character?
The Character Education Partnership (CEP) annually identifies 10 schools (or in some cases, school districts) with the distinction “National School of Character.” For Members: Read more here.