Includes twenty plays, grouped under five main headings (service, courage, quest, education, and brotherly love). Plays preceded by descriptions of historical setting, introduction to main characters, and suggested activities.
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Pediatrician and CSEE Trustee Avril Beckford offers practical suggestions to both parents and school staff members.
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A listing of texts, supplemental material, and audio-visual resources used in courses in ethics and character education, values in literature, the Bible, religious studies, and world religions in the late 1990s.
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Spencer and Tanner introduce virtue-based, utilitarian, justice-based, deontological and teleological approaches to ethical decision making, but focus primarily on applying ethics. This text encourages students to participate in debate and open discussion. The course covers several areas of applied ethics: medicine, business, environment, and gender. Includes case studies and related articles.

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Students study several ways that religious adherents read sacred texts. A comparison of devotional, analytical, and literal approaches. Concise, accessible guide developed for students.
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Provides descriptions of 78 programs that demonstrate student leaderhip. The programs highlighted in this publication received awards from the Council for Religion in Independent Schools (CSEE’s former name) between 1988 and 1994. The book includes student and faculty essays submitted with award applications.
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Introductory Bible course. Includes lessons in Genesis, Exodus, Kings, and the gospels. Designed to develop students’ discovery of and reflection about life, so that they will begin to connect the Bible’s insights with their own. Includes texts, materials, maps.
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Examination of the methods of violence (war, prejudice, personal and peer abuse) and nonviolence (civil disobedience, war resistance, disarmament, and pacifism). Designed to improve students’ ability in moral and religious thinking. This text is now over 20 years old, but contains some good material.
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This book’s 100 pages of practical suggestions are written for administrators, teachers, coaches, and others in K-12 schools. It includes background on how morals develop, games / activities to facilitate moral growth, and discusses the importance of community service and academic advising programs.
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Discusses the difficulties the children of alcoholics face in school and at home, especially regarding authority figures, the roles they assume in school, and how school people can help. The text is now two decades old, but still contains valuable insights.
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Lessons developed for an ancient history course and assume the use of either the Revised Standard Version or the new Jewish Version of the scriptures. Subject of this historical course is ancient Israel through the return from the Babylonian Captivity.
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Educator Bruce Hoff guides teachers through the complexities of both
the past and emerging Christian faith in China. The course uses David Aikman’s
textbook, Jesus in Bejing as its primary guide. Hoff’s curriculum is a clear, thorough resource for religious studies teachers.

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Review of Christianity, Judaism, and the Bible; conceptual foundations, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Includes objectives, detailed list of resources, outside activities, written assignments, vocabulary, and class plans with assignments.
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Argues that serious problems in the present educational system leave us on the edge of moral bankruptcy, threatening the system itself unless “conscience” is recovered in schools. Argues for a new understanding of “conscience.”
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The most ambitious curriculum project in the 106-year history of CSEE, Creating Classrooms is character education resource for teachers and parents of children in grades Pre-K through 6th grade. (Four volumes, one each for grades Pre-K/K, 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6.)
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The most ambitious curriculum project in the 110-year history of CSEE, Creating Classrooms is a character education resource for teachers and parents of children in grades Pre-K through 6th grade. (Four volumes, one each for grades Pre-K/K, 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6.)
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The most ambitious curriculum project in the 106-year history of CSEE, Creating Classrooms is character education resource for teachers and parents of children in grades Pre-K through 6th grade. (Four volumes, one each for grades Pre-K/K, 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6.)
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The most ambitious curriculum project in the 106-year history of CSEE, Creating Classrooms is character education resource for teachers and parents of children in grades Pre-K through 6th grade. (Four volumes, one each for grades Pre-K/K, 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6.)
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The most ambitious curriculum project in the 106-year history of CSEE, Creating Classrooms is character education resource for teachers and parents of children in grades Pre-K through 6th grade. (Four volumes, one each for grades Pre-K/K, 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6.)
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Second volume to The New CRIS Case Studies. Cover areas such as religion, social action, sports, and academics. Includes case study questions designed to provoke discussion, and related activities such as reflection papers, oral reports, and debates.
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Stories intended to help children develop their moral judgment. Basic issues include kindness, honesty, fairness, and personal integrity. Contains ten stories, background for teachers, and discussion questions.
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Anthology of articles by and about teachers who integrate ethics and/or the spiritual quest into academic courses in history, literature, general humanities, and science. Attention to both theory and practice. Companion volume is In Pursuit of Values.
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This text is now quite old, but it contains some excellent information and activities. Provides students tools to deal with death and dying more creatively and effectively in their own lives. Opportunities abound to relate to lessons to life’s ‘mini-deaths” (divorce, family move, job loss, etc.) Includes lesson plans complete with assignments.
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Misbehavior can be curbed in such a way that the misbehaving child’s autonomy and competence are still fostered, and such that the child is easily reintegrated into the classroom community. In contrast to disciplinary approaches that too often leave children frustrated and angry, Developmental Discipline fosters the kind of climate that leads to moral growth in schools.
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Presentation and analysis of a survey of school heads done by the Council for Religion in Independent Schools regarding their vision of teachers and teaching, including their moral and spiritual commitments.
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Composed by a national team of educators with expertise and experience in education for environmental sustainability, this booklet was published in paper copies for a first printing, with the support of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. The booklet explores why being reverent stewards of our Earth makes financial, social, ethical, and spiritual sense. The booklet was revised in 2007.
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Lessons in uniqueness, family love, respect, fairness, friendship, feelings, talents, rules, environment, and helping those in need. Includes introduction, lesson plans, and student activity sheets.
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A pragmatic, complete guide to developing or revitalizing an honor system in a school community. David Gould’s original text has been revised and expanded by experienced honor council advisor and workshop presenter Dr. John Roberts. It outlines the procedure for instituting an honor system and addresses ways to integrate it fully into the school’s ethos. Includes a sampling of honor codes from a variety of schools and emphasizes the honor council as a vital part of the system.
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A research-based, point-by-point, easy to read guidebook for independent school educators who care about creating a climate that nurtures the development of empathy, altruism, conscience, and moral thinking.
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Fifty lessons on biblical theology, including sin, salvation, and love, applied to modern life. Includes introductory material, objectives, teaching notes, and exercises.
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