CSEE Resources for Character Education
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Books
Building Moral Communities: A Guide for Educators
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. For more information, visit our library.
Highly Effective Programs: Character Education for Independent Schools
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. To purchase, visit our library
Creating Classrooms and Homes of Virtue
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.) For more information, visit our library
Discipline for Moral Growth
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. For more information, visit our library.
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, compassion, understanding, development of the spirit, and more. What they offered are treasures, both readable and of tremendous importance. For more information, visit our library.
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. For more information, visit our library
Allow Your Children to Fail if You Want Them to Succeed
Pediatrician and CSEE Trustee Avril Beckford offers practical suggestions to both parents and school staff members in this book. For more information, visit our library.
The Grounds On Which We Dwell
Series of twelve essays by the former director of the Council for Religion in Independent Schools on establishing a moral community at school. For more information, visit our library.
Other Texts Recommended by CSEE
Nice is Not Enough
by Larry Nucci
216 pages
For more information, visit our library.
Learning to Trust
by Marilyn Watson and Laura Ecken
352 pages
For more information and to purchase this text, visit this link:
Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms Through Developmental Discipline
Smart and Good High Schools
by Tom Lickona and Matthew Davidson
227 pages
It's Up To You... What Do You Do?
by Sandra McLeod Humphrey
One of Humphrey's many books full of case studies and hot topics for class discussion and reflection. For more information on these books, visit the Kids Can Do It site.
Podcasts
Discipline Strategies that Support Character Growth
A chapter from CSEE's print publication Good Things to Do, by Marilyn Watson, Ph.D. Read by Sue Knight. This podcast is available in our library.
Articles
For articles on character education, follow this link to our library.
Professional Development Events
Exemplary Programs for Lower School Character Education
2012 Institute for Training Ethical Education Leaders