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Publications

U.S. Department of Education's Character Education and Civic Engagement Technical Assistance Center

Student Involvement in Character Education
E-Newsletter, Summer 2005, Volume 1, Issue 2

http://www.cetac.org/newsletter/CETAC_Newsletter_Vol1Is2.pdf
PSLA Director, Dr. Cynthia Belliveau, has written an article entitled "Students as Evaluators of Education." Read about how Pennylvania students are being trained as participant evaluators. These students are taking on the important task of documenting character education programs in their schools.

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"The Perfect Storm : When Character Education, Service Learning and Civic Engagement Collide" >>
(Word format)

"Youth as Evaluators -
Important to Service Learning and Character Education" >>
(Word format)

Research on Character Education in Pennsylvania -
by Robert Shumer, Ph.D.

• Year 4
  • Part 1 (Word format)
  • Part 2 (Word format)
  • Part 3 (Word format)
  • Part 4 (Word format)
• Year 3 (Word format)
• Year 2 (Word format)

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SFSS (Students for Safe Schools) Manual (pdf format) >>

Many schools and communities are recognizing that to develop schools of "character" they must have safe schools and communities. Federal Safe and Drug Free School legislation , Title IV, Part A authorizes funding for states to fund violence and drug prevention programs. Within the Safe and Drug Free program is the requirement that "LEAs (schools) that receive SDFSC funds to have a plan for keeping schools safe and drug-free that includes appropriate and effective discipline policies, security procedures, prevention activities, a student code of conduct, and a crisis management plan for responding to violent or traumatic incidents on school grounds." This SFSS manual can help schools respond to this requirement, with the help of their own students, who really know the issues of violence and drug use. The manual will help to ascertain what the needs of the community really are, before any programming begins. The manual clearly shows how this work can be integrated with academic courses and curriculums, so students are clearly learning as they improve their own communities. This work can clearly contribute to the character development of students.

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Character Education Links

The Character Education Partnership
http://www.character.org/

Champions of Caring
http://www.championsofcaring.org/

CETAC: U.S. Department of Education Character Education and Civic Engagement Technical Assistance Center
http://www.cetac.org/

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Let’s launch my highest kite, “The Art of Virtue”!
Follow the link, http://www.bbotw.com/description.asp?ISBN=0-7414-2980-2, for information on a new book, Benjamin Franklin’s Art of Virtue Journal. The author, Paula Benner, is available for an interactive book presentation featuring skits, props, posters, a Franklin rebus riddle, photographs of Franklin's 13 virtues, and more.  Find out about opportunities to chart your progress in self-improvement, sponsor a contest, award a certificate of achievement, and do experimental research.  If you are interested, please contact b.franklin_virtues@ verizon.net.