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“The NED Show” at MLK Elementary (Youngstown, OH) points to habits of kindness
A recent character education presentation at Youngstown’s Martin Luther King Elementary is helping young students understand the benefits of being nice, and some are already grasping the snowball effect the lessons could have on the school’s culture.
Kentucky high schoolers renovate historic school for senior service project
Seniors at Newport High School are connecting with their community while fulfilling their service project graduation requirement by renovating the city’s historic Southgate School to prep for a new Newport History Museum.
Barbados teachers learn restorative practices to address student discipline
The island nation of Barbados may soon officially adopt restorative practices as part of its national education model, according to a Canadian social justice group works to train educators on the softer approach to student discipline.
Children helping the fight against leukemia
Students at St. Paul Catholic School are working to cure cancer while also building character through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program.
Angus McBeath, veteran superintendent on “Character formation as key to school and district academic results”
Character formation involves behaviors that students use both in the school and outside the school. In this way, students embody the highest goal of education: to become responsible people who are accountable to themselves and to others for their actions and behaviors.
Measuring social-emotional learning for ESSA: no takers
States submitting plans to the U.S. Department of Education to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act are opting not to measure social-emotional learning as part of school performance metrics.
Power in Partnership: How SEAs Impact School Culture
How SEAs help make policy meaningful
State lawmakers move to enshrine ‘In God We Trust’ in schools
Lawmakers in several states are moving legislation to enshrine the nation’s motto – “In God We Trust” – in schools and other public buildings to remind students about what’s most important.
Wednesdays and Refrigerator Walls: The Impact of Arts Education in a Culture of High-Stakes Assessment
Erin Sponaugle, West Virginia State Teacher of the Year 2014, shares the impact that Art had on her as a student and how she helps her students to find a passion for Art as a teacher.
KY students ‘choose kindness’ in the wake of tragic school shooting
Students at Kentucky’s Marshall County High School are sending a message: “We Choose Kindness.”
South Bronx students take responsibility for peer mediation
Community School for Social Justice founder Sue-Ann Rosch discussed how administrators at the South Bronx school help students take responsibility for their actions with peer mediation during an Education Leaders Roundtable at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture this spring.
Small interventions point to the power of school culture
Three recent studies in social psychology show evidence that small interventions that “concentrate on a single core belief” may have outsize influence. These point to the importance of crafting school culture.
