Character Education Resources and Articles
Character Education Resources and Articles
Two of our LACCS schools were recently featured in Wisconsin School News. Read about their journeys to becoming State and National School of Character. Read the article.
WCEP - Wisconsin Character Education Partnership promotes the intentional proactive effort by educators to instill in all Wisconsin’s students, core universal ethical values such as integrity, honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect for themselves and for others through character education. WCEP partners with Alverno College to support professional development for teachers in its unique year-long cohort, LACCS.
Character.org - Character.org is an organization of passionate people advocating for integrity, honesty, respect, and other core ethical values to be fused into education for the betterment of our nation. Character.org has created comprehensive tools for educators including a free resource, the 11 Principles of Effective Character Education. "These guidelines can help improve your school climate and develop students of strong character - inspiring them to do well and do good."
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Resources for SEL - The SEL portal of the DPI website contains conferences, workshops, webinars and other great resources.
Excellence with Integrity - "The Institute for Excellence & Ethics (IEE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building intentional cultures and essential competencies of Excellence with Integrity." This site provides research-based learning resources for athletics, education and career readiness.
Useful Character Education Articles
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources
ASCD - Free SEL Resources - ASCD has gathered some useful resources from our archives and recent releases to help you understand the importance of social-emotional learning and how to build your students’ skills.
Mindshift/KQED Blog - Mindshift is an educational blog that has a wealth of useful articles for teachers on social emotional topics and best practices for teachers.
CASEL - Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a leading resource for evidence-based SEL guidelines, competencies, research, practice and policies.
Mindfulness Resources
Growing Minds - Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Growing Minds seeks to provide "mindful awareness skills to create kinder learning environments and more caring school communities."
Trauma Informed Care Resources/Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Resources
Wellpoint Care Network - Wellpoint Care Network (formerly Saint A) is in the forefront of therapeutic practices called trauma informed care that apply what neuroscience has taught us about how the brain develops, functions and recovers from trauma to help children overcome adverse experiences and thrive.
Diversity, Equity and Social Justice Resources
Teaching Tolerance - Teaching Tolerance provides curriculum, webinars, professional development, research and articles on school climate and culture, diversity, equity and inclusion.
International Institute for Restorative Practices, IIRP - The International Institute for Restorative Practices is dedicated to the advanced education of professionals at the graduate level and to the conduct of research that can develop the growing field of restorative practices, with the goal of positively influencing human behavior and strengthening civil society throughout the world.
NewRoot - NewRoot's (formerly Umoja) Restorative Justice (RJ) model creates the conditions for both students and adults to successfully reach their academic goals by restoring conflicts and reducing disciplinary infractions. Through RJ, students learn critical social, emotional, and behavioral skills and teachers are better positioned to deliver high-quality instruction.
Character Apps
Other Character Education Professional Development, Workshops and Consulting Opportunities
- Continuing education for faculty meetings, half-day and day-long workshops
- Classes for parents (PTA meetings, or ongoing parent meetings at a school site)
- Facilitation of book clubs for faculty, staff and parents
- Coaching for school teams regarding CE implementation within a school site
- Ongoing consulting for LACE and LACCS alumni
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