How a No Swearing Campaign ended up being a sweet deal.
Maintaining a swear-free school after students take the pledge.
Establish, manage, and keep your school's Dare Not to Swear campaign running!
Three educators honor and show respect for their students.
How do we teach students to treat others with fairness? Here's how three educators put this behavior into action.
How students felt about their school and their classmates before and after the campaign started.
Use the following lessons, resources, and activities for all grade levels to practice good manners, investigate temporal and cultural differences, and test students’ knowledge.
These six attributes of character are the six pillars of the Character Counts youth-ethics initiative.
Teaching students to act in caring ways - being kind, compassionate, expressing gratitude, forgiving others, and helping people in need.
Showing students you care about them helps create a positive relationship and a supportive learning environment.
Teacher has students talk it out and come up their own solutions.
A Wisconsin high school English teacher prepares students for using language beyond graduation.
An elementary school in Michigan has instituted a virtues program that uses in-class activities and school-wide assemblies to make talking about good behavior fun.
How a teacher inspired her students to give the largest donation ever made by a U.S. high school to help clear mine fields in southeastern Africa.
Researchers agree that there are three essential aspects of teaching social skills: modeling, direct instruction, and practice. Here are some examples of educators using these three methods.
How do we teach students to act responsibly? Here are two ideas that educators use with their students.
Patricia Dalton, clinical psychologist in private practice in Washington, examines the effects of over-parented, under-disciplined children in schools and society.
Five great ideas to teach students to act in ways that demonstrate respect.
An Oakland, California, educator shares insights and tools for managing verbal rudeness - from the mildly impolite to the dangerously insulting.
Developing confident, independent Kids though physical challenges and activity.
Poetry in P.E. class? How one coach uses prose to build sports skills, life skills, and character development
The class field trip that saved a local park, brought a community together, and taught valuable civics lessons to students and adults.
A veteran teacher describes how positive ways of communicating with students can be helpful in eliciting better behavior and manners from students.
Helping students understand abusive language and how to communicated to others with respect.
A Maryland high school teacher offers some stright talk about students swearing, name calling, and threatening.