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Become A More Positive Person: Three Practical Skills To Improve Your Self Esteem

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Become A Tough And Tender Listener:  A User’s Guide TO Rewarding Communication

This book is written by a former teacher on her approach to listening and using it as a teaching tool.

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Building Character & Community in the Classroom, Grades K-3

This book offers creative activities to build a sense of community among your students through the development of positive character traits.

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Building Character & Community in the Classroom, Grades 4 – 6

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This authors of this book provide a blueprint for educators who wish to translate a personal commitment to character education into a school-wide vision and effort.  They outline the principles and strategies of effective character education and explain what schools must do to teach students the habits and dispositions that lead to responsible adulthood.

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Character Education Connections for School, Home and Community:  A Guide for Integrating Character Education  – Grades Pre-K through 12

Diane Stirling with Georgia Archibald, Linda McKay & Shelley Berg

Cooperating School Districts of St. Louis

A collection of field-generated, field-tested ideas for integrating character education into daily learning.

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Character Education Workbook For Schools Boards, Administrators & Community Leaders

This book describes what was learned from the process when Wake County public school system in Raleigh, NC completed the third year of a comprehensive character education program.  The authors offer readers suggestions to further their own efforts in the character development of students.

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Drawing on his vast teaching, coaching, and administrative experience, the author illustrates how we can bring out the unique potential of each student.  While advocating a rigorous curriculum that stresses parental involvement and family issues, Character First conveys the key concepts and wisdom gleaned from three decades of extraordinary effort, innovations, and ultimately, success.

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This guide provides coaches with a valuable tool to help them understand the basic principles of sportsmanship.

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This guide describes ten basic skill lessons
that teach students active listening, perspective taking,
negotiation, and mediation.  Based on the unique needs
of middle school students – and their teachers, the activities are cooperatively structured and presented for three levels (grades six, seven and eight).  Through discussion, role plays, and journal writing, students broaden their definition of conflict, discover how conflicts escalate, explore connections between diversity and conflict, and learn how to de-escalate conflicts.

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Developing A Character Education Program:  One School
District’s Experience

The author address the nuts-and-bolts questions most on the minds of school practitioners:  How to get character education started?  How to get consensus about the core values?  How to get all the relevant constituencies on board and keep everyone informed?  How to keep controversies about matters such as outcome-based education from sabotaging the character effort?

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Developing Character in Students

This book provides valuable information to educators, parents and youth professionals who struggle to help our children and youth develop personal, family and community responsibility.

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Wayne Jacobsen

This book describes how to disarm conflict through common ground thinking and how to use it in the educational setting.

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Educating for Character:  How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

The author reports on dozens of practical, successful programs that are teaching the values necessary for our
children’s moral development and a decent, humane society.  His twelve-point program offers practical strategies designed to create a working coalition of parents, teachers, and communities-anyone who cares about the character of young people today.

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How Rude!  The Teenager’s Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out

How Rude! Is a veritable encyclopedia of etiquette.
It’s an all-encompassing how-to guide to the manners you need to know.
It’s a comprehensive compendium of common-sense advice on issues that matter to you.

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Life’s Greatest Lessons or 20 Things I Want My Kids to Know

The author wrote this book for four reasons:  because we’re never too young or too old to learn
life’s greatest lessons; because they don’t teach “how life works” or
“what is essential” in school; because most of us need help in discovering how good we can be; and because old-fashioned truth never goes out of style…even with a new generation. This book is a comprehensive philosophy of life for all ages.

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Mega Skills:  How Families Can Help Children Succeed In School and Beyond

This book is on educational reform and will directly affect the life of your child.  It tells what you can do now in your own home to help your child become more self-disciplined, more excited about learning, and more able to learn.

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Name Calling, Racial Joking, and Prejudice Among Students

In this fastback book, the author uses student anecdotes collected from freshman and sophomore college classrooms in two states to look at the circumstances of name calling and racial joking and the motivations of those who do so.  He discusses how, when and why name calling and racial joking occur; how name calling and racial joking affect minorities; and sociological perspectives of name calling and racial joking.  He concludes by including specific recommendations on how to reduce this behavior.

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Promising Practices in Character Education:  Nine Success Stories from Around the Country

This book contains nine character education success stories of school communities who are addressing the national problems of our young students involved in drugs and the selling of these drugs, pregnancies, murder and kids of all ages lying, cheating and stealing at record numbers.

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Replication Handbook for School and Community Decision Makers:  Strategies for Developing and Implementing a Character Education Program

The CHARACTERplus^TM Replication Handbook for School and Community Decision Makers is designed as a practical guide for school and community decision makers interested in implementing a character education program based on the 10 essential elements of the CHARACTERplus^TM program. The Handbook describes each program element and provides helpful hints, sample forms, and other resources for getting the program off the ground, maintaining high-quality instructional activities, and sustaining the program over the long haul.

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Serving to Learn, Learning to Serve:  Civics and Service From A to Z

Part of the fundamental work of educators is forging links between the students and the community in which they live. The author shows you how to steer your students toward lives as participating, caring citizens of their community and their society.

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Show-Me Character is a program that teaches young people to make sound moral judgments.  This Show-Me Character Idea
Book is filled with a variety of activities compiled by University Outreach and Development faculty from across the state as well as educators who have participated in character development programs.

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The Art of Friendly Confrontation:  Conflict Resolution To Improve Self Esteem

This book is about conflict and the use of conflict resolution to improve self esteem in your students.

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The Art of Loving Well:  A Character Education Curriculum for
Today’s Teenagers

The Loving Well Project, School of Education, Boston University

The Art of Loving Well is an anthology containing forty-one readings, selected from time-honored classics as well as some of the best contemporary adolescent literature.

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The Power of Social Skills in Character Development:  Helping Diverse Learners Succeed

Jennifer L. Scully

This book gives you the guidance and tools you need to put your students on the path of being mature, socially responsible adults.  The 80 lesson plans and reproducible activity handouts are classroom-tested for effectiveness

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The Road To Virtue:  Resolutions For Daily Living

Michael L. Loren, M.D

Avon Books

Modeled on a program Ben Franklin designed for his own self-improvement, this book offers you a step-by-step plan for rediscovering thirteen fundamental American virtues such as Sincerity, Order, Industry and Justice.

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Teaching Character:  Teacher’s Idea Book

Anne C. Dotson & Karen D. Wisont

This idea book has been compiled to help you educate your students both in mind and in character.  The lessons are designed to be taught in just a few minutes per day and in any discipline.  The ideas presented in this book are intended to function as a springboard for your own creativity.

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Wall of Fame:  One Teacher, One Class, and the Power To Save Schools and Transform Lives

Jonathan Freedman

This book is about Mary Catherine Swanson, Founder and Director of AVID.  She is the first public school teacher to ever receive a prestigious Dana Foundation Award for Pioneering Achievement in Education.  This book covers the work Mrs. Swanson has done to revolutionize education.  It tells of the stand she took in the 1980s to challenge minority students with academic rigor and support to prevent the policies of putting these students into remedial classes.  It relates her struggles and successes.

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Zapp! In Education

William C. Byham, Ph. D.

This book is about how empowerment can improve the quality of instruction, and student and teacher satisfaction.  Empowerment in education means getting students to take responsibility for their own progress by involving them in decision making; encouraging them to think for themselves; and fostering trust, creativity, and a hunger for new challenges.

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Build the Fort….Today!

Jim Kern

This book has four sections:

Part 1, Underlying Beliefs, covers the following topics:

•  Human Beings are Priceless and Precious
•  Children are Human Beings, too
•  We are All Different
•  We can Change All Through Our Lives
•  How We Feel Is Important

Part 2, Basic Needs of People, covers the following topics:

• The Need for Affection
•  The Need for Physiological Satisfaction
•  The Need for Identity
•  The Need for Safety

Part 3, Pathways to Pain, covers the following topics:

• Pain Through Loss
• Pain Through Choice
• Pain Through Failure
• Pain Through Unequal Relationships

Part 4, Pathways to Joy, covers the following topics:

• Take Charge of Your Life
• Know Your Own Worth
• Practice Self Regulation
• Learn to Give and Receive

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WiseQuotes – Skills for Building Positive Character

WiseSkills Resource

This innovative resource provides practical tools for promoting comprehensive character education in the primary grades.

• Ready to Go: Hundreds of stimulating projects, discussion ideas, group activities, learning pages, journals and logs–all ready to go TODAY!  No lesson preparations needed for daily 10-15 minute activities.
• Interdisciplinary: Over 250 multicultural quotations, inspiring biographies, interdisciplinary projects, and a convenient Aurther Index makes WiseSkills easy to integrate into language arts and social studies.
• Violence Prevention: Conflict resolution materials teach students the 4 WISE Steps: Use
  Words & Ideas to Settle it or
  Explain it.  Engaging peer mediation resources equip students to be effective peer mediators.

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100 Ways To Build Self-Esteem

Diane Loomans with Julia Loomans

This book is full of techniques, exercises, games and other activities that quickly create obvious results.  It covers techniques such as  reframing, empathy, every etiquette, self-management, learning and study skills, dealing with anger, resolving conflicts, respecting other people and other cultures, and awakening the inherent spirituality within all children.

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• Caring and Empathy
• Character Questions
• Character Quotations
• Citizenship
• Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking
• Courage
• Fairness, Justice and Equality
• Honesty
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Loyalty
• Patience
• Perseverance
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Values and Morals

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•  All About Me
•  All About School
•  Caring and Cooperation
•  Cheating
•  Esteem Builders
• Feelings and Emotional Intelligence
•  Lying and Honesty
•  Manners
•  Multiple Intelligences
•  My Favorites
•  Positive Attitude
•  Respect and Responsibility
•  Safety
•  Stealing
•  Sticky Situations:  What Do I Do?
•  Values

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• Caring Attitudes and Skills
• The Significant Seven
•  Barriers and Builders
•  Introduction to Class Meetings

Program 2:    A Forum For Positive Discipline highlights:

• Introduction to Class Meetings
• The Eight Building Blocks for Class Meetings
• Six Reasons Why Class Meetings Fail
• Formats for Class Meetings

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