Faculty Resources

Character Education

School faculty can always use extra resources to help them teach and enhance their character education. Good Character provides lesson plans, articles, useful tools, and links to additional resources to aid in the educating of character traits such as integrity, responsibility, and respect. They offer resources for elementary, middle school, and high school.

Ethical Decision Making

The Ethical Triangle is a method to help faculty when making ethical decisions. The method has three points, principle, consequences, and virtues. Jon VanDusen explains how the Ethical Triangle works to make ethical decisions in their video podcast using common scenarios of teachers.

Conflict Resolution

Faculty members handle conflicts daily. The link below provides various resources for teachers to use to help prevent or resolve conflicts in a respectful and responsible way. The site includes classroom activities, practices, and more. It also includes many additional resources that are useful for our faculty.

Support Staff

Character Education

Support staff are just as important with teaching and modeling character education. These resources will help staff identify, model, and teach character education at school. These resources will benefit with helping students have positive character traits such as perseverance and accountability.

Grand Canyon University (GCU) identifies and explains what character education is. It continues with describing the process of implementing and developing classroom character.

As with faculty resources, Good Character provides lesson plans, articles, useful tools, and links to additional resources to aid in character education. It also has resources divided by grade levels.

Ethical Decision Making

The Ethical Triangle is a method to help support staff make ethical decisions. Jon VanDusen explains how the military model called the Ethical Triangle works in making ethical decisions using common scenarios of teachers and staff. He describes how there are three points consisting of principle, consequences, and virtues and how to work through them.

Conflict Resolution

Support staff often are tasks to handle conflicts of students that need additional support, resources, and specific needs.

Parallel Learning provides explanations of different types of conflict, how to resolve them, and best practices specifically tailored to students in special education.

CR Education provides various resources for staff to use to help prevent or resolve conflicts. The site includes classroom activities, practices, and more. It also includes many additional resources that are useful for all our staff.

Students

Character Education

Students are the center of character education. As faculty and staff model and teach students about character traits students act upon it. Jessica Diaz explains and educates students through her short videos about character traits. The provided resource is a playlist of six videos that will help students with character education including time management.

Ethical Decision Making

Students have to make many decisions every day; this short video helps give you a process to make the best decision. These steps include, stopping before you act, thinking of the consequences, reflection, and asking others for support or thoughts.

Conflict Resolution

Students not only have to make ethical decisions they also must resolve conflicts big and small every day. This short three-minute video gives students three strategies to use to solve conflicts. These strategies can be used at school, at home, or anywhere conflict arises.

Parents and Guardians

Character Education

Our school uses the RULER approach when we are educating our students for social emotional learning and character education. It includes character traits such as empathy and accountability to build virtuous students. The resource provided allows parents and guardians to know what that approach is, how it works, and provides evidence of its effect on students and schools.

Additionally, parents and guardians may not know how to model or educate their children on positive character traits. Harvard's Making Caring Common Project is backed by research to help create ethical children with respect, integrity and other character traits. The resource provided is a pdf that gives insights on the importance of, practicing, and educating children to be ethical.

Ethical Decision Making

Families often have difficulty educating and modeling how they make everyday decisions due to it at times seeming automatic. Kong Academy provides 17 decision-making skills that range from building independence to increasing confidence to ethical decisions that thinks about the impacts of choices. The resource provides examples of when and how to teach these decision-making skills.

Conflict Resolution

Parents and guardians have helped their children with conflict resolution. These resources give simple steps and ideas with helping children resolve conflicts. These conflicts can range from smaller indecisive conflicts to larger conflicts with friends and family.

Kong Academy provides a simple three step process for resolving conflicts with another person. These steps are explained in detail on how to perform them and what the outcome should be.

Additionally, the Wholehearted School Counseling resource provides 12 essential conflict resolution skills. These skills help small and large conflicts; it describes the benefits of good conflict resolution skills for children. It then describes 12 skills that will enable positive conflict resolution.

External School Partners

Character Education

At our school we use the RULER approach when we are educating our students for social emotional learning and character education. The resource provided allows all stakeholders to know what that approach is, how it works, and provides evidence of its effect on students and schools. This resource is also directly connected to ethical decision making and conflict resolution.

Ethical Decision Making

We have a vast demographic with not only it's students but also the entire school community. This resource goes through the ethical decision-making process from the American School Counselor Association. This framework shows 11 steps that are taking when facing ethical dilemmas. It also includes revision or better said reflection, that can restart the process again in a cyclic fashion.

Conflict Resolution

Our school uses restorative justice practices as a way for conflict resolution. Through the We Are Teachers article, they explain what restorative justice is, best practices, and its tiers. It digs deeper into racial justice and the pros and cons of using restorative justice as a conflict resolution tool.