Character Counts
Then in October 2020, I found my saving grace. It was 8 students at SLOCA middle school. -Cara Wasden At SLOCA, character is at the core of what we do.
Category: Character
Teaching Through Literature: Stewardship
Summer break is a few weeks away and it is the perfect time to start gathering books for your family to read. Our character trait for the month of June
The Character Issue: Stewardship
We have made it to the last month of the 2020/2021 school year! And what a year it has been. This month’s character trait is Stewardship. Last year in the
Teaching Through Literature: Resilience & Resourcefulness
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ― Maya Angelou We have a character trait duo this month of Resilience
The Character Issue: Resilience & Resourcefulness
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin
Teaching Through Literature: Citizenship
Our Teaching Through Literature series is all about sharing quality books that have been carefully and intentionally selected to correlate with each month’s character trait. Citizenship is our character trait
The Character Issue: Citizenship
It is April and we have a new character trait — Citizenship. Back when I (Sharon) was in elementary school, I remember each month we would have an all-school assembly
Teaching Character Through Literature: Courage
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth
The Character Issue: Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. ― Franklin D. Roosevelt Last March when we introduced our character
The Humility of Socratic Discussion (Reprise)
If we have had the practice to ask again and again what the author meant, and the discipline and training to return to the text and say, “How do you
