Live Wire Media
Good Character: Being Responsible
How can you be a responsible person? Discuss this question with friends, classmates, and your parents with the help of useful questions and writing prompt at this website. Includes "Educational goals" and tips on "How to be a responsible...
Character Lab
Character Lab: Emotional Intelligence: A Beginner's Guide to Feelings
How are you feeling today? Recognizing your emotions is critical to emotional development. Emotional intelligence can be learned, practiced, and improved. This blog offers tips for educators and parents on modeling and teaching emotional...
Character Lab
Character Lab: Lost in Translation: The Art and Science of Communication
Communication isn't just the transmission of information. It's also sending and receiving emotions. This article discusses why human interaction cannot be left solely to a keyboard.
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Character Lab: The Power of Proactivity: You Are Someone
Taking action is what turns well-meaning bystanders into inspiring heroes. Here are four questions about the character strength of proactivity for you and the young people in your lives to reflect on-how many are true today?
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Preventing Conflicts & Violence
Learn how conflicts arise, how to prevent conflicts, and how emotions and attitudes affect conflicts. Also, learn how to speak out against violence with the help of the discussion questions, activity ideas, and writing prompts provided...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Disappointment
Children learn ways of dealing with feelings after being disappointed through simple exercises and tips, as well as questions for discussion and writing prompts. Includes ideas for home assignments and notes for parents.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Asking for Help
If you need help, don't be afraid to ask! This website, in addition to providing tips to help you ask peers and adults for help, include discussion questions and activities through which students discuss what it means to need and get...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tea Mology: Meet the Team
TEAMology's mission is to understand and improve emotional health to enhance every child's ability to succeed in school, career, and life. Meet the team of TEAMology with their character introduction videos along with a printable PDF...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Other Bad Cases to Write About
After reading A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon the writer will plan an original story where an unusual affliction affects a character and is eventually solved. The students will use strong and memorable details as they convey their...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Make 'Em Laugh or Cry Or
After sharing chapter 19 of Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls as an example of emotion-evoking writing, the students will write their own detailed and emotional paragraphs. Students can draw from background knowledge of a real...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Argument, Bias, and Persuasion
Collection of 43 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12)on the topic Argument, Bias, and Persuasion. Have students track arguments through texts as they examine logical reasoning, bias, and persuasive techniques such as emotional appeals, character...
Character Lab
Character Lab: Knowing What You Don't Know: How to Impress an Audience
"I don't know.". These words can be terrifying to say, however they are a sign of strength. This article explains intellectual humility and why it is important to practice.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Imagine That: How Reading a Book Can Make You a Better Person
This blog explains how reading and empathy are related.
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Character Lab: Great Expectations: Ask for What You Want
This author cites an example from her own life that proves why communicating exactly what you want is so important in all aspects of life.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Bragging Backfires: The Hidden Costs of Self Promotion
Take a pause and think the next time you are tempted to brag. Research shows that unfortunately, we fail to accurately assess the cost of self-promotion. This blog discusses the pitfalls of bragging.
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Character Lab: Social Intelligence
This article discusses the importance of social intelligence and how to encourage it in others.
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Character Lab: Think It, Do It: Developing an Implementation Mindset
Think it, do it. This is the mantra of David Fajgenbaum who almost died of an immune disorder. This blog explains why the comma in his mantra is so important, and how it can help us act upon decisions.
Character Lab
Character Lab: The Secret: Permission to Feel
Don't assume that the young people in your life are fine. Don't assume that what you see is all there is to know. This blog describes an encounter that a young boy had that helped him feel "seen" and understood by adults. Listening is...
Character Lab
Character Lab: The Soul of Empathy: Getting, Not Taking, Perspective
We have all learned how to imagine how someone else is feeling - empathy. However, maybe there is a better way to "walk in someone else's shoes". This blog explains why we shouldn't guess how people are doing and just simply ask.
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Character Lab: Social Blind Spots: Feedback to Develop Social Intelligence
How do we know when we are being rude? Research shows we can be quite blind to our social blunders. Read about why social intelligence is in the eye of the beholder.
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Character Lab: Naive Realism: Even the Left Think They're Right
Whether we lean left or right, it's common to think we see the world accurately but our opponents don't. It's easy to confuse opinion with fact. This article discusses how to cultivate intellectual humility - recognizing the limitations...
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Character Lab: Making Kindness Common: How to Raise Kind Kids
Kindness is contagious and kindness spreads. If we want our kids to be kind, not only should we model kindness ourselves, we should go out of our way to expose them to examples within their own age group. Read an example in this blog.
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Character Lab: Proactivity
This article discusses the importance of proactivity and three ways to foster it in children.
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Character Lab: Purpose
This article discusses the importance of having a sense of purpose and ways to foster it in young people.