{"product_id":"9798895570302-character-compass","title":"Character Compass","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour Directions for Building Powerful School Culture and Student Success\u003cbr\u003eUrban Boston schools showcase diverse commitments to character development, with each institution nurturing moral, performance, civic or intellectual character. Insights from students, educators and leaders illustrate how tailored approaches shape vibrant school cultures and profoundly impact life trajectories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe popular volume on the power of character development in the classroom now features new chapters on intellectual risk-taking and open-mindedness, plus student, teacher, and school leader reflections on the value of the practice \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharacter Compass, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e returns to three, high-performing urban schools in Boston to reassess their distinct commitments to character education. Classical Academy prizes moral character, College Bound Middle School emphasizes performance character, and Civitas Prep prioritizes civic character. To this group, Scott Seider, Shelby Clark, and Madora Soutter add Bright Ideas Middle School, which champions intellectual character. They describe the ways in which these four school's distinctive character goals lead them to emphasize different programming and practices and to nurture different dimensions of their students' characters. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Seider, Clark, and Soutter reconnect with the students that were interviewed more than a decade ago to ask how character education influenced their trajectories, and they invite the volume's original school leaders to share how their thinking has and has not changed. Their research reaffirms the foundational strength of character education in building a powerful school culture where students can thrive, and a new case-study on a school emphasizing intellectual character broadens the framework's reach. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With its rare longitudinal and retrospective perspective, \u003ci\u003eCharacter Compass, Second Edition \u003c\/i\u003eprovides K-2 educators and school leaders with powerful guidance for making character development central to their mission of supporting student success. Updates also help practitioners hone their chosen approach to best complement their own unique institutional commitments, community, and context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56700108177782,"sku":"9798895570302","price":35.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38863276.jpg?v=1764391682","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9798895570302-character-compass","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}