Signature Practices

Lesson Plan: Character Report Card
The character report card is a shared experience between students and teachers. The activity allows students to identify character traits in others, both fictional and real. The report card encourages reflection through discussion and reasoning for a deeper, more personalized meaning and understanding of the core values. After several uses in the classroom, students begin to analyze characters as they read for their own enjoyment before they are given the character report card.
Promising Practice: "Flashlight Reading" Buddy Day Activity
Monthly buddy-day activities incorporate service components.
Promising Practice: Student-Created Expectation Videos
A school uses videos and other media to teach school-wide expectations.
Promising Practice: Give Me Five
Counselors encourage every student to participate in "Give Me Five," a service-learning project, and reflect on the impact of their work. Children learn the value of helping others and ways that they can take care of each other, our community and our world.
Promising Practice: Character Report Card
The Character Report Card is a tool students at any grade level can use to analyze and reflect upon the character of a person in their literature, historical studies, research, presentations, current events or even among their peers.