Character Education Resources

 

List of Professional Readings

Beane, Allan.  (1999).  The Bully Free Classroom. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit.

Cooper, Scott.  (2000).  Sticks and Stones.  NY:  Three Rivers Press.

Conn, Kathleen.  (2004).  Bullying and Harassment.  Alexandria, VA:  ASCD.

Hall, Taylor, Kalven, and Rosen.  (1990).  Developing Human Values. Fond du Lac, WI:  

            International Values Institute of Marian College.

Lickona, Thomas.  (2004).  Character Matters.  NY:  Simon & Schuster.

Lickona, Thomas.  (1992).  Educating for Character.  NY:  Bantam Books.

North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction.  (2004).  Character Education Informational

            Handbook and Guide.  Raleigh, NC: NCDPI.

Manyak, Patrick.  (March 2007).  “Character Trait Vocabulary:  A School wide Approach.”

            The Reading Teacher. Newark, DE:  International Reading Association.

Simmons, Rachel.  (2002).  Odd Girl Out. NY:  Harcourt, Inc.

Wessler, Stephen L.  (2003).  The Respectful School.  Alexandria, VA:  ASCD.

Wiseman, Rosalind.  (2002).  Queen Bees & Wannabes.  NY:  Three Rives Press.

 

List of Website Resources

Bullying Among Girls:  www.kzoo.edu/psych/stop_bully/topics_of_interest/bullying

Bullying Prevention:  www.maine.gov/education/bullyingprevention/infrastructure.htm

Bullying Q & A:  www.antibullying.net/knowledge/questiononee.htm

Center for Effective Discipline:  www.stophitting.com

Character Education:  www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation

Character Education Partnership:  www.character.org/site

Child Stats:  http://childstats.gov

Committee for Children:  www.cfchildren.org

Cooperative Children’s Book Center:  www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books

Do Something:  www.dosomething.org

Educators for Social Responsibility:  www.esrnational.org/home.htm

Family Communications:  www.fci.org/index.asp?

Girls Bullying Girls:  www.teacherandfamilies.com/open/parent/ra2.cfm

Girls Heath: www.4girls.gov/bullying/index.htm

Good Character:  www.goodcharacter.com

Healthy Youth:  www.cde.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/index.htm

Kids Care Clubs:  www.kidscare.org/index.jsp

Learn and Serve America:  www.learnandserve.org

Learning to Give:  http://learningtogive.org

National Crime Prevention:  www.ncpc.org/topics/bias/index.php

National Youth Violence Prevention:  www.safeyouth.org/scripts/teens/bullying.asp

nIc Foundation:  www.nicfoundation.org

No Name Calling Week:  www.nonamecallingweek.org/cgi-bin/Iowa/all/resources/index.html

Office for Victims of Crime:  www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/welcovc/welcome.html

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program:  www.clemson.edu/Olweus

Parent’s Primer on School Bullying:  www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2001/10/bullying.html

Pioneer Thinking:  www.pioneerthinking.com/ara-meangirls.htm

Random Acts of Kindness:  www.actsofkindness.org

Stop Bullying Now:  www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/index.asp?area=main

Stop It Now:  www.stopitnow.com

Teaching for Tolerance:  www.tolerance.org/teach

Teasing and Bullying:  http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=1438

Students Against Violence Everywhere:  www.nationalsave.org/main/bully

Teaching for Tolerance:  www.tolerance.org/teach

Teen Victim Project:  www.ncvc.org/tvp/main.asp

Victims Rights:  www.trynova.org

Web MD:  www.webmd.com/parenting/news

When Girls are Bullies:  www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/24/earlyshow/living/

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