The “Better Angels of Our Nature” —Abraham Lincoln by Ed DeRoche, Director, Character Education Resource Center, Department of Learning & Teaching, School of Leadership & Education Sciences, University of San Diego Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and courage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how …
by Ed DeRoche, Director, Character Education Resource Center, University of San Diego I’m at Starbuck’s. Mask on. In line, six feet from the person in front and in back of me. All wearing masks. A young man enters—not wearing a mask. The lady in back of me requests that he put on a mask. His …
by David Adams, The Urban Assembly, September 29, 2020 Two hundred and forty-two years ago, a group of colonists came to conceive of a nation whose structures would allow for its citizens to govern themselves. This revolutionary ideal attempted to define an American social contract by which the power of governance and the resulting social fabric that flowed …
by Maurice J. Elias and Larry Leverett It is beyond dispute that unconscious bias and overt racism remain embedded in the U.S. education system. It is equally clear that healing must begin from within. Recent statements by millions of Americans, in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement and its message, demonstrate a nationwide shift …
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by Lauren Fullmer, Ed.D., Summit NJ Public Schools and Academy for SEL in Schools When students turn on the TV, they see increasing numbers of deaths and cases of people infected. Walking through the grocery store, they see empty shelves and desolate aisles. Their parents tell them that they can no longer attend basketball practice …
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by Ed DeRoche, Director, Character Education Resource Center, University of San Diego Background: Early in my teaching career, I was a junior high school social studies teacher. Part of my teaching assignment was teaching a “current events course.” The texts I used were the local and state newspapers. Our intent, at the time, was to …
by Ed DeRoche, Director, Character Education Resource Center University of San Diego In the Center’s July newsletter, we described 25 Steps on becoming a culturally response teacher. Several responses and questions helped me develop the content for this blog. A few respondents believed that “civility is on the decline “and one teacher wrote: …
by Ed DeRoche, Director, Character Education Resource Center, SOLES. USD “Habits we train are habits we gain!” (author unknown) In March, the Center sponsored a full day character education program offered by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. It was terrific—all you have to do is ask the 79 teachers who attended. During …
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by Susan Colacello Halloween is a fun time. We get to dress up as our favorite character, put on costumes and sometimes even wear masks. Sometimes those masks are meant to be scary, to make us look like a werewolf or monster. But, it’s not Halloween and there are lots of scary masks and costumes …
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ON MOTIVATION by Ed DeRoche,, Director, Character Education Resource Center, SOLES. USD As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move. – Katharine Hepburn As you read in my February blog, Kendall C. Bronk, an associate professor of developmental psychology at Claremont Graduate University in California, …
