Extend character education beyond the classroom with optional parental and community involvement components¶

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Description¶

The program supplements classroom lessons with optional family and community engagement materials. The report notes the program "also includes such optional community and parent al involvement components as parent newsletters and interactive family materials such as the 'Home Workout' and 'Home Pages.'" These take-home materials extend skill practice beyond school. Grade-level kits include parent materials alongside the scripted curriculum and student workbooks.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Parent materials such as the Home Workout and Home Pages must be distributed with grade-level kits for this component to operate.

Constraints¶

• The parental and community involvement elements are optional, not required parts of the program.

Target Learners¶

• elementary school students (K-5)
• middle school students (6-8)

Target Learning Goals¶

• character values
• healthy beliefs
• social-emotional skills

Affordances¶

• Too Good For Violence Curriculum

Related Strategies¶

• Family Engagement
• Offering Multiple Options for Family Engagement
• Structured and Sustained Family Engagement Programs

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). WWC Intervention Report: Too Good for Violence. U.S. Department of Education. https://www.mendezfoundation.org