ELEMENTARY / Character Education

This guide is full of activities and daily strategies designed to promote children's protective factors.

The Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA) is a 72-item, standardized,norm-referenced behavior rating scale that assesses the social-emotional competencies that serve as protective factors for children in kindergarten through the eighth grade. Standard scores can be used to calibrate each child?s competence in each of the eight dimensions and guide school/program-wide, classwide, and individual strategies to promote those competencies. Nationally normed on 2,500 children, the DESSA continues… More »

Birth - 6 years. This web-based assessment solution administers the DECA for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers online in English and Spanish. Completes all scoring and generates immediate access to reports, including individual ratings, rater comparisons, pre-post comparisons, parent letter, and group profiles.

Birth - 6 years. This web-based assessment solution administers the DECA for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers online in English and Spanish. Completes all scoring and generates immediate access to reports, including individual ratings, rater comparisons, pre-post comparisons, parent letter, and group profiles.

The e-DECA will require an annual license fee for e-DECA platform which is web-based computer version of the entire suite of Devereux' Center for Resilient Children Assessments, which includes access to the following ages 4 weeks - 8th grade.

Grades K - 8. This comprehensive kit contains the following resources to screen children's social-emotional competence and monitor progress across time: DESSA-Mini Record Forms: Four alternate 8-item forms. Each kit contains one pad of 25 copies of each form. Available in English and Spanish. Ongoing Progress Monitoring Forms: Used to track and evaluate progress over time, this form provides a visual display of each child's progress. Each kit contains one pad of 25 copies. DESSA-Mini Manual: This… More »

Pad of (25) 8-item form.

DESSA Mini Manual

This resource outlines a four-step, supportive strategy to transform challenging behavior by helping children learn about their feelings and gain self-control. Paperback. 88 pages.

Feeling Positive is based on the key findings from the field of Positive Psychology with songs of curiousity, kindness, and gratitude. The classification system of character strengths include 1) Strengths of wisdom and knowledge; 2) Strengths of courage; 3) Strengths of humanity; 4) Strengths of temperance; and 5) Strengths of transcendence. In this CD, strengths from each of these categories have developed into musical strategies for parents and teachers to encourage these character strengths at home and in the classroom.

The songs on this CD help children develop focused attention on experiences in the present moment and focused intention on positive self-talk and self-image. Developing mindfulness helps a child control their reactions to stress, develop concentration and memory and be ready to respond optimally to learning opportunities. A mindful child is aware, attentive, and happy.

Feeling Positive is based on the key findings from the field of Positive Psychology which has a lot to offer caregivers who want to optimize the development of their children. The song lyrics convey important messages from Positive Psychology and the rich music orchestrates experiences of "positivity" for parents, teachers, and children alike. The manual provides tips and activities that accompany the songs and enhance their message and skills. Lyrics, suggested movements, recommended… More »

Grades K - 1. A wonderful way to teach diversity and tolerance to young children with full-colored photos of children with different disabilities enjoying activities with their peers.

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5 years & up. Designed to help children identify, express, understand and respond to feelings and emotions using magnets. Create adorable dinosaurs with different expressions and represent a variety of emotions and feelings with over 120 magnets, two multilingual activity cards, and a sturdy magnetic easel box for play and storage.

5 years & up. Designed to help children identify, express, understand and respond to feelings and emotions using magnets. Create adorable pets, like dogs and cats, with different expressions and represent a variety of emotions and feelings with 100 magnets. Included: 100 Magnets, 2 Multilingual activity cards, and a Sturdy magnetic easel box for play and storage.

This resource offers early childhood professionals research-based strategies to enhance children's social and emotional health, as well as checklists and tips for improving the overall quality of programs.

This innovative program allows early childhood professionals and families to screen, assess, support, and evaluate outcomes in order to promote resilience and healthy social and emotional development in preschoolers. Kit includes: Preschool Record Forms (set of 40); User's Guide and Technical Manual; Strategy Guide; For Now and Forever Family Guides (set of 20); Building Your Bounce (2 copies); and FLIP IT!®

Grades K - 5. The qualities of good character are timeless and important in developing good citizens within our schools. This character education package includes units on charity, citizenship, deployment, honesty, kindness, self-esteem, and sharing. Each unit provides a month's worth of interactive lessons that incorporate language arts, mathematics, and creative arts. Lessons also integrate fiction and non-fiction children's books. Units encourage self-expression and are ideal for guidance time… More »

This guide provides early childhood professionals with the directions they need to use and interpret results of the DECA-P2. The manual also provides research information related to the development and standardization of the DECA-P2, including information about the instrument's reliability and validity.

Birth - 6 years. This web-based assessment solution administers the DECA for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers online in English and Spanish. Completes all scoring and generates immediate access to reports, including individual ratings, rater comparisons, pre-post comparisons, parent letter, and group profiles.

Grades K - 5. The qualities of good character are timeless and important in developing good citizens within our schools. Each unit provides a month's worth of interactive lessons that incorporate language arts, mathematics, and creative arts. Lessons also integrate fiction and non-fiction children's books. Units encourage self-expression and are ideal for guidance time or after school programs. Based on National Reading and National Mathematics standards. Includes 4 children's books.

Grades K - 5. The qualities of good character are timeless and important in developing good citizens within our schools. This character education package includes units on bullying, charity, citizenship, deployment, honesty, kindness, self-esteem, and sharing. Each unit provides a month's worth of interactive lessons that incorporate language arts, mathematics, and creative arts. Lessons also integrate fiction and non-fiction children's books. Units encourage self-expression and are ideal for guidance… More »

Grades K - 5. The qualities of good character are timeless and important in developing good citizens within our schools. Each unit provides a month's worth of interactive lessons that incorporate language arts, mathematics, and creative arts. Lessons also integrate fiction and non-fiction children's books. Units encourage self-expression and are ideal for guidance time or after school programs. Based on National Reading and National Mathematics standards. Includes 4 children's books.