Pathways to Character

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Pathways to Character can be easily integrated into your classroom and school as a supplement to your existing curriculum and character education efforts.

Outcomes

With documented results, the Pathways to Character program proves that character education is more than just a nice idea.

About

Pathways to Character is a school-based character education program created to help children develop the basic traits of good character, while preparing them to achieve academic success.

About Pathways to Character

Pathways to Character is a school-based character education program created to help children develop the basic traits of good character while achieving academic success. Designed for grades Pre-K through 8, Pathways to Character helps students develop core ethical values through a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum.

The Traits

Pathways to Character focuses on nine character traits that are essential for children to learn to act responsibly and think critically.

  • Responsibility 
  • Respect 
  • Citizenship  
  • Open-mindedness 
  • Self-reliance 
  • Trustworthiness 
  • Fairness 
  • Honesty 
  • Caring 


Curriculum

This program was designed by teachers for teachers. And what would teachers recommend for teachers? Content area based lessons...Connection to higher learning standards with specific objectives...Easily integrated into academic subjects!

Each Pathways to Character Teacher Resource Guide includes:

  • An introduction to each trait
  • A family letter explaining what students will learn (also provided in Spanish)
  • Four lessons promoting each trait
  • A classroom bulletin board idea for each trait
  • A family activity for each trait (also provided in Spanish)


Parent Involvement

This curriculum can be complemented by our parenting programs as an important parent involvement component, recognizing that when there's an involved parent at home, opportunity for success in the classroom improves.


EPIC & Bullying

Pathways to Character is an ideal program for preventing behaviors associated with bullying.  Our curriculum reinforces positive character traits which are directly linked to the prevention of bullying.  About half of the lesson plans in each of our grade level Teacher Resource Guides relate to bullying, and we provide an index for each grade level that references those specific lesson plans.  We also provide a focused training for teachers and school personnel which includes how to create an anti-bullying climate in the school.

In addition to our Pathways to Character program, we offer age-specific parenting education programming for parents around topics of bullying and prevention. 

Parenting Young Children Workshops - 4 session series

  • Listening and Responding to Children
  • Developing Respect and Caring in Young Children
  • Guiding your Child's Behavior: Positive Discipline
  • Character, Conscience, and Values

Parenting Young Adolescents Workshops - 4 session series

  • Peer Groups and Friendships
  • Right versus Wrong: Character Development
  • Communication Problems and Strategies
  • Who Am I?  Identity and Independence