How Do You Choose?

Everyone's character education budget is tight. Before you make a decision to purchase character education materials, or engage a program provider, presenter, consultant or evaluator, you owe it to your school or district to thoroughly research and evaluate your potential choices.

Two resources to help you are:

Program Review Checklist
Character Education Partnership

The checklist, created by the Character Education Partnership provides solid criteria in the form of a rating scale to help you better differentiate character education materials and programs and make sure the one you plan to choose meets your school's or district's needs.
Safe and Sound: an Educational Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
A publication of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Safe and Sound provides educators with objective information about nationally available programs for the classroom that promote social and emotional learning. It details the costs, the grades covered, which have a rigorous evidence base, which most effectively teach core social and emotional skills, and which provide high quality staff development and support.