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Wriston, Blair; Duchesneau, Nancy – Education Trust, 2023
School discipline policies are broadly intended to foster a high-quality learning environment by maintaining safety in the classroom; however, far too often, schools adopt measures that harm a student's social, emotional, academic, and in some cases, physical health and well-being. To create physically safe and emotionally supportive environments…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education
Brackett, Marc A. – Educational Leadership, 2018
When a school weaves social-emotional learning throughout its curriculum and culture--both helping students tune in to emotions and teaching "emotional skills" for handling difficult feelings--students and teachers thrive. Brackett discusses ways to develop the emotional intelligence of everyone in the school and lists five key emotion…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Emotional Intelligence, Charter Schools
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Watson, Marilyn; Daly, Lana; Smith, Grinell; Rabin, Colette – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2019
This article contains four parts. It begins with a description of the Child Development Project, a research project aimed at discovering ways to integrate a focus on students' social and moral development in elementary schools. Then we describe the project's mixed results in helping teachers successfully apply its approach to classroom management,…
Descriptors: Student Development, Social Development, Moral Development, Elementary School Students
Denaro, Edward Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of elementary school physical education teachers towards teaching character education related to the variables respect, honesty, fairness and self-discipline and to examine their attitudes towards the character development of their fourth and/or fifth grade students related to the variables…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Behavior, Discipline, Females
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Curtis-Seinik, Cynthia; McCarthy, Margaret; Nadal, Kathleen; Pfeiffer, Deborah; Tella, Adeola; Wagner, Nancy – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2006
The Uniondale, New York School District and community believe that their character education program creates a safe and positive environment for their students. Through character education, they are increasing students' social competence and reducing students' aggressive behaviors. Their school district's goal is to build a district and school…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Interpersonal Competence, School Culture, School Districts
Miller, James – 1975
Pre- and post-tests were administered to three treatment (136 emotionally handicapped, 8 physically handicapped, and 79 trainable mentally retarded students) and two non-treatment groups (11 emotionally handicapped and 70 non-handicapped students) for purposes of assessing teacher, student, and program centered objectives. Administered or…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, Emotional Disturbances