In the Field

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The Carter Center	The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.	View web site

The Center for Peaceable Schools	Provides training, resources, and information to educators and community workers interested in learning principles and practices that create positive change in schools and communities.	View web site

Character Education Partnership	A nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation's youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society.	View web site

Child Development Project	A multi-year school improvement design that fosters students' decoding skills, reading comprehension skills, and caring, respectful connections among students, educators, and parents. The integration of academic, social, emotional, and ethical development gives schools a schoolwide support system to reach their goals. Part of Development Studies Center.	View web site

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning	A partnership between researchers, program developers, and educators working to establish social and emotional learning as an essential part of education from preschool through high school.	View web site

Community of Caring	Through training for teachers, values discussions, student forums, parent involvement and service learning, Community of Caring addresses destructive attitudes that lead to early sexual involvement, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, delinquent behavior, and dropping out of school.	View web site

Educators for Social Responsibility	A national nonprofit organization that helps educators create safe, caring, respectful, and productive learning environments. Its work spans the fields of social and emotional learning, character education, conflict resolution, diversity education, civic engagement, prevention programming, youth development, and secondary school improvement.	View web site

Facing History and Ourselves	Facing History and Ourselves is a national educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.	View web site

First Amendment Schools	First Amendment Schools is a national initiative designed to transform how schools model and teach the rights and responsibilities of citizenship that frame civic life in our democracy.	View web site

The Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Education Program	The Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Program offers classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings on how to integrate the practice of mindfulness — moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness — toward meeting the joys and challenges of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting.	View web site

PATHS	The PATHS (Providing Alternative THinking Strategies) curriculum is a program for educators and counselors designed to facilitate the development of self-control, emotional awareness, and interpersonal problem-solving skills.	View web site

Resolving Conflict Creatively Program	The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program is a well-evaluated, K-8 program in character education and social and emotional learning. It is the nation's largest and longest running school program with a special focus on conflict resolution and intergroup relations.	View web site

Responsive Classroom	The Responsive Classroom approach to teaching and learning fosters safe, challenging, and joyful classrooms and schools, kindergarten through eighth grade. Developed by classroom teachers, this approach consists of practical strategies for bringing together social and academic learning throughout the school day.	View web site

Science & Spirit Magazine	Science & Spirit Magazine, published six times each year, explores the relationship between science and religion in the context of our everyday lives.	View web site

Science & Theology News	The monthly international newspaper reporting the latest research findings, funding opportunities and discussions on the relationships among science, religion and health.	View web site

Seattle Social Development Project	SSDP began in 1981 to test strategies for reducing childhood risk factors for school failure, drug abuse, and delinquency. First graders in five Seattle schools were assigned to intervention or control classrooms. Each year through the elementary grades parents and teachers in intervention classrooms learned how to actively engage children in learning, strengthen bonding to family and school, and encourage children's positive behaviors.	View web site

Shanti	Shanti at the forefront of a growing national movement to enhance the quality of life for persons living with life-threatening or chronic illnesses by providing volunteer-based emotional and practical support.	View web site

Teaching Tolerance	Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance supports the efforts of K-12 teachers and other educators to promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity. Teaching Tolerance serves as a clearinghouse of information about anti-bias programs and activities being implemented in schools across the country.	View web site

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