Character, Leadership & SEL Solutions for Secondary Schools – Hudson, MA

FYI, this class is what I was born to teach, but I am normally the art teacher. My students love the class, they love it when I talk real life with them, and you’ll notice from my survey results that it is needed. I am so proud that our freshman are required to have this class to graduate and it has made them leaders for the next classes under them and for future generations to come. Thanks for passing on such a great curriculum for a guy like me to teach, it makes my day teaching life-long lessons, and makes my career worth it!

This curriculum is very engaging! Our students love it! We use it as a freshman only stand-alone course! The demographics of our district and community pose unique challenges to our students and teachers. Divorce, poverty, and fragmented families are the majority. Therefore at Fort Madison, we feel that the Character and Leadership curriculum is the foundation for future traditional academic growth. As the Head football coach, I reference this with our players on a daily basis!

Hi Joe… We have had a very enjoyable time teaching our classes this year… This experience has been one of the highlights of my career in education and I thank you for developing a curriculum that has helped us change the lives of some of our students.

I am committed to this course and your curriculum has been very useful, complete, and teacher friendly. Your visit and personalized books were very much appreciated. You made a positive impression on them for sure. I have been in education for over 30 years and I have never taught a course that has had the intrinsic relationships develop like the ones that occurred during this class. I have also never had anyone show the personal interest or caring towards the curriculum they developed like you have done. Thanks for all of the effort you made for the kids at A-P.

Our 1st semester students formed such a close bond over the first 18 weeks that we decided to continue on into the 2nd semester with a focus on taking what we learned into our community. It has been an amazing experience! Thanks for your curriculum and support.

My name is Billy Cottrill. I was using your Role Models curriculum at Beaufort high School’s Freshman Academy this year. We loved it. I am now the principal at a high school in West Virginia. We are about 90 miles west of Washington DC. We are starting a Freshman Academy and would love to use your curriculum. Thanks!

We have implemented this curriculum in phases at our High School and have seen a 25% reduction in referrals. We currently are utilizing the curriculum as a school wide approach 2-3 days per week and It has really helped in our climate, culture, and relationships between staff and students.

It’s wonderful to see students in an atmosphere that teaches them to think critically. Many students measure their success by being able to pass a test. This curriculum not only benefits students academically but it is a blueprint to help them to become better people. It is learning process for me as well as my students.

I’ve been an administrator for 12 years, and never experienced anything like this.It appears there was an altercation between two of our students that no one else witnessed. The next class period, one of the students self-reported himself to a teacher. They were both 9th graders and have been learning about the Character & Leadership traits in Global Perspectives. The student said he didn’t feel he was displaying good character if he didn’t turn himself in and he didn’t want that weighing on his mind. When I talked to him, he told me what he did, apologized, and created his own punishment. When I went to get the other student involved, I was basically met with the exact same thing. Before I had a chance to say anything to both students, they had apologized to each other, discussed how stupid their actions were, promised to never do anything like this again, and told me they understood they had to face consequences.The reason I share this with everyone, is because they both talked about how the Character & Leadership curriculum has made them really think about who they are and how important it is to have good character.

I am no longer teaching the class.  I have moved into administration at a local middle school.  Tyler is going to be taking over the leadership class at Broome.  I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching the course and have made many memories that will last a lifetime!  Former students still contact me telling me it was the best class they ever took that prepared them for “life”!Thank you again for all you have done and are doing to reach our young people!

From a Principal’s perspective, it has been an unbelievable start. The students love the class and the community loves it as well. We have been able to somewhat personalize it as well to our Lovejoy HS Graduate Profile and align our desired outcomes to the classes and vice versa. We have been thrilled to start setting a standard in character education here in Texas. Thanks for all your help, thus far, in getting us there. Please keep in touch and let us know how to improve, get additional training and take this to the next level.

The students are really taking a lot of the information from class and applying it to their daily lives. On almost a day-to-day basis I have students coming up to me bragging about thinking twice about something or not doing something that would go against their new character. It has made a huge impact on the seniors and, in addition, the school itself.

Things are going well with the character and leadership curriculum. It was taught to a group for a semester, and now the teacher is working through the first five or six chapters for the second time. We will continue the curriculum next year and the next. You?ve created a good product, Dr. Hoedel, and I wish you the best in your continued marketing of it.