A Social & Emotional Curriculum | The Character Effect™

What makes The Character Effect™ unique is that our curriculum begins with your teachers

The Challenge: Teachers love to teach. But all the stressful demands of an ever-changing world can seem overwhelming and can impact the classroom environment.

The Solution: The Character Effect™, a flexible, personalized social & emotional learning program that enhances the emotional IQ and improves the well-being of teachers and students alike.

Why will it work? The Character Effect™ is an evidenced-based, flexible social & emotional learning program, grounded in positive psychology and the science of mindfulness. The K-12 program is unique, beginning first with teachers seeing their own character strengths and learning about mindfulness. Flexible program offerings are available; from a comprehensive engaging online curriculum to individual coaching sessions for teachers, depending on your school’s needs. The Character Effect™ rallies all the adults in a student’s life around their strengths by introducing a positive shared language that can be used at school and reinforced at home. 90% of teachers experiencing The Character Effect™ report feeling better equipped to manage student behavior. Teachers and students develop skills everyone needs to rise to the challenges of our ever-changing world.

Testimonials

"I noticed my son using mindful breathing techniques that neither my husband nor I had taught him. To see this application of self-regulation, away from school, was inspiring.” On the family event…“Not only did the event bring my family together in a unique way, but it introduced me to The Character Effect™ curriculum, awakening my understanding of its impact on my child." - Parent, Sands Montessori

"Making an intentional effort to focus on children’s strengths has had a positive impact on our school. In addition to better results in academics and behavior, our students have a general sense of happiness and the entire school is more relaxed. It has given us a positive way to look at our weeks, which have rolled into positive months and a positive year." - Assistant Superintendent, CCPA

"My experience with The Character Effect™ has been very positive. I think it helps to be mindful of strengths when working with students because it can be easy to become fixated on areas of growth a student needs, but it’s much easier to reach them if we are focused on their strengths." - Elementary School Teacher

Start with Teachers and Staff

18 hours of professional development at Miles Elementary School

142 coaching sessions with teachers & staff

4 family events

Improvements seen on MAP scores

Case Study

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Impact

The Character Effect™ teachers, parents and administration share their successes and future outlook.

The Character Effect™ begins with teachers, focusing on mindfulness and building on their strengths. Nearly half of teachers report high daily stress, perhaps impacting their students’ ability to reach their academic potential and successfully navigate their social environments.

Teachers

Unlike many social & emotional curriculums, parents & caregivers are a key audience for The Character Effect™ with family engagement opportunities being an integral part of the program.

Parents

What if there was a universal, social & emotional curriculum that rallies all the adults in a student’s life around their strengths?

What makes The Character Effect™ unique is that our curriculum begins with your teachers

Testimonials

Start with Teachers and Staff

Impact