Ages 6-16 · Book 4, Discernment · 4,299 places
Character Education
Choices and consequences taught through the two voices, which children accept far more readily than a values framework.
Built on Ellis Abel and the Two Wolves Within — “Choose what you feed within.” A character series, not a curriculum with a worldview attached.
The five sessions
- Session 1
Open with the story, not the lesson — the lesson lands after
- Session 2
Small groups: where does this show up in our room, specifically
- Session 3
The adult goes first, with a real example that cost them something
- Session 4
Each child writes the one step they take before next week
- Session 5
Follow up by name the following week and ask what happened
Questions leaders ask
Is character education in your area a religious program?
No. Ellis Abel is a character series. Each volume carries one named core value — this one is discernment — and the story does the teaching. There is no doctrine in it, nothing to opt out of, and it is used in public schools, libraries and secular programs as readily as anywhere else.
What ages does this work for?
Ages 6-16. The story is read aloud, so a child who cannot read yet is fully in it, and the discussion prompts are written in two bands so one adult can hold a mixed-age room.
How long does a session take in a your area classroom?
Twenty to thirty minutes, structured as read-aloud, small group, and one step each child names out loud before they leave the room.
Does this need a specialist to deliver?
No. It is written for the classroom teacher, the counselor, or whoever has the room that period. The leader script carries the questions and the follow-ups.
The rules that make it work
This takes no side on any platform
No app is named as good or bad. That is what makes it usable in a public school, and it is also what makes it still true in three years.
Teach the question, not the rule
Rules expire when the technology changes. "Who made this and what do they want from me" works on something that has not been invented yet.
The child writes the rule
A limit imposed from above is complied with until it can be evaded. A limit a child helped write is one they can explain to a friend.
Adults do the inventory too
A grown-up listing their own real day, honestly, in front of the children, is the moment the session stops being a telling-off.
Self-talk is an input
The harshest voice most children hear is their own, and it is on the list with everything else because it works the same way.
Nobody is shamed for their list
The first honest inventory is always ugly. A room that reacts to that is a room that will only ever see edited lists afterwards.
Character Education by metro area
Northeast
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Midwest
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South
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West
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