In honor of DETERMINATION (deciding it’s worth it to finish what you started) and the animal of the month, McCall Elementary School students are practicing what they’ve learned about the value this month by trying to adopt 6 penguins at the Ft. Worth Zoo. The students have already adopted 4 and have almost made our goal in money donations to adopt 2...

Sometimes a two minute song sums it all up – especially with the help of Sesame Street. Discovering who you are meant to be so you can make a difference. We hope you’ll share this fun song just like our friends at Bermudian Springs Elementary School in Pennsylvania shared with...

Chronicles of a FIRST YEAR Core Essentials School: Follow their journey as they take an already invested group of educators and equip them with the common language and Core Essential tools to change the values culture! This post is written by Krystal Parker, a 5th grade teacher at LHE. As this school year started I was very excited to be part of implementing Core...

Carol Hahn is the principal of West Friendship Elementary in West Friendship, Maryland. Her love of literature combined with her passion about the values that Core Essentials teaches has given her the platform to be a featured guest blogger here and allows us to brag on how she and so many are making values visible! Take it away Carol… From the time we are...

Making the Values VISIBLE and something to GROW on An Anchor Chart Worth Sharing Anchor Charts are great ways to engage students in a topic, using their help to create the poster and then referring to it as situations arise in the classroom. It can be a simple tool that turns big concepts into concrete chunks that may be easier for kids to remember. Consider the...

“Fall” in LOVE with Families this season… Using the Family Resources As an educator, parents and families have always been a part of my job. But that was just it – they were a part – and existed in the “box” that I placed them in. Just weeks ago I took my first born to her first day of preschool. I’d checked all the...