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Character Compass

Posted: October 24th, 2012 | Author: | | 1 Comment »

If you teach or lead in a No Excuses school, you’ll enjoy Scott Seider’s new book. Scott examines the character-building curriculum at 3 excellent Boston charters — RoxPrep, BostonPrep, and Academy of the Pacific Rim. Each school has a different approach.

Podcast Guru Matt Weber just interviewed Scott about the book. So if you’re like my colleague Randall and consume a lot of podcasts, go here. If not, just go buy the book. It’s an easy read.

I’m supposed to write a review next month, to compare/contrast Scott’s book with Paul Tough’s, for Commonwealth Magazine. So any thoughts welcome.

One Comment on “Character Compass”

  1. 1: Joseph B said at 8:24 am on October 26th, 2012:

    I like this stuff. The podcast was a nice summary.
    It seems important. Maybe harder to trust ‘test results’ on integrity or perseverance, but they might be higher return than the next 5% on math.

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