Harrisburg Character Education Grant
The Harrisburg City School District was awarded a grant from the Department of Education from July 2006 to July 2010. The project involves implementing two evidence-based character education programs in the district’s 7th and 8th grade classrooms. The first, Responsive Designs for Middle School (RDM), is a professional training program that helps teachers create a classroom environment that facilitates positive student-teacher relationships and cooperative learning. It offers teachers a range of classroom practices to promote safe, caring, and responsive centers of learning that enable students to identify with and form secure relationships with some of the important adults in their lives. The second, Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO), is a classroom-based character education curriculum that provides opportunities for students to study the past and make personal connections, challenge their assumptions and those of others, increase empathy, and practice informed and ethical decision making.
Project Team
- Celene Domitrovich
- Assistant Director\
- Prevention Research Center
- cxd130@psu.edu
- Jennifer Glenn
- Research Project Coordinator
- HCHCD