character education Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/character-education/ S.O. What! Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:37:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 character education Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/character-education/ 32 32 152051023 10 Ways to Use the Life After Birth book to Help Teen Moms https://summerowens.com/help-teen-moms/ https://summerowens.com/help-teen-moms/#respond Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:37:13 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23713 When I published my memoir, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, my number one goal was to help teen moms. I ultimately created a powerful, trauma-informed curriculum that promoted academic excellence and social and emotional development. Before I created the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/help-teen-moms/feed/ 0 23713 What Makes a Successful Character Education Curriculum https://summerowens.com/successfulcharactereducationcurriculum/ https://summerowens.com/successfulcharactereducationcurriculum/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:38:01 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=18856 I don’t think anyone sets out to do or create anything without the goal of success. And that’s why it was my mission to create a successful character education curriculum. I had completely exposed myself and felt completely vulnerable after publishing my memoir, but it was completely worth it once I learned just how much […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/successfulcharactereducationcurriculum/feed/ 0 18856 Six Pillars of Character Education https://summerowens.com/pillarsofcharactereducation/ https://summerowens.com/pillarsofcharactereducation/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:22:15 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=18845 In my post So What is Character Education, I began to explore character education. A group of experts and educators came together in 1992 to develop the six pillars of character education. These six pillars of education were designed to help students develop character through school activities. The interesting thing about the six pillars of […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/pillarsofcharactereducation/feed/ 0 18845 What are the 11 principles of character education? https://summerowens.com/principlesofcharactereducation-principles-of-character-education/ https://summerowens.com/principlesofcharactereducation-principles-of-character-education/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:10:26 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=18838 After digging deep into the pillars of character education, I spent time focusing on the principles of character education. That I wanted to include into the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education curriculum. Character.org (formerly the Character Education Partnership) developed the detailed framework called 11 Principles Framework for Schools: A Guide to Cultivating […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/principlesofcharactereducation-principles-of-character-education/feed/ 0 18838 SO What is Character Education? https://summerowens.com/sowhatischaractereducation/ https://summerowens.com/sowhatischaractereducation/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:35:40 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=18831 After focusing on literacy and life skills for the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education curriculum. I began research specifically on how character education. I knew that getting students to read and to read better was critical. And I also recognized how easily I could teach important life skills through my story, but […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/sowhatischaractereducation/feed/ 0 18831 So What are the Basic Life Skills https://summerowens.com/basiclifeskills/ https://summerowens.com/basiclifeskills/#respond Sat, 08 Aug 2020 22:56:46 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=18729 Basic life skills are a set of skills which help you prosper and advance in everyday life. You find that you will need different sets of like skills at different times in your life. There are 10 basic essential life skills. Because my book and the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Curriculum follow my […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/basiclifeskills/feed/ 0 18729 Reading and Real Life- The Journey to the Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education Curriculum https://summerowens.com/reading-and-real-life-the-journey-to-the-literacy-life-skills-and-character-education-curriculum/ https://summerowens.com/reading-and-real-life-the-journey-to-the-literacy-life-skills-and-character-education-curriculum/#respond Sun, 12 Jul 2020 01:23:02 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=18518 When I published my first book, Life After Birth- A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother I had no idea the impact it would have on students and adults. I was just telling my story. And I had no idea that people all over the world would be reading my story including […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/reading-and-real-life-the-journey-to-the-literacy-life-skills-and-character-education-curriculum/feed/ 0 18518 The Shelby County Schools Adolescent Parenting Program Celebrates Literacy Royally! https://summerowens.com/the-shelby-county-schools-adolescent-parenting-program-celebrates-literacy-royally/ https://summerowens.com/the-shelby-county-schools-adolescent-parenting-program-celebrates-literacy-royally/#respond Sat, 31 Oct 2015 17:46:41 +0000 https://summerowens.wordpress.com/?p=794 The very first school to adopt the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education curriculum was the Adolescent Parenting Program in Memphis, TN.  Yay!!! For the last few years, I’ve been a mentor at the school and implemented the original Life After Birth curriculum, and now we’re excited to take it to the next […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/the-shelby-county-schools-adolescent-parenting-program-celebrates-literacy-royally/feed/ 0 794 This is Big! You are Going to Want to Share This (I Certainly Hope So)! https://summerowens.com/this-is-big-you-are-going-to-want-to-share-this-i-certainly-hope-so-summer-owens-curriculum/ https://summerowens.com/this-is-big-you-are-going-to-want-to-share-this-i-certainly-hope-so-summer-owens-curriculum/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2015 02:53:53 +0000 https://summerowens.wordpress.com/?p=732 When I published my first book in 2010. I thought it would help a few teen mothers who might stumble across it and encourage them and actually show them how to graduate from high school, go to college, and beat the statistics. That’s it. Just teen moms. Well, it didn’t happen like that- I’m SO […]

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