Common Core State Standards

Introduce kids to diversity, respecting differences, being inclusive, and appreciating people the way they are.

Teach kids that teasing animals isn’t nice, they can choose to be kind to animals, and it’s important to ask before touching someone’s pet.

Kids learn strategies to express themselves, build relationships, end arguments and fights, halt bullying, and beat unhappy feelings.

Children learn peaceful conflict resolution: calm yourself, state the problem, listen, think of solutions, evaluate results, and agree to disagree when a solution isn’t possible.

Encourage children to put things back where items belong, ask permission to use things that don’t belong to them, and respect the environment.

Teach children that their words belong to them: they can think before they speak, then choose what to say.

Teach children simple good manners and gracious behavior including “Please,” “Thank you,” and “I’m sorry.”

Unique introduction to the juvenile justice system invites young people to preside over twenty-one real-life cases of teens in trouble with the law.

Help children develop listening skills, understand why it’s important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening.

In thirty first-person accounts, teens tell how they overcame major life obstacles and readers learn about seven resiliencies—such as insight, initiative, creativity, humor—that everyone needs to survive and thrive in even the toughest times.