Resources for Teachers and Schools
Campaign for Forgiveness Research
offers video streaming of Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Robert Coles and Ruby Bridges Hall inviting all to join their community of forgiveness by supporting a growing effort to promote more forgiveness around the world. The wisdom on this site will help to lead global citizens in their quest for peace.

Center for Advancement of Ethics and Character
Respected center focusing on education of teachers, with good resources including sample lesson plans.

Center for the 4th and 5th R's
serves as a regional, state and national resource in character education. A growing national movement, character education is essential to the task of building a moral society and developing schools which are civil and caring communities.

Connect For Kids
an award-winning multimedia project of the Benton Foundation, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. This site is for parents, grandparents, and educators who want to become more active citizens with kids in mind.

First Amendment Schools
educating freedom and responsibility. The 1st Amendment Center is a national initiative designed to transform how schools model and teach the rights and responsibilities of citizenship that frame civic life in our democracy.

Ophelia Project
Ophelia Project is dedicated to creating a safe social and emotional climate in schools and communities. Ophelia targets bullying and relational aggression – gossip, rumor spreading & exclusion.

The Global Gazette
What is culture? This website is an international newspaper that focuses on culture in the USA, Norway & China: traditions, sports, governments, arts, music & every day life.

Tolerance.org
encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance." There are resources for teachers, parents and children.

Book Publishers and Periodicals
Book Links
is a magazine designed for teachers, librarians, parents and other adults interested in connecting children to high quality books.

Lee & Low Books
a rich site with a Teacher Resource Center, Classroom Guides to great multicultural books and tools for the classroom.

Peachtree Publishing
Peachtree is one of the original independent southern book publishers focusing on titles for children, teenagers, self-help & parenting. Their books are thoughtfully and lovingly designed and illustrated and tell powerful and moving stories.

For the Kids
Giraffe Project
encourages kids to stick their necks out for the common good by telling stories of real-life heroes in the media, in schools, and on podiums.

Kamali'i Elementary School (Maui, Hawaii)
Aloha! from Kamali'i Elementary School in Hawaii. This school is very proud of their Heartwood program and their website, combining technology learning for all the classrooms and character education. Check under Character Education for student thoughts, songs and projects.

Kids Around Town
Hands on approach to learning skills needed to address real issues in schools and neighborhoods.

Heartwood Author Websites
Jane Kurtz website
Jane Kurtz spent her early years in Ethiopia, a magical place to be a child, full of flowers, sun, fog and mountains. Read about why Kurtz wants to share this beautiful country with Americans. Read about her awards and books on Ethiopia. Kurtz wrote Fire on the Mountain

A letter to readers from Eve Bunting with a list of her many books
Bunting wrote Fly Away Home, The Wall, A Day’s Work, How Many Days to America, Sunshine Home, Going Home, Train to Somewhere.

Ezra Jack Keats: A Virtual Exhibit
The Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit highlights original materials from seven titles featuring the character, Peter, who first appeared in 1962 with the publication of The Snowy Day. Learn about the making of a Keat’s book and visit activities and internet resources using his books. Keats wrote Maggie and the Pirate

Interviews with Allen Say and David Wisniewski
Click on Allen Say or David Wisniewski for information about their lives, books with personal interviews. Allen Say wrote Grandfather’s Journey and Tea With Milk. Wisniewski wrote The Warrior and the Wiseman.

Lynne Cherry website
Lynne Cherry created this web site to share information about her books and about the how, why, when & where she wrote them. There is lots of information about environmental issues and how kids can make a difference. Cherry wrote The Great Kapok Tree and The River Ran Wild.

Mem Fox website
Mem Fox’ website, that works like a book, is about her, her books, teaching and opinions on writing. Fox wrote Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and Whoever You Are.

Nikki Grimes website
Wander into the Poetry Zone with Nikke Grimes. Learn about the author’s life and what an author’s life is really like. You’ll find advice for budding poets and writers and ideas for teachers. Grimes wrote My Man Blue and A Dime a Dozen.

Patricia Polacco website
Read about Polacco’s books or listen to her read a story. Enter a writing contest or get subscribe to her newsletter Polacco wrote: Thunder Cake, Chicken Sunday, Pink and Say. Read about Polacco’s books or listen to her read a story. Enter a writing contest or get subscribe to her newsletter) Polacco wrote: Thunder Cake, Chicken Sunday, Pink and Say

Tomie dePaola website
Award winning and friendly Tomie dePaola talks about himself, being an artist, and his creative process. dePaola wrote The Legend of the Bluebonnet.