Beyond Next Steps: preparing students for their future lives

By Kirsten McHugh

Published: Character.org

Kirsten McHugh from The Good Project shares some of the early qualitative results from a two-year formal study exploring the possible outcomes of curriculum focused on dilemmas and personal reflection, and the fostering of personal character development for students. The results show the longer-term benefits of character education. McHugh illustrates the link between nurturing character strengths and high-level disciplinary learning, and broader societal change.

This image was chosen to represent the article as a hummingbird can fly any direction and this bird is launching into the air, representing flying into the future.