The School for Ethical Education (SEE)

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The School for Ethical Education (SEE) was founded in 1995 as a 501(c)(3) education organization that is nonsectarian and obtains most of its financial support from public and foundation grants, fee for services, and gifts from Wright Investors' Service of Milford, Connecticut. SEE is not affiliated with any religious organizations and does not espouse or represent a specific religious belief through its programs described here.

For Students

	*Student Activists for* Service-Learning** (SASL) is a youth leadership group of high school students from New Haven area schools. SASL's service-learning mission is to promote and support service learning as a teaching strategy in New Haven area secondary schools. Students are invited to join SASL by submitting a membership application.
	Career Catchers; Creating a Circle of Support for a Lifetime of Success Career Catchers is a project of SASL that provides a website packed with information about career choices and post-secondary options. SASL promotes the use of Career Catchers as a high-school service-learning project to encourage student post-secondary education planning.

For Teachers & Students

	Integrity Works! Integrity Works! is a program that promotes academic integrity to reduce cheating and plagiarism in secondary schools. SEE provides guidance to schools from an Academic Integrity Committee (AIC) with the goal of authoring, implementing and evaluating a strategic plan promoting academic integrity. Integrity Works! has its own Academic Motivation and Integrity Survey (AMIS) for research-based student survey measurement.
	Youth: Ethics in Service (YES) Youth: Ethics in Service (YES), promotes the use of academic service-learning by K-12 Connecticut educators. The goal of the YES service-learning program is to help teachers learn to use service-learning as a teaching methodology for academic achievement, civic engagement, and character development.
	Connecticut's Laws of Life Essay Program The Laws of Life Essay Program is a writing project with a focus on character development. It provides students in grades 5-12 the unique opportunity to reflect, discuss with peers and parents and write about their core values, principles, and ideals that will guide them through their lives. Laws of Life supports a complete teaching unit to integrate Laws of Life essay into the reading of To Kill a Mockingbird.
	The Golden Compass (Character-based decision making) The activities and skills taught through application of The Golden Compass workbook provide a compass needle that always points to alternatives in support of positive character. Teachers and students learn a character-based decision making strategy and are provided 56 dilemmas to help students practice the Golden Compass strategy. The dilemmas are circumstances that are relevant to the life of middle school and high school students while at school, home or in the community. SEE will sell the workbook separately and provides professional development to support its implementation. The Golden Compass workbook is a great resource for advisor-advisee programs.
	Consulting Services All SEE consulting services and student programs support school implementation of character or social-emotional learning initiatives. An outline of our services include: Consulting Topics - SEE provides consulting to schools, school districts and other organizations that are seeking to implement comprehensive character education or social emotional learning. Consulting topics are broadly classified into Strategic Planning, Program Implementation and Program Evaluation. Professional Development Workshops - SEE Professional Development Workshops are all designed to help support the implementation of specific procedures, strategies or activities to advance character development and social-emotional learning. Student Programs - All SEE programs provide students the opportunity to engage their head (cognitive domain), heart (affective domain) and hand (behavior domain) in the advancement of character and social-emotional learning.

For the Community

John Winthrop Wright Ethics in Action Award

John Winthrop Wright Ethics in Action Award seeks to highlight leaders who demonstrate positive character. Named after SEE’s founder, John Winthrop Wright, this annual award recognizes individuals who demonstrate authentic commitment to ethics and positive character in their leadership. Nominations are invited through submission of the official nomination form.

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