The Good Blog
Educating the Heart: Creating Open Minds Through Service and Leadership
When our dynamic world is in flux, it is easy to allow challenges to overwhelm us, causing us to turn away from finding solutions. It is also easy to allow opposing views over social and economic issues to divide us. What happens …
Care (“meléte”) and Virtue (“areté”): A “Melarete” Project for Children in Italy
Luigina Mortari is the Scientific Director of the Center of Educational and Didactic Research at the University of Verona in Italy. In the post below, she shares details of a curriculum she and her colleagues developed that emphasizes care and virtue. Educating …
An Action Call: “I Am A Citizen” Project
Arina Bokas is an author, independent educational consultant, and faculty member in the department of English at Mott Community College, Michigan. She is also the editor of Kids’ Standard Magazine. Is civic education on the decline in America? Like many educators, the …
Colleagues from the Netherlands Visit The Good Project
In October 2016, The Good Project welcomed five colleagues from the Netherlands affiliated with The Professional Honor Foundation (PHF), a Dutch organization that explores professional identity and behavior across many sectors. PHF is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary. In honor of this …
Excellence, Engagement, and Ethics in Election 2016
Back in the spring, we asked readers of our April 2016 newsletter to ponder the following questions with relation to the 2016 U.S. presidential election: Excellence 1. What abilities and qualities do we expect a public office holder to demonstrate? 2. Who among the …
Students Consider the “Good Life” at the University of Florida
At the University of Florida, Jennifer Smith, Director of the Office for Faculty Development and Teaching Excellence, and Andrew Wolpert, Good Life Course Director and Associate Professor of Classics, have been spearheading a course titled “What Is the Good Life?” This multi-disciplinary …
Bloomsburg University’s Joan Miller and Mary Katherine Duncan on “Good Work”
Over the past several years, our colleagues Dr. Joan Miller and Dr. Mary Katherine Duncan (along with Dr. Jennifer Johnson) have been working on a set of Good Work-related endeavors at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. We spoke with Joan and Mary Katherine …
What Makes a Good Teacher? First-Year Reflections
Victoria Nichols, a former member of our team, has recently completed her first year as a middle school teacher in California. Last year, she shared her thoughts on the meaning of “good” teaching in a previous blog post. In this new contribution, …
Bringing Digital Citizenship to Young Students
Carmela Curatola Knowles is a Technology Integration Specialist and experienced educator in Southeastern Pennsylvania. In this guest blog, Carmela describes her passion for early digital citizenship education and a book series that she created to help young students understand the implications of …
Bridging the Digital Divide: A Student Film Festival on Digital Citizenship
Johanna Mustacchi has been an educator in the Croton-Harmon, New York, school district for the past two decades. She teaches Media Literacy and Communications Skills, Digital Citizenship and Mindfulness at the Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School and has written several times for …
Making Good Schools: Reflections of a Life-long Educator
In today’s society dialogue is barely civil, so it is exciting to read about the Good Project’s ideas about Good Work and their application to education. My question is: can the Good Work enterprise leave the realm of ideas and become a …
Educating for Consumer Ethics: An Interview with Liz Ricketts
Liz Ricketts is a current Master’s student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) interested in the ethics of consumption, particularly related to the fashion industry. Her accomplishments include the creation of The OR Foundation and the “These Things Take Time” …
