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School Partners Respond
You too may have read the most informative and pertinent article in the Sunday, September 1, 2002 Harrisburg Patriot. The article, "Core values could go mainstream,"appearing in the Local & State section of the newspaper detailed the positive results of a core values program currently being taught to students in the Halifax Middle School. Despite initial skepiticism and difficulties at the time of its introduction, the Discovery Process program, in its six years of operation in Halifax, is being credited with significant reductions in fights and with in-school and out-of-school suspensions.

The article also profiled the interest of state Sen. Allyson Schwartz, D-Philadelphia. Senator Schwartz has been actively compiling information concerning such character education programs in schools across Pennsylvania. She is also sponsoring legislation that would encourage similar programs in our schools, set guidelines and provide grant funding to implement them.

Our School Partners program was quick to jump on the perceived opportunity. Following some on-line discussions and strategy building, School Partners drafted letters to both the Patriot News and Sen. Schwartz detailing the long-running use of the "Personal and Social Responsibility" curriculum at the Dauphin County Technical School. The letters identified the sixteen-year efforts by Larry Evans in teaching the PSR curriculum, profiled the operation of the program with students and parents and described the new School Partners: Sharing the Bread initiative with school districts in Dauphin County.

You may view the letters in their entirety by clicking on the following links: Patriot News Senator Schwartz

To learn more about School Partners: Sharing the Bread just click here.

School Partners continues to seek volunteers to aid with our efforts. If you are a parent, a graduate of the DCTS Parent Seminar or otherwise a friend of DCTS and would like to help us with contacting our school districts or in other ways with spreading the word about affective skills education and its benefits to our children just drop a short e-mail to AffectiveSkills@aol.com expressing your interest.

We would very much love to have you with us.

–- John Borland –-

Affective Skills Web Site

Last Modified: March 30, 2003