What is Next for the Supportive Classroom?

Posted on January 29, 2006

The Partnership in Character Education grant that I am currently working on to support schools to learn and use the Supportive Classroom curriculum is ending this Summer. I am working with a couple of my colleagues at the University of Vermont to design a new grant proposal for next year, but so far we haven't found a funding source for this work. The Partnership in Character Education Program grants are "supposed" to be available again this year, but they are way late and with the budget cuts at the Federal level this year, who know what will happen with these grants!

Regardless of whether or not we obtain funding for next year, I am going to keep this blog going and I am going to begin to rewrite the manual. The current manual is aimed at a classroom (students and staff). I want to expand the manual to look at developing school-wide and community support for the implementation of the Supportive Classroom. I would greatly appreciate any ideas / feedback from those of you who have used the manual. What is missing? What sections need further refinement? What do you like about the manual? What do you dislike? You can add comments here or e-mail me at timothy.fox@uvm.edu.

Also, I am looking for a few schools to work with next year. If we are able to obtain a grant, there may be some money to support me to work with several schools (depending on the type of grant we are able to obtain). If your school would like training and support for implementing the Supportive Classroom and you have training money available, let me know and we can discuss the possibilities.

Thanks for listening. I hope you are enjoying the site and the podcasts.

Tim