Nurture Character Development and Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom

Need help with nurturing and maintaining a positive classroom climate?

Let us give you the tools you need to create an environment in which trust, acceptance, belonging, and joy are felt upon walking into your classroom.

The Character Tree video lessons foster the development of positive character traits like kindness, empathy, and perseverance so students can succeed in school and in life.

Standards Aligned

Our videos and printable activities are aligned with the Common Core Standards, Teaching Tolerance Standards, and the CASEL 5 competencies.

Engaging for Students

Students look forward to our videos each week! Each video is 7-10 minutes and follows an engaging storyline with puppets, animations, and colorful visuals.

No Prep for Teachers

Simply press the play button each week. Print out our Teacher’s Guides and student pages for follow-up activities that go with each video lesson.

Hi, I'm Sara!

I'm Sara, an elementary school teacher who is passionate about nurturing students’ positive identities. I believe that character education and social-emotional learning are key factors in physical and mental health, both of which contribute to academic and life success. The creation of The Character Tree lesson videos has allowed me to share this passion beyond the walls of my classroom, with you and your students! I am honored to get to be a small part of your classroom community.

Here's where you can start

Visit our blog and learn how to incorporate character education into your daily instruction.

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Try these video lessons from The Character Tree with your students for free.

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Purchase our grade-level bundles and use The Character Tree all year long!

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We’ve helped thousands of teachers and school counselors equip students with the skills and knowledge to embody positive character traits and we can help you too!

"This is EXACTLY what I needed at this point in the year for my Kindergarteners! Such a fun, Mr. Rogers feel to it! Thank you!"

“We have really loved using the Character tree videos and lessons. I teach special education with a diverse student population. They really love the videos and I love having the worksheets and lesson plans already made so we can learn/teach as we go. There isn’t any prep that I have to do other than I have been printing the worksheets and making them into a booklet for the students so they have one for each major topic that we cover.”

"I'd purchased your videos on gratitude previously and as soon as I saw this bundle I knew I needed to get it! My students enjoy the videos, they are very engaged during each lesson. The lessons are spot on. The printable resources are also high quality. I can tell a lot of time was spent on these. Great product and I highly recommend!"

Free Character Trait Affirmation Station

Nurture students' positive identities by creating an affirmation station in your classroom!

Bring The Character Tree Into Your Classroom

Help your students succeed in their school and personal life by nurturing character development and social-emotional learning in your classroom with The Character Tree video lessons.

Nurture Character Development and Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom

Need help with nurturing and maintaining a positive classroom climate?

Let us give you the tools you need to create an environment in which trust, acceptance, belonging, and joy are felt upon walking into your classroom.

Standards Aligned

Engaging for Students

No Prep for Teachers

Hi, I'm Sara!

Here's where you can start

We’ve helped thousands of teachers and school counselors equip students with the skills and knowledge to embody positive character traits and we can help you too!

Introduction

Classroom Expectations

Kindergarten

First Grade

Free Character Trait Affirmation Station

Bring The Character Tree Into Your Classroom

Free Friendship Video Lesson