Curriculum Title Reviewed: Domestic Violence

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	This might be best done as a club or service learning group.	In conjunction with a healthy relationship curriculum, or with career development (Human services) or in English class with excerpted readings.
Which grades?	9-12	9-12	9-12
Subjects?	Health, FACS, ELA	Health, Career Development-used in conjunction with English class readings	Health/ELA
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	These are fine	Appropriate goals-could be strengthened through guest speakers (survivors) as well as through a counseling expert.	Okay
Community needs	Needs are addressed	Teen violence and control and healthy relationships highly relevant. Bringing in domestic violence survivors and counseling experts may make the problem more understandable.	Okay
Character virtue prominence	This section is fine	Prominent through caring and giving. Also show respect and responsibility through actions (SL activities).	Okay
SL activities	Activities are very good	Easy project to replicate. Required readings may vary by class and would necessitate additional research.	What goes into “gift” bags? Is it really realistic to expect high school kids to be emotionally mature enough to handle the stress of working the hotline?
Reflection activities	Activities are very good.	Appropriate and specific-oral, performance and written. Needs additional tweaking to allow full reflection of character virtues.	Good
Costs	$0-$150	Cost very minimal. Money needed for celebration breakfast.	Manageable
Time needed	Year long	Year long project.	Year-long
Teacher preparation required	Teacher will contact and schedule speakers and will suggest appropriate websites and literature. Teacher will facilitate and implement the project.	Community outreach	Would need good partnerships with community organizations
Possible improvements	This project is great, but we question a high school student manning a domestic violence hotline.	Students could volunteer to man phone lines, too stressful/unrealistic to make a requirement.	Awkwardly written-needs some grammar/wording cleanup.
Assessment items	Rubric is too general. Assessment is fine. Open-ended questions should be asked. They are more indicative of knowledge gained.	Very relevant. Appropriate for mature students.	Pretty obvious questions for high school. No long-answer?
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced	Moderately experienced
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	Strong	Average-Strong	Average
Addressing the character virtues	Strong	Average-Strong	Average-Strong
Relevance to actual academic content	Strong	Average-Strong	Average
Reflection activities	Strong	Average-Strong	Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Very Strong	Strongly	Strongly
Citizenship	Very Strong	Somewhat	Strongly
Fairness	Somewhat	Somewhat	Somewhat
Giving	Strongly	Strongly	Strongly
Respect	Strongly	Strongly	Somewhat
Responsibility	Very Strong	Strongly	Strongly
Trustworthy	Very Strong	Somewhat	Somewhat

Curriculum Title Reviewed: Don’t Shed a Tear, Volunteer

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm??	N/A	It could be done in conjunction with either a letter-writing unit in ELA or a unit on community in Social Studies.
which grades	3 – 6	3 – 12	3-5
academic subj.	Language Arts, Social Studies, Technology	ELA/Social Studies	ELA/Technology
The learning goals and academic skills	Great – if possible, students could actually participate as a volunteer (shadow a volunteer) in order to better understand the job of the volunteers.	Goals/Skills seem appropriate for the project. Is it possible for students to help recruiting volunteers? Possibly matching volunteer likes with community needs.	Okay
Relevance of community needs	Civic association, local environmental (Sierra-Club)	The needs are relevant. How about involving the local media to possibly print info.?	Good
character virtues prominence	Excellent!	The character virtues are a prominent part of the curriculum, but how do we measure their understanding?	Okay
SL activities	Yes.	This would be able to be replicated in the classroom relatively easily.	Okay-is mailing party a service?
Reflection activities	(n/a)	(n/a)	Okay
The costs	Ok.	Postage – could prove to be very costly. Is there a less-costly distribution method?	Very manageable unless postage is too much
The time needed	Should work.	It could be done in stages.	One month max
Teacher preparation required	(n/a)	(n/a)	Doable
Possible improvements	(n/a)	(n/a)
Assessment items	Excellent.	They seem to be relevant and appropriate.	Good
experienced in CE	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced.	Moderately experienced.
experienced in SL	Moderately experienced.	Moderately experienced.	Moderately experienced.
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	(n/a)	(n/a)	Average-Strong
Addressing the character virtues	(n/a)	(n/a)	Average-Strong
Relevance to actual academic content	(n/a)	(n/a)	Average
Reflection activities	(n/a)	(n/a)	Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Very strong.	Strongly.	Strongly
citizenship	Very strong.	Strongly.	Strongly
Fairness	Somewhat.	Not at all.	Not at all
Giving	Very strong.	Strongly.	Strongly
Respect	Very strong.	Strongly.	Somewhat
Responsibility	Very strong.	Strongly.	Somewhat
Trustworthy	Very strong.	Not at all.	Not at all

Curriculum Title Reviewed: Food Baskets for Nutrition

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	As a follow up on a nutrition lesson with the food groups as a guideline.	In health class and in Math-if students go to store to shop, they can price things out, work on a budget, in reading they can look through ads for sale items.
Which grades?	K – 2, as noted	K-3	K-5
Subjects?	Science	Health, MST, ELA (not listed but students can make pamphlets or cards to place in baskets about healthy food choices).	Health/Arts
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	Yes.	Yes, appropriate. I would have students create a chart or pamphlet to insert in the basket that tells about inexpensive, healthy food/snacks.	Good
Community needs	Yes.	Yes, relevant. If there is a local food pantry or soup kitchen may help to explain to students types of foods people eat.	Good
Character virtue prominence	The character virtues are addressed but the kids are NOT required to deal with hungry people, therefore, they are not given the hands-on opportunity to work with people who can strengthen these character virtues.	They appear to be prominent part.	Good
SL activities	Yes, but I’m not happy with the fact that they are physically removed from the people they are helping.	Not detailed enough. Need more info on preparation. Does not talk at length about prep or purpose of shopping trip, how will students choose what to purchase, etc. Needs to clarify.	Should the food drive/fundraiser be included here?
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Reflection #3 a bit weak, is it necessary? Reflections need to focus more on the character virtues.	Okay
Costs	??	Materials for food drive, transportation to market, box/baskets, decorations for them, placemats, cards, food for celebration.	Doable if people donate well
Time needed	??	One month maximum-nutrition unit lengthy.	1-2 months
Teacher preparation required	(n/a)	Organize visits by service agencies, lesson plans in topic, organize transportation to store, purchase materials for baskets, organize celebration and activities around reflection.	Doable
Possible improvements	(n/a)	Have students create listing or pamphlet of inexpensive healthy food choices of the pyramid and explain to recipients how the food in box meets criteria. Have recipes using ingredients in box, have students drop boxes off to centers.	If you’re aiming for good variety of foods, fundraiser may be best because people donate a limited range.
Assessment items	Good job.	Assessments are relevant and appropriate, could be a bit stronger.	Should there be some ?s about their increased knowledge of proper nutrition?
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.
Experience needed in SL	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	(n/a)	Average-Strong	Average
Addressing the character virtues	(n/a)	Average	Average-Strong
Relevance to actual academic content	(n/a)	Average	Average-Strong
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Average	Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Somewhat.	Somewhat	Strongly
Citizenship	Somewhat.	Not at all	Strongly
Fairness	Not at all.	Not at all	Somewhat
Giving	Somewhat.	Strongly	Strongly
Respect	Somewhat.	Somewhat	Strongly
Responsibility	Somewhat.	Not at all	Somewhat
Trustworthy	Not at all.	Not at all	Somewhat

Curriculum Title Reviewed: Food for Thought

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	Nutrition and financial unit in family consumer science/health class.	Whole class would be involved in this project.
Which grades?	4, 5, 6 (and possibly 7 and 8 with more depth)	3-5	3-8
Subjects?	Family Consumer Science, Health	Health, Family and Consumer Science, Science.	Health/FCS
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	Goals and skills are appropriate.	These goals are fine.	Great
Community needs	Community needs are addressed. Perhaps a local hospital could send a nutritionist to speak to students about healthy living as well.	This section is good.	Good
Character virtue prominence	Giving isn’t clearly identified or illustrated in the project. Responsibility/Respect for selves might fit better.	This section is good.	Good
SL activities	All are detailed and simplified.	These activities are very good.	Good
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Reflection activities are very good. Students should share poems they wrote (Reflection #2)	Good
Costs	Busing only. Materials to be donated.	$0-$150.	Doable
Time needed	10 weeks; one quarter	Semester	Semester
Teacher preparation required	(n/a)	Teacher will instruct students on letter writing and making a brochure, teach unit on nutrition, make arrangements for field trip to food store, and arrange speakers.	Doable
Possible improvements	(n/a)	Project is fine as is.
Assessment items	Assessment items are relevant and appropriate for grades 4 – 6. Grade 3 seems too young.	Rubric is too general.
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Moderately experienced.	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	(n/a)	Strong	Average
Addressing the character virtues	(n/a)	Strong	Average-strong
Relevance to actual academic content	(n/a)	Strong	Average-strong
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Strong	Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Somewhat.	Very strong.	Strongly
Citizenship	Very strong.	Strongly.	Strongly
Fairness	Not at all.	Not at all.	Somewhat
Giving	Somewhat.	Very strong.	Strongly
Respect	Not at all.	Somewhat.	Somewhat
Responsibility	Not at all.	Somewhat.	Strongly
Trustworthy	Not at all.	Not at all.	Somewhat

Curriculum Title Reviewed: From Publishing to Pride: Strengthening Neighborhood Dignity

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	This could be an interdisciplinary project between ELA and Social Studies	As a special semester-long, on-going assignment. To be used in conjunction with article writing.
Which grades?	7-12	9-12	9-12
Subjects?	ELA, Social Studies	Language Arts, English, Participation in Government	ELA, Art(4), PE(3)
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	Learning goals and academic skills are appropriate. They can be strengthened with their logical connection with the ELA curriculum and Social Studies at both the High School and Junior High level.	Highly appropriate. Will be necessary for teacher to have strong community ties/dynamic personality. Must be able to teach article writing.	Arts, PE
Community needs	Community needs are addressed. Historians should be added to the list of partners.	Bolstering community pride is relevant. Strong partners are necessary-from interviews to newspaper buy-in. No additional partners needed.	Outreach: social, religious, political, veterans’ groups
Character virtue prominence	This section is very good. No suggestions given.	Prominent as long as the teacher drives the virtues into all thought processes of the project.	Good.
SL activities	This section is good.	Project can be very easily replicated. A time-consuming project.	Have students do more research on community problems’ history. Have students help recruit interviewers.
Reflection activities	Reflections are satisfactory. Reflection #3 is very good.	Highly appropriate, teacher will need to continually stress the character virtues.	They’re good. Add journaling?
Costs	This project can be done at no cost.	Minimal; money needed for photographs and celebration.	Transportation
Time needed	1 or 2 months.	Ideally a semester so all students are given the opportunity.	4 mos.?
Teacher preparation required	Teacher will contact people to be interviewed and local newspaper. Teacher will provide lessons on the interview process and skills needed to write a newspaper article.	Teacher must do extensive community networking to assure all students safety/appropriateness of interviewee.
Possible improvements	No suggested Possible improvements	Longer service project time-an entire semester as opposed to 1-2 months. Dependent on class size.	Video interviews? Critique themselves, each other (but kindly!)
Assessment items	Questions are relevant and appropriate. However, the rubric for open ended questions needs more work. Rubric should be more specific in their criteria.	Assessment done through quiz and small essay. Appropriate, but with all work done, perhaps a few students could write an expanded article for the partnering newspaper.	6 is weird. A, C, D are plagiarism. However, B may or may not be bad. No proof B is OK!
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience	Moderately
Experience needed in SL	Little or no experience	Moderately
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	Strong	Average-Strong	Average
Addressing the character virtues	Average-Strong	Average-Strong	Average-Strong
Relevance to actual academic content	Strong	Average-Strong	Average-Strong
Reflection activities	Average	Average-Strong	Average-Strong
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Somewhat	Somewhat	Strongly
Citizenship	Very strong	Strongly	Very Strong
Fairness	Not at all	Not at all	Somewhat
Giving	Not at all	Somewhat	Somewhat
Respect	Strongly	Strongly	Strongly
Responsibility	Not at all	Somewhat	Strongly
Trustworthy	Not at all	Somewhat	Strongly