Building Moral Intelligence

At a time when parents, educators, politicians, and policymakers are searching for new ways to fight the apparent indifference to right and wrong among young people, noted educator Dr. Michele Borba has created a new breakthrough in conceptualizing and teaching virtue, character, and values under the auspices of measurable capacity-Moral Intelligence. Without relying on didactic theory, sermonizing, or abstract philosophy, Dr. Borba offers a new way to understand, evaluate, and inspire our kids with the Seven Essential Virtues that comprise Moral Intelligence: empathy, conscience, self-control, respect, kindness, tolerance and fairness. Building Moral Intelligence gives parents and teachers practical self-tests for measuring their kids’ status and progress and includes helpful step-by-step guidelines. These detailed, hands-on activities include a range of projects that will appeal to kids from three to fifteen.