Courage in My Life
For more information about this program, please contact Elizabeth Evans.The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum's "Courage in My Life" sixth grade program is a language arts and character development curriculum used in Boston Public Schools and in local parochial, charter and private schools and religious academies.
This year-long program empowers students to realize that their actions and decisions can be powerful agents of change, both in their lives and the lives of others. Through reading, writing and discussion, students discover then recognize the role of courage in the lives of the characters they read about, in the lives of those around them, and in their own lives - past, present and future.
The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum has been incorporated within the Massachusetts literacy frameworks for state learning standards and today, nearly 100% of Boston Public Schools' sixth-grade classrooms benefit from this comprehensive language arts program, reaching more than 3,500 children and their families annually.
Since 1991, the Courage Curriculum has engaged more than 80,000 young people in reading, writing, discussion, and critical thinking and supported their teachers in promoting literacy and value-based education.