| Performance standards for social responsibility as laid out by the British Columbia Ministry of Education in the Social Responsibility: A Framework (2001) document, include these key ideas: being friendly, being helpful, solving problems peacefully, being optimistic, and using common sense. To have 90% of all students to feel safe by the year 2007 is an Accountability Contract Goal (British Columbia. School District 64 Gulf Islands, 2003) and a strategy to connect this goal with desired student results is to implement the performance standards for social responsibility. Since 1975, many colleagues and I have uncovered the potential for developing social responsibility through an understanding of common sense and an awareness of the role of thought. For this project I explored the effectiveness of the Leadership and Learning (Campsall, 2001) course and the effects that an understanding of common sense and an awareness of the role of thought have on social responsibility. |
