Spiritual Development

What does CSEE offer schools?

• professional development opportunities and school workshops for school faculties
• tools to help schools measure spiritual climate and progress:
our spiritual audit form, to help adults consider a number of areas
our Spiritual Climate Survey, to assess student perspective:
• assistance in defining/setting goals
• resources to help reach goals
• "Pathmaps" activities to help stimulate seven facets of the spiritual life
• recognition of excellence in schools that have achieved a high degree of success in establishing a climate conducive to spiritual growth

Standards for Spiritual Development
CSEE's standards for establishing a spiritual climate draw on research evidence as a base, and enrich it both with what we know about school missions for spiritual development from a variety of religious traditions, and with the work of CSEE's multifaith team of educators (see more under both "Pathmaps" and "recognition").

Tools
CSEE's spiritual audit form is available free of charge to member schools, to help members of the school community look into, and ask themselves questions about, areas of the school that may be furthering the school's mission for spiritual development, or that may be retarding progress.

Assistance
We want to help our member schools further the moral and spiritual growth of children. CSEE's executive director and other consultants can assist with a variety of issues, from free telephone consultations for member schools with specific questions, to on-site consultation visits to work on larger issues. 

Spiritual Climate Survey
Developed in 2008 and 2009 with input from spiritual directors, chaplains, religion teachers and campus ministers from a variety of schools, this survey aims to help schools get a picture of a school's climate for spiritual development "where the rubber hits the road": from the perspective of students. The SCS will be widely field tested in the fall of 2009, and available to schools for a quite reasonable fee thereafter.

Pathmaps
See more about our "Pathmaps" questions and activities here. They address seven facets of the spiritual life that can, and should, be addressed in students' lives at every school.

Recognition of Excellence in Schools
As the materials described have developed, CSEE will begin recognizing, in the 2009-10 school year, schools that have achieved, or are well into the process of establishing, a climate wherein all school constituents recognize the school's spiritual development goals and achievements. See more here.