Developmental Assets and Academic Achievement
See how research links asset building to student success.
Building Character and Improving School Climate
Focusing on your students’ strengths can transform your school. Search Institute has the resources you need to build positive:
- Relationships with students;
- Environments that foster learning; and
- Programs and practices that get results.
What’s Good for the Students Is Good for the Teachers

Educators frequently ask, “How can I build Developmental Assets with my students if I’m not experiencing them myself?”
In the fall of 2008, Search Institute will publish How Was Your Day at School? Improving Dialogue about Teacher Job Satisfaction. This book leads schools and individuals through the same sort of empowering and transformational thinking for educators that we apply with our students.




