A Boston school for grades 6-12 is making a deliberate effort to help students develop ethical minds. Each year, all students take an ethical philosophy class in which they discuss the school's core values and how these values are addressed in the writings of such philosophers as Aristotle and Rousseau. Through these classes, students develop a common vocabulary about respect that is used schoolwide, whether during regular whole-school gatherings or in one-on-one conferences with administrators. Teachers and students believe that this attention to respect and other core values has played a pivotal role in students' academic success.