Bryant, Colleen Doyle: - Colleen Doyle Bryant is the author of five books and more than 50 learning resources about making good choices for the right reasons. Her Talking with Trees series for elementary students and Truth Be Told series for teens are used in curriculums to teach good character traits and social emotional skills like honesty, respect, responsibility, and kindness. More than 100,000 of her good values teaching resources are downloaded each year by parents and teachers around the world. Her book Rooted in Decency, written for adults, looks at why common decency is suffering today and how society can get back to a shared set of values that promotes cooperation and trust.