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A growing body of research supports the notion that a school culture that incorporates high-quality character education can significantly increase academic achievement and reduce at-risk behaviors in young people. A safe and effective learning environment, that supports an intentional comprehensive approach to character development, is most successful when children are provided with opportunities to understand, care about and act upon core ethical virtues. Virtues such as responsibility, self-discipline and perseverance are aspects of performance character and correlate to academic achievement. Other virtues such as respect for one-self and others, integrity and compassion are examples of ethical character and correlate to building healthy relationships. Both of these dimensions of character directly impact a young person’s future functioning in the workplace and society.
Schools are constantly engaged in shaping character whether they are aware of it or not. The challenge to educators is how to become more intentional and diligent about that process in order to better enable children to care about and act upon core ethical virtues. Effective character education in schools needs to be appropriately modeled by all adults who come in contact with students. It has to be seamlessly integrated into all academic curriculum and aspects of schooling. A successful school not only provides students with knowledge and skills, but also has an important role in shaping character attributes and social skills that develop the whole child.
States that have adopted character development standards and also provide financial support to districts in implementing character initiatives have shown an increase in academic achievement and a decrease in overall negative behaviors. Many schools nationwide have adopted their own core ethical virtues defining the unique and specific character traits embraced within that school community. They have discovered that integrating character discussion into existing curriculum creates an essential foundation for meeting all educational goals.
“Top drawer teaching and learning can never flourish in a sterile or toxic environment.”
---Terrence Beal & Kent Peterson, Authors: Shaping School Culture
Schools are constantly engaged in shaping character whether they are aware of it or not. The challenge to educators is how to become more intentional and diligent about that process in order to better enable children to care about and act upon core ethical virtues. Effective character education in schools needs to be appropriately modeled by all adults who come in contact with students. It has to be seamlessly integrated into all academic curriculum and aspects of schooling. A successful school not only provides students with knowledge and skills, but also has an important role in shaping character attributes and social skills that develop the whole child.
States that have adopted character development standards and also provide financial support to districts in implementing character initiatives have shown an increase in academic achievement and a decrease in overall negative behaviors. Many schools nationwide have adopted their own core ethical virtues defining the unique and specific character traits embraced within that school community. They have discovered that integrating character discussion into existing curriculum creates an essential foundation for meeting all educational goals.
“Top drawer teaching and learning can never flourish in a sterile or toxic environment.”
---Terrence Beal & Kent Peterson, Authors: Shaping School Culture
“Top drawer teaching and learning can never flourish in a sterile or toxic environment.”
---Terrence Beal & Kent Peterson, Authors: Shaping School Culture
---Terrence Beal & Kent Peterson, Authors: Shaping School Culture
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•Providing opportunities for youth to have an authentic voice in shaping the culture of their school.
•Empowering and engaging youth to build a more bottom-up approach to relevance of their education.
•Increasing academic achievement among youth by promoting effective evidence-based character education best practices.
•Supporting innovative and effective educational reform initiatives.
•Increasing parental involvement and coalition-building in shaping what character education looks like in their own schools.
•Promoting participation in comprehensive lifelong learning communities by involving local businesses and government.
•Increase cultural competency, inclusiveness and understanding built on a consensus of ethics across the entire community.
•Empowering and engaging youth to build a more bottom-up approach to relevance of their education.
•Increasing academic achievement among youth by promoting effective evidence-based character education best practices.
•Supporting innovative and effective educational reform initiatives.
•Increasing parental involvement and coalition-building in shaping what character education looks like in their own schools.
•Promoting participation in comprehensive lifelong learning communities by involving local businesses and government.
•Increase cultural competency, inclusiveness and understanding built on a consensus of ethics across the entire community.
Our Values
Goals & Activities
Our broad long term goals are to better prepare young people for today’s workplace demands and the responsibilities of participating in a democratic society. To accomplish this, we will provide:
•Expert grant writing consultation and donor cultivation to sustain the initiative so that it can have a deep and lasting impact on youth.
•Assessment & evaluation to monitor success and identify challenges for continuous improvement.
•High quality professional development opportunities for educators to raise the bar for both academic and character based teaching practices
Goals & Activities
Our broad long term goals are to better prepare young people for today’s workplace demands and the responsibilities of participating in a democratic society. To accomplish this, we will provide:
•Expert grant writing consultation and donor cultivation to sustain the initiative so that it can have a deep and lasting impact on youth.
•Assessment & evaluation to monitor success and identify challenges for continuous improvement.
•High quality professional development opportunities for educators to raise the bar for both academic and character based teaching practices
Shaping School Culture