The Character Education Partnership (CEP), a national advocate and leader for the character education movement, is pleased to announce the application process for the 2013 Promising Practices in Character Education is open and encourages those who implement character education in their programs to apply. Educators can apply between Dec. 17, 2012 and March 17, 2013. Click HERE to apply online.
Promising Practices in Character Education are successful, unique ways of reinforcing character traits in K-12 students. Most practices are simple in scope and inexpensive by design, yet enable students to experience positive character first-hand, as well as enrich their lives and the lives of others.
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Written by Russell J. Sojourner, Ph.D., director of Leadership Development at CEP, explains how a re-energized and innovative approach to character education today offers great opportunity to provide children with the skills, knowledge, and dispositions to become life-long learners, get good jobs, have healthy relationships and to become productive and contributing members of the community. Effective school-based character education must promote the pursuit of excellence and the pursuit of ethical behavior.
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by Mark Hyatt
Executive Director and CEO
Character Education Partnership
Whether or not you consider the scandal that caused CIA Director David Petraeus to resign to be a character failure, most feel that the celebrated General’s ability to lead the intelligence agency had been irreparably compromised. To many of us—especially those with military experience—David Petraeus is a great American public servant and one of the most respected military leaders in modern times. In fact, on a recent trip to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, I stayed in the Thayer Hotel. Across the hall from my room was “The David Petraeus Suite.”
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All schools and districts that can demonstrate excellence in character education, as measured by CEP’s 11 Principles of Effective Character Education, will be considered for State and/or National Schools of Character recognition. 206 NSOC have been named in the United States.
“Winning the NSOC award is very prestigious, but it isn’t about getting an award. It is about doing the work that is important. The award just affirms that the work you are doing as a school community is representative of the 11 Principles.”–Connie Browning, Principal, Uthoff Valley E.S. (2011 NSOC)
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The Character Education Partnership (CEP) is pleased to team-up with noted truancy expert, CEP advisor and retired Court Judge Irene Sullivan to help parents, educators and communities reduce children’s’ truancy during the school year.
According to Judge Sullivan, problems increase during the academic year when students are faced with the stresses of school. For many middle and high school students, a new school year brings discouragement, suspensions, and temptations instead of new challenges and friends. The resulting delinquency may often lead to an adult life plagued by family dysfunction, crime, poverty and unemployment.
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