Each year, as part of the National Schools of Character (NSOC) program, CEP recognizes educators in the United States and elsewhere who have implemented unique, specific, and effective character education strategies.

Promising Practices application closed to the general public.

2013 State Schools of Character/National Schools of Character applicants have until April 15 to apply.

If your school or district has developed and successfully implemented a unique practice, CEP encourages you to apply for a 2014 Promising Practice. We are not looking for a description of your whole character education program, but rather for a specific practice or aspect of your program that other schools may learn from and even replicate.

Promising Practices put one or more of the 11 Principles into action. Learn more by downloading our 11 Principles of Effective Character Education

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Featured Promising Practice

Knowing my Teenager
Secundaria Tec de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad Juarez,
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Principle 10: Engages families and community members as partners.

Topics: Conflict Resolution / Peer Mediation
Orientations / Welcoming
Relationship Building

Grade Levels: 8-10

This activity was designed for the families of our newly admitted students who will begin our school in August 2012. The students are 11 to 13 years old. Teachers and school administrators have observed in other generations that parents of adolescents are astonished when informed of the actions of their children both with their peers and with teachers and authorities. They argue that they know their child perfectly well and do not recognize such behavior. They sometimes even doubt that we are telling the truth regarding their child’s academic performance. This led us to create a workshop for parents, which includes reading excerpts from research reports regarding adolescents and their behaviors in this period of their life. The goal is to help parents to identify and understand these seemly incongruent behaviors, which are a normal part of the growth and maturity process. We hope this will help parents with the challenge of coping with these changing behaviors of their adolescents. In addition this exchange will also prove valuable in fostering the exchange of ideas and the relationship between families whose children will enter our school in the near future.

Main Contact
Mrs. Blanca Trevino
Principal
blanca.trevino@itesm.mx
http://www.cdj.itesm.mx/secundaria/

Activity in the Promising Practices Program (click to view table) (click to hide table)

For more information about Promising Practices, contact Lara Maupin at lmaupin@character.org or 202-296-7743.

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