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        Principle 1: Promotes core ethical values and supportive performance values as the foundation of good character.
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        Principle 4: Creates a caring school community.
        Principle 5: Provides students with opportunities for moral action.
        Principle 6: Includes a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed
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        Principle 8: Engages the school staff as a learning and moral community that shares responsibility for character education and attempts to adhere to it
        Principle 9: Fosters shared moral leadership and long range support of the character education initiative.
        Principle 10: Engages families and community members as partners in the character-building effort.
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