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Principle 1: Promotes core ethical values and supportive performance values as the foundation of good character.
Principle 2: Defines "character" comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior.
Principle 3: Uses a comprehensive, intentional, and proactive approach to character development.
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
Principle 7: Strives to foster students' self motivation.
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.
Principle 11: Evaluates the character of the school, the school staff's functioning as character educators, and the extent to which students manifest
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