Living the Promise of Your Core Values

presented August 16, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. ET

Presenter: Dara Feldman, Director of Education, The Virtues Project

Start your year off right by creating a strong foundation that will empower not just your students, but you, your colleagues and school community to thrive. Use the power of language to bring out the best in yourself and others. By focusing on CEP’s Principle 1 you will learn meaningful strategies to identify core values and ways to live them on a daily basis. Participants will:

  • Use a variety of strategies to select core values and use them as guiding principles
  • Use virtues language in conscious, structured ways to acknowledge, educate/guide and correct.
  • Recognize teachable moments without shaming and blaming, but naming virtues
  • Honor the whole child and enhance school unity.

Resources:
1. Handout Packet
2. Teachers Are Like Mirrors (video)
3. Make School Discipline Easier with Core Values (video)
4. 1-2-3 Dancing Expectations (video)
5. The Power of Words (video)
6. Speaking the Language of Virtues (video)
7. Civil Mission (video)
8. Telling It Like It Is: Youth Speak Out on the School-to-Prison Pipeline (PDF)
9. The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action – A Report of the Commission on the Whole Child (PDF)
10. The Virtues Project (Do a Virtues Pick)

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