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This product is a five hour self study course that helps the participant gain an understanding on the importance of character education in our schools and provides insights, ideas, strategies, and methods on how to incorporate character education in a school curriculum.

Based on 15 years of experience in implementing programs on ethics and character education in the schools, I can identify four of the most important issues that we must address in any program aimed at cultivating good character in our young people.

This webinar is for those who wish to deepen and improve conversations about SEL or Character Education in their schools and between parents and teachers and students.

This webinar by Maurice Elias was produced by CASEL on April 7, 2016 and is for those who wish to deepen and improve conversations about SEL or Character Education in their schools and between parents and teachers and students.

We can not overlook the importance of character education in our school programs.

Character Education Partnership (CEP) National non-profit organization that promotes character education in schools.

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On the other hand, if the concrete way this school does «have to do with God» is ordered to education for ministerial functions, is it not then in practice using «having to do with God» for a further, ulterior purpose («educating for ministerial functions»), thus corrupting its proper theological character («having to do with God for God's own sake»)?

It is through education, not only in schools but also in homes and in other institutions and by a variety of agencies, that individual character is formed and social patterns are» propagated.

Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

In an eerie foreshadowing of today's debates over character education, journalists warned that the family could not do it alone: the schools had to help.

In such schools and elsewhere the supradenominational and supranational character of theological education is also significantly indicated by the increasing enrollment of students and the employment of teachers from other areas of Christendom.

Also see Stanley Hauerwas, «The Family as a School for Character,» Religious Education 80 (Spring 1985): 272 - 85, for a similar analysis of the way this reasoning about the family in character formation «can too easily turn the family into an idolatrous institutioCharacter,» Religious Education 80 (Spring 1985): 272 - 85, for a similar analysis of the way this reasoning about the family in character formation «can too easily turn the family into an idolatrous institutiocharacter formation «can too easily turn the family into an idolatrous institution.»

«Character education» programs in public schools come in for a drubbing by Alfie Kohn, writing in Phi Delta Kappan, a publication for professional educators.

In a statement seen by The Telegraph, a diocese spokesman said: «To maintain the clear Catholic character of Catholic schools the Bishops of England and Wales have stated that the posts of head teacher, deputy head teacher and head of religious education are to be filled by baptised and practising Catholics.»

This year, there are more than 4,200 schools in almost 600 school districts across the country where kids will be introduced to the game of golf along with character education.

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Character Education: Code 37-13-181 (1999) allows school districts to develop and implement a comprehensive character education program in gradeCharacter Education: Code 37-13-181 (1999) allows school districts to develop and implement a comprehensive character education program in gradeEducation: Code 37-13-181 (1999) allows school districts to develop and implement a comprehensive character education program in gradecharacter education program in gradeeducation program in grades K - 12.

Character Education: The Missouri Violence Prevention Curriculum Framework (2008) recommends that character education be taught in schools; especially focusing on responsibility andCharacter Education: The Missouri Violence Prevention Curriculum Framework (2008) recommends that character education be taught in schools; especially focusing on responsibility andEducation: The Missouri Violence Prevention Curriculum Framework (2008) recommends that character education be taught in schools; especially focusing on responsibility andcharacter education be taught in schools; especially focusing on responsibility andeducation be taught in schools; especially focusing on responsibility and respect.

requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the curriculum.

Codes 53A - 1a - 107 (2003) and 53A -13-109 (2004) allow local school boards and administrators to provide training as needed in the imparting of civic and character education.

Character Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticCharacter Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticEducation: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticCharacter Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticEducation (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticcharacter education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticeducation programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democratic society.

Character Education: KRS 156.095 requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the cuCharacter Education: KRS 156.095 requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the cuEducation: KRS 156.095 requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the cucharacter education throughout the cueducation throughout the curriculum.

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

There is always an anxiety when people talk about character education in the public school context.

There was a character education movement in traditional public schools for years, but, apparently, that kind of curriculum didn't seem to change the dynamic that it was intended to improve.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive oEducation Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive oeducation programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

So far 47 states and the District of Columbia have sought federal funds for character education programs in schools.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is today publishing the names, locations and religious characters of all Free School applications from the «ninth wave», after the Department for Education (DfE) provided the information in response to a Freedom of Information request submitted by the BHA earlier this year.

In its decision, the EC has opaquely said, «After careful analysis of all relevant elements, we have come to the conclusion that the UK has provided sufficient clarification as regards its narrow interpretation of Sections 58 and 60 [the relevant law], which merely enables the faith - based education and is limited to ensure the maintenance of the religious character of the school.

«Hearing their stories, looking at the work they've done to promote character education and identify the values they want to embed in their schools and seeing how positive they are about this area of their school life has confirmed to me that focusing on character sits alongside gaining knowledge.

In further signs of the creeping influence of the Church in the education system, a Church of England - led academy trust in Newcastle is set to assume control of four schools with no religious character after it was announced that they will soon be merging with a Church of England primary schooIn further signs of the creeping influence of the Church in the education system, a Church of England - led academy trust in Newcastle is set to assume control of four schools with no religious character after it was announced that they will soon be merging with a Church of England primary schooin the education system, a Church of England - led academy trust in Newcastle is set to assume control of four schools with no religious character after it was announced that they will soon be merging with a Church of England primary schooin Newcastle is set to assume control of four schools with no religious character after it was announced that they will soon be merging with a Church of England primary school.

The Central New York Community Foundation recently awarded a $ 24,000 grant to the Positivity Project to expand it's character education training programs in the Syracuse City School District.

The Department for Education (DfE) has appealed a ruling by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) which said that it must publish a list of all proposals to establish Free Schools as part of the first two «waves» (i.e. to open in 2011 or 2012), giving their religious character.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

In the maiden issue of the Journal of Character Education, a team of researchers reports on a study of the relative academic performance of schools in California that described themselves as having substantial character education componentIn the maiden issue of the Journal of Character Education, a team of researchers reports on a study of the relative academic performance of schools in California that described themselves as having substantial character education coCharacter Education, a team of researchers reports on a study of the relative academic performance of schools in California that described themselves as having substantial character education coEducation, a team of researchers reports on a study of the relative academic performance of schools in California that described themselves as having substantial character education componentin California that described themselves as having substantial character education cocharacter education coeducation components.

And in 1996 the president gave the movement the ultimate blessing when he said, in his State of the Union address, «I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship.»

Earlier this year, at the Hyde School, a private high school in Bath, Maine, dedicated to «family - based character education,» I witnessed a confrontation in an 11th - grade honors English class the likes of which, it is safe to say, few educators or scholars have everSchool, a private high school in Bath, Maine, dedicated to «family - based character education,» I witnessed a confrontation in an 11th - grade honors English class the likes of which, it is safe to say, few educators or scholars have everschool in Bath, Maine, dedicated to «family - based character education,» I witnessed a confrontation in an 11th - grade honors English class the likes of which, it is safe to say, few educators or scholars have ever seen.

This public anomie was captured in these words from Sanford McDonnell, chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas and chair of the Character Education Partnership (CEP), a national umbrella group that provides coordination, encouragement, and support to schools:

The school director, Karen Bohlin, is a leading teacher - scholar in the character education movement and was previously the director of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston Uncharacter education movement and was previously the director of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston UnCharacter at Boston University.

Thomas Lickona, the head of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (the fourth and fifth being respect and responsibility) at the State University of New York at Cortland and a leading figure in the field, says that two - thirds of the states» schools are now required either by legislative mandate or by administrative regulation to implement programs in character education.

The U.S. Department of Education has been awarding grants in the field since 1995; the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 established the new Partnership in Character Education Program, which gives $ 25 million annually to schools.

The key, says new headmaster Thomas Nammack, is that «the school is working on character education in many ways, on many levels, all at the same time.»

Ms. Leiphart's morning meeting is part of the school's character education program, initiated in 1995 and motivated by the merger of three schools into one, out of concern for the social skills of the students and in response to the post-Columbine awareness that schools should give greater consideration to students» social needs.

This essay explores these questions through the study of character education in six schools.

The researchers struck a note of modest hopefulness, but cautioned that «no evidence exists for a broader relationship that spans a range of character education approaches in a large sample of schools.»

Former headmaster Peter Greer arrived in 1992 and soon after convened a group of teachers, staff, parents, and alumni to write a guiding statement for the school's character education program.

CEP describes character education not as an «add - on» to the curriculum, but as «a different way of teaching; it is a comprehensive approach that promotes core values in all phases of school life and permeates the entire school culture.»

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

CEP has also developed quality standards to aid schools in evaluating character education programs and curricula.