Resources

Here are some useful links to resources to guide you on your way.

[|www.character.org] - Character Education Partnership
 * **11 Principles** ||
 * [|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 the same core values that guide the education of students** ||
 * [|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 good character** ||