Changed and tinkered multiple times… Latest Link 11Ps Framework

Principle 1 Core values are defined, implemented, and embedded into school culture.

Core ethical Values Character strenght universal moral and ethical in nature supportive of democracy

Thought exercise

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• parents wanted to instill: service
• coworkers - patience
• students - curiosity
• me at my funeral - eulogy

Examine values individually and collectively

• Common language
• publicize
• assessing where values are not evident
• data to see if values are understood and applied.

Principle 2 - The school defines “character” comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and doing.

• judge what is right,
• care deeply about what is right,
• and then do what they believe to be right
• even in the face of pressure from without and temptation from within.”
• restorative justice
• See beyond themselves,
• Understand, examine, fill a need

Principle 3: The school uses a comprehensive, intentional, and proactive approach to develop character.

• Intentional
• Are adults living the core values?
• What guides your SEL?
• Building clubs into the school day.

Principle 4 - The school creates a caring community.

• Build a caring school through relationships
• In character ed it’s relationships relationships relationships
• Begin with adults
• Gary smalley animal personality survey
• book studies

Principle 5 - The school provides students with opportunities for moral action.

• Service learning -
• needs to have investigation
• kids have to be involved If you don’t have the 5, you can’t get above a 2.
  1. Research/Investigation
  2. Planning • Project has purpose or meaning; is real • Curriculum Integration/Instructional Strategy
  3. Action
  4. Reflection
  5. Sharing or Demonstrating knowledge gained Teachers have to believe that character ed is worth their time.

     Principle 6 - The school offers a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed.

• Teachers engaged in professional conversations.

  Principle 7 - The school fosters students’ self-motivation.

• Self-determination theory Ryan & Deci
• Intrinsic motivation

Principle 8 - All staff share the responsibility for developing, implementing and modeling character.

• All model good character and core values and help

Principle 9 - The school’s character initiative has shared leadership and long-range support for continuous improvement.

• “The real role of leadership in education is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control; creating a climate of possibility, and if you do that, people will rise to it and achieve things you did not anticipate and couldn’t have expected.” - Sir Ken Robinson

Principle 10 The school engages families and community as partners in the character initiative.

• involves families and community
• Parent Involvement Team (PIT Crew)

Principle 11 The school assesses its implementation of character education, its culture and climate, and the character growth of students on a

regular basis.

• how are you assessing how you’re school is doing? educ7620 implementation paper

Amy Johnston says that students should not be involved in the development of the 11 Principles