Eleven Principles of the Character Education Partnership

1. Promotes core ethical values as well as supportive performance values as the foundation of good character.

2. Defines "character" to include, thinking, feeling, and behavior.

3. Uses a comprehensive, intentional and proactive approach to character development.

4. Creates a caring school community.

5. Provides students with opportunities for moral action.

6. Includes a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed.

7. Strives to foster students’ self motivation.

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.

9. Fosters shared moral leadership and long range support for the character education initiative.

10. Engages families and community members as partners in the character-building effort.

11. Assesses the character of the school, the school staff’s functioning as character educators, and the extent to which students manifest good character.