character education
Courage and Initiative
What is Character Education?
Duval County
Public Schools Character Education Objectives include:
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To
significantly decrease in-school and out-of-school suspensions, and incidents
of fighting, battery and intimidation among K - 12 students,
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To
significantly increase school attendance among students K - 12 and
participation in extracurricular activities among students in grades 6 - 12.
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Character Education Traits for 2007-08 School Year
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Month |
Character Trait |
August
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Responsibility and Attentiveness -
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- Responsibility: The quality of having moral, legal or mental accountability. Reliable.
Trustworthy.
- Attentiveness: Heedful; being mindful of another's speech, needs, etc.
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September |
Citizenship and Cooperation -
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- Citizenship: The status of being a member of a
community.
- Cooperation: The action of working
for the common benefit.
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October |
Fairness -
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- Fairness: Marked by impartiality and honesty; free from self-interest,
prejudice or favoritism.
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November |
Patriotism -
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- Patriotism: Love for or devotion to one's country.
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December |
Kindness and Caring -
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- Kindness: A kind deed; the quality of state of being kind.
- Caring: To feel interest or concern
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January |
Courage and Initiative -
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- Courage: Mental or moral strength.
- Initiative: Taking the first step.
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February |
Respect and Tolerance -
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- Respect: Showing regard for the worth of someone or
something.
- Tolerance: Respecting the individual differences, views and beliefs of
others.
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March |
Honesty and Trustworthiness -
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- Honesty: Adherance to the facts; fairness and
straightforwardness of conduct.
- Trustworthiness: Worthy of confidence.
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April |
Self-control
- Exercising restraint over one's impulses, emotions, desires.
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May |
Patience and Perseverance
- Patience:
Capacity, habit or fact of bearing pains or trials calmly or without
complaint; not hasty or impetuous.
- Perseverance: Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief
or purpose; steadfastness. Continued pursuit of any enterprise once begun.
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Learn More About Character, Kindness, Ethics
and More!
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
http://www.actsofkindness.org
Do Something
http://www.dosomething.org
Project Wisdom: Helping student make wiser
choices.
http://www.projectwisdom.com/
Tolerance.org: Fight hate and promote tolerance.
http://www.tolerance.org
Southern Poverty Law Center: Teaching Tolerance
http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp
Laws of Life Essay Contest
http://www.lawsoflife.org
Decision Making and Ethics
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision
Character Counts
http://www.charactercounts.org
Character Education Library Lists
Each list features a brief summary of the book, the book reading level,
Lexile score (for most books) and character traits central to the story.
Each list is offered as a .pdf file. You
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