Character Focus

Shaping Character in Brookings

        The mission of Shaping Character in the Brookings elementary schools is to work together through a partnership among school, home and community to provide a safe environment where students will use the virtues of respect, responsibility, perseverance, caring, self-discipline, citizenship, honesty, courage and fairness to be productive community members.

Objectives:

• To educate and partner with teachers, parents, youth organization leaders, and community members to understand the need to teach character-building traits.
• To improve the school climate by enriching interpersonal communication skills between staff and students in order to build a safe environment that promotes good character.
• To help students, teachers and parents become more conscious, committed and competent decision-makers in their thinking, feelings and behavior.
• To provide educators with methods, strategies, and curricula to promote good character via a purposeful and pervasive program.
• To help students internalize virtues that foster intrinsic motivation and success at meeting academic expectations.
• To provide students with outreach service project opportunities.
• To develop a proactive community coalition that sustains the momentum of character-building efforts.
• To assess the impact of character education by utilizing various assessment tools.

Expected Outcomes:

• Enriched relationships with self and others.
• Increased skills for ethical decision-making behaviors.
• Enhanced support for individuals and families.
• Improved awareness of community resources that help build character.

Specific behavioral goals:
        To increase and promote an environment which is conducive to:

• Respect
• Responsibility
• Perseverance
• Caring
• Self-Discipline
• Citizenship
• Honesty
• Courage
• Fairness

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