Character Education
Why is character education important?
Focusing on four aspects of character:
Moral Character The qualities that help us be our best self, including trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
Performance Character The qualities that help us do our best work, including self-discipline, diligence, organization, and confidence.
Intellectual Character The skills and traits needed to be a motivated and committed learner, critical thinker, and creative problem solver, including curiosity, intellectual autonomy, humility, and open-mindedness.
Civic Character The skills and traits needed to be an ethical, engaged citizen who demonstrates leadership, teamwork, civility, and creates positive change in their community.
Carbon Valley Character Traits
Carbon Valley Academy K-8 believes in the importance of character education and implements a comprehensive approach to infusing character education and development throughout all subject areas and within the school culture. The character education program also embeds the School’s deep connection to the social and emotional wellness of the students. The SEL program is embedded in the character development program and reinforced through the PBIS model for behavior, rewards, and natural, correlated consequences. Standards for behavior are clearly established and enforced. Teachers provide both direct and indirect instruction and focus on a character trait for each month. Naturally implementing character trait education into daily core curriculum allows for deep conversations between students and the adults in their lives about character and the effect they each have on peers. Each month a different trait is explicitly taught and modeled so that students will understand how to exhibit desired behaviors. A year-long calendar includes the trait, a definition and research-based activities and resources to explicitly teach them.
August-COMMUNITY
September: RESPECT
October: RESPONSIBILITY
November: PATRIOTISM
December: COMPASSION
January: WORK ETHIC
February: FRIENDSHIP
March: HONESTY
April: PERSEVERANCE
May: COURAGE