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Bonner
Center for Character Education and Citizenship
Bonner Center for Character Education and Citizenship The
Bonner Center is located in the Kremen School of Education
and Human Development of California State University, Fresno.
The Center was formed in 1997 to promote character education
in the Central Valley. Its activities include bringing nationally
recognized speakers to the Fresno area, organizing forums
on character education and professional ethics, coordinating
a variety of character award programs, and providing small
grants for local public schools and teachers.
The
Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character (CAEC)
The CAEC is committed to providing educators with the resources
necessary to foster the development of strong character
and good judgment in students. This site offers many character
education resources for teachers, administrators, students,
parents, and scholars/researchers. Articles about character
education, lesson plans, and reading lists can be easily
downloaded from the website.
The
Center for the 4th &
5th Rs
The Center serves as a regional, state, and national resource
in character education. A growing national movement, character
education is essential to the task of building a moral society
and developing schools which are civil and caring communities.
Character
Counts!
The purpose of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition is to fortify
the lives of America’s young people with consensus ethical
values called the “Six Pillars of Character.” These values,
which transcend divisions of race, creed, politics, gender
and wealth, are: trustworthiness, respect,
responsibility, fairness, caring and
citizenship.
Character
Education Partnership
The Character Education Partnership (CEP) is a nonpartisan
coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to
developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation's
youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and
responsible society. Our members hold that core ethical
values such as respect, responsibility, and honesty can
both be a matter of consensus and a model for our youth.
We are committed to the practical implementation of character
education throughout the learning process.
NC Character Education Partnership (1996-2001)
Formerly housed at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the North
Carolina Character Education Partnership (NCCEP) developed
a model to promote the development of character and citizenship
through community consensus, curriculum and climate. This
model and support materials are available to assist in the
integration of character education throughout a school.
NC
Center for the Prevention of School Violence
Established in 1993 as one of the nation's first state school
safety centers, the North
Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention - Center for the Prevention of School Violence
serves as a resource center and "think tank" for
efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth
development. The Center focuses on ensuring that schools
function so that every student who attends does so in environments
that are safe and secure, free of fear and conducive to
learning. Positive youth development efforts are emphasized
as the Center focuses beyond the school into the community
and works in support of youth-serving programs and agencies
which target the development of attitudes, behaviors, and
conditions that enable youth to grow and become productive
members of their communities.
The
North Carolina Center for Character Education
The North Carolina Center for Character Education is a on-profit
organization dedicated to providing resources and information
to help nurture positive character traits in today's youth.
We have resources available for educators, parents, and
business and community leaders.
Development
Studies Center
DSC, a non-profit organization which started in 1980, it
has developed programs and research to foster children’s
intellectual, social, and ethical development. One of our
primary goals is to support educators to create “caring
communities of learners” in schools. Our vision of a caring
community of learners is a place where adults and children
practice such core values as kindness, respect for others,
and responsibility, and where children learn important subject
matter and develop their intellectual capacity.
International
Center for Character Education
The Center’s purpose is to: enable school personnel, parents,
teacher educators, faith community members, youth providers,
and concerned individuals to come together to study, discuss,
learn, practice, reflect, and write on issues, programs,
problems and promises regarding the character education
of children and youth.
National
Service Learning Clearinghouse
The NSLC staff welcomes you to the Clearinghouse. We are
here to provide you with information services and technical
assistance. Please ask us if you need help with academic
research, program startup, assessment and evaluation, term
papers, downloading online documents, or anything else regarding
service-learning.
North
Carolina Civic Education Consortium
The Civic Education Consortium resides at the School of
Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. CEC unites community partners, educators and children
and youth to revitalize civic education for young North
Carolinians. The Consortium works toward a future in which
all North Carolina children and youth become enthusiastic,
involved citizens endowed with the knowledge, skills and
confidence to participate in democratic life.
Search
Institute
The Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian
organization whose mission is to advance the well-being
of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and
promoting its application. To accomplish this mission, the
institute generates, synthesizes, and communicates new knowledge,
convenes organizational and community leaders, and works
with state and national organizations.
The Southern
Poverty Law Center
The Center is a nonprofit organization that combats hate,
intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.
Its programs include the Intelligence Project, Teaching
Tolerance and Tolerance.org.
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