COMMUNITY OF CARING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MANUAL CONTEST

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Submit Implementation Strategies

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TEACHER RESOURCES

-Action Plan Template
-Classroom Culture Continuum

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We are happy to announce we are returning to beautiful Salt Lake City, UT for the 27th Annual National Conference in 2011.


The 2010 State Schools of Character Award Ceremony and a 2011 Utah State Schools of Character: Review of Program Guidelines and Technical Assistance in Application Preparation Meeting are both held April 16, 2010. Click here to RSVP or for more information.

ATTENTION ALL UTAH SCHOOLS! Submit an innovative character education practice to be recognized at our Awards Ceremony April 16, 2010.


SSOCSSOC - Utah State Schools of Character Awards

 

NSOCNSOC - CEP's National Schools of Character Awards


2009 Utah State Schools of Character Awards Ceremony Reflection


tree planting
Radix Elementary students in Willamstown, NJ, plant a dogwood tree in the school's butterfly garden in memory of the Virginia Tech tragedy.


Click here to view the future home of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring!


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Ms Shriver and kidsEunice Kennedy Shriver
1921-2009 | Founder of Community of Caring

To learn more about the life and legacy of Eunice Kennedy Shriver,
please visit www.EuniceKennedyShriver.org.
To view a tribute booklet, please click here.


Community of Caring: Character Education That Works

Caring | Respect | responsibility | trust | family

The University of Utah is proud to be the site of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring. Community of Caring is built around five core values that empower young people to be responsible and caring members of a community: Caring, Respect, Responsibility, Trust, and Family. These five values serve as a foundation and umbrella for school activities and initiatives in Community of Caring schools. Our schoolwide, K-12 program helps schools become caring, respectful, responsible, trustworthy, and family-oriented communities. In doing so, we put children, teachers, and school staff at the center of education, weaving the core values into every aspect of school life and the existing curriculum.

Community of Caring is the program that caring schools select. The Community of Caring program is an evidence-based, nationally-recognized character education program in over 1,400 schools in 46 states nation-wide and in Canada.

"In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness."

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder

 

National and State School of Character

Has your school or district developed an outstanding character education initiative? The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring is proud to sponsor along with Character Education Partnership the National and State School of Character awards.  Each year Utah schools are recognized on a state and national level for their character education initiatives.  Please mark your calendars!  The 2011 application deadline is December 1, 2010.  The grant application and guidelines will be coming soon!

Click here for the 2011 information...



 

FEATURED ARTICLE: "State Recognizes Innovative Special Needs Program in Franklin Lakes"

NEW! Click here to print out a certificate you can use to honor students who have gone above and beyond to create a Community of Caring.
Want it in a word document format? Click here.
Click here for a postcard you can send home to parents to acknowledge a student who has demonstrated one of the core values.


Articles & Letters

Education Week: Social-Skills Programs
Found to Yield Gains in Academic Subjects by Debra Viadero


Education Week: How Measuring School Climate Can Improve Your School by Jonathan Cohen and Terry Pickeral


Yellow Hands Drums


Community of Caring EndorsEments & Recognitions

Community of Caring Awards

 

Why do schools adopt Community of Caring?

Community of Caring...

  • fosters character and citizenship development
  • improves school attendance and academic performance
  • improves school climate and creates a caring school community
  • fosters greater acceptance of diversity, including students with intellectual disabilities
  • creates safer school environments by preventing bullying and other forms of violence
  • prevents teen pregnancy with a youth development focus
  • reduces tobacco, drug and alcohol use
  • helps implement school reform

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