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BUILDING CHARACTER: Getting kids to high school, college and beyond! March 4, 2014

BUILDING CHARACTER: Getting kids to high school, college and beyond! March 4, 2014. CENTER CITY PCS BACKGROUND. BULIDING CHARACTER. Opened in the 2008-09SY 6 schools with 230 students/campus Neighborhood-based (naming) Staff converted from Catholic schools

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BUILDING CHARACTER: Getting kids to high school, college and beyond! March 4, 2014

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  1. BUILDING CHARACTER: Getting kids to high school, college and beyond!March 4, 2014

  2. CENTER CITY PCS BACKGROUND BULIDING CHARACTER • Opened in the 2008-09SY • 6 schools with 230 students/campus • Neighborhood-based (naming) • Staff converted from Catholic schools • In conversion, removed religion but kept the focus on character

  3. ORIGINAL CHARACTER PROGRAM BUILDING CHARACTER But what did keeping the focus on character mean? What did we have?

  4. BUILDING CHARACTER

  5. SOJOURNERS’ LIMITATIONS BUILDING CHARACTER What was wrong with SOJOURNERS?

  6. SOJOURNERS’ LIMITATIONS BUILDING CHARACTER It is a list of “things” we do but not a measure for what we were teaching our students, a strategy for our long-term goal to get them to college, or a reflection of our long-term goals.

  7. UNDERSTANDING WHAT DEFINES CHARACTER BUILDING CHARACTER How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character By Paul Tough The Duckworth Lab at UPENN https://sites.sas.upenn.edu/duckworth/pages/educators Character Lab at Harvard http://characterlab.org/character/

  8. OUR MATRIX FOR A SUCCESSFUL CHARACTER EDUCATION PROGRAM BUILDING CHARACTER POSITIVE SCHOOL CULTURE ENGAGED FAMILIES Character Education POSITIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE ACADEMIC SUCCESS

  9. START WITH ACADEMICS BUILDING CHARACTER From the Character Lab: Character + Academics = SUCCESS

  10. START WITH ACADEMICS BUILDING CHARACTER CURRICULUM, CURRICULUM, CURRICULUM

  11. START WITH ACADEMICS BUILDING CHARACTER • Teacher-created curriculum • Aligned to CCSS • Performance-based tasks • Collaborate with other school districts

  12. START WITH ACADEMICS BUILDING CHARACTER Spelling Bees, Geography Bees, and Science Fairs build “grit.” “Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?” NYTimes 2/10/13 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magazine/why-can-some-kids-handle-pressure-while-others-fall-apart.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=general&src=me

  13. ENGAGE PARENTS BUILDING CHARACTER • Parents… • Are critical to building character in students. • Have to be invested in what schools are doing and reiterate it at home. • Need to own and understand student performance so that they can support – and push – students at home. • Need to understand the language we use in schools.

  14. ENGAGE PARENTS BUILDING CHARACTER • Academic Parent Teacher Team (APTT) • Parents and teacher PARTNERSHIPS • Set goals together • Let parents know what’s going on in the classroom • http://www.ed.gov/oese-news/innovative-model-parent-teacher-partnerships

  15. BUILD A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE BUILDING CHARACTER You can only build positive school culture if there is a positive culture in every school classroom. Culture of your school = Culture of EACH classroom

  16. BUILD A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE BUILDING CHARACTER • No Nonsense Nurturer (NNN) • Highly effective teachers have high expectations for students • A focus on teachers’ “nurturing” strong relationships with students • Students are on-task, engaged • Positive narration, precise directions, nurturing relationships w/ students & families, individual consequences with class-wide rewards • Kids “listen” to adults who believe in them • Micro-moments and constructive responses

  17. BUILD A POSITIVE SCHOOL CULTURE BUILDING CHARACTER What’s going on in the classroom needs to be supported by what’s going on in the building. And kids, like everyone, need: Celebrations Rewards Honors

  18. BUILD A POSITIVE SCHOOL CULTURE BUILDING CHARACTER • Positive Behavior Intervention System (PBIS) • School-wide systems to define, teach, and support appropriate student behaviors • Model social behaviors and increase social competence • http://www.pbis.org/school/default.aspx

  19. WHAT’S NEXT BUILDING CHARACTER • Set goals for long-term student success • What high schools are we sending students on to? • Are the goals rigorous? • Are students successful when they get to high school? • Are students successful post-high school? • Weknow we’re doing well when • they’re with us but how are they • doing when they’re not?

  20. WHAT’S NEXT BUILDING CHARACTER • 2) Align our rhetoric with our goals • What are our core values? • Do the core values represent us? • What is our mission? • Does our mission accurately reflect our long-term goals for kids? • Where are our students now? Survey! • How will we measure success y-o-y? • Our brand is character education, now we need to make sure that is in everything we communicate.

  21. WHAT’S NEXT BUILDING CHARACTER • 3) Codify and disseminate our goals • Where is all of this information housed? • How are new staff members trained on our program? • What is the framework for teaching this to and sharing this with our staff? • How do we recruit staff who believe in and “fit” with this culture of character ed? • Whatever we do should not be held by a person or persons but rather, should be replicable by any new teacher or leader.

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