Project 2: Character Counts Too Team

Campus Character/ Culture Meetings

As an administrator it is important to build and sustain a healthy school culture that promotes caring, trustworthiness, fairness, respect, responsibility and citizenship (five pillars of the character club).  Within the Character Counts Team I collaborated with teachers, counselors, and administrators to create activities and campaigns that would encourage our students to be considerate of others embrace of the concept of a school community.

In order to encourage students to respect their classmates, their teachers, administrators, and school staff, the Character Counts Team has put together month campaigns that encourage students to participate in their communities by signing up for community service opportunities, participating in book drives (donating new books to local libraries), school humanitarian events (toothbrushes for Cambodia), and making personal promises to disengage in inappropriate behavior such as profanity use.  I have participated within each of these activities by encouraging students to donate, commit their time to helping others, reducing their use of profanity, and working hard to maintain good grades.

Over the course of the school year the Character Counts Team has worked to make the school a more effective place to learn for students by teaching them to recognize how they behave and treat others daily.  Throughout the year school staff selects and rewards students that exemplify the pillars (mentioned above) of the Character Counts Team.

Reflection

By participating in the Character Counts Team I learned that in order to encourage students to develop positive behavioral habits, the school must develop campaigns and activities that reinforce the importance of positive behaviors on campus.  In addition, the staff must support culture-building events that will enhance student achievement on campus.  I feel that these activities can help build and sustain a positive school culture by recognizing students who make a difference and encourage others to make positive choices.  Next year I would like to take on a broader role by developing more activities that remind students that character is an essential part of human development.

Supporting Documents:

Replacement Words For Profanity

Anti-Profanity Campaign and Contest

CPSEL’s Addressed:

CPSEL Standard 1

Facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community.

• 1.2 Plan and implement activities around the vision

CPSEL Standard 2

Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.

• 2.1 Develop school culture and ensure equity

CPSEL Standard 5

Modeling a personal code of ethics and developing professional leadership capacity.

• 5.1 Maintain ethical standards of professionalism
• 5.3 Sustain professional commitment and effort

Understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.