Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
1250 N. Pitt Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-1403
(703) 549-9110
Fax: (703) 549-3891
Use this site's search feature to find useful material on "character" and
"character education."
California University of Pennsylvania
Character Education Institute
Opened in January 1995, in response to a report from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education urging the system's universities to give increased attention to values during the 1990s.
Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs
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.
Center for the Advancement of Ethics and
Character
100 Ways to Bring Character Education to Life
605 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
phone: (617) 353-3262, fax: (617) 353-3924
Character Counts
Character Counts is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian coalition of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations
working to advance character education by teaching the Six Pillars of Character:
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.
Offers a great set of links to dozens of organizations
throughout the world which promote character education.
Character Development Group
PO Box 9211
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-9211
(919) 967-2110
Fax: (919) 967-2139
E-mail: respect96@aol.com
Character Development Group is one of the country's leading providers of
character education staff development resources. It includes the Character
Education Series of books, curricula, and workshops, all developed by Dr.
Philip Fitch Vincent's, one of the world's leading experts in the field. The
company also distributes the best-selling Developing Character in Students:
A Primer for Teachers, Parents and Communities, and 19 other publications
used extensively in schools throughout the U.S.
Character
Education Institute
8918 Tesoro Drive
San Antonio, TX 78217
(800) 284-0499
Fax: (210) 829-1729
This organization distributes the Character Education Curriculum which is designed
to help pre-kindergarten through middle school students build self-esteem, avoid
substance abuse and negative peer pressure, understand and accept diversity
in society, use self-discipline to achieve goals, and develop critical thinking
skills.
Character
Education Partnership
918 Sixteenth St. N.W., Suite 501
Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: (800) 988-8081
National umbrella
for all character education organizations. Resource lists, bulletin board,
very useful website.
Character
Education: Teaching Kids to Care
University of Illinois Extension
The Communitarian
Network
2130 H Street, NW, Suite 703
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: (202) 994-7997
A network of individuals and organizations banded together to strengthen the
moral, social, and political environment.
Community
of Caring, Inc.
1350 New York Ave., NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 393-1250
Fax: (202) 737-1937
Community of Caring combines teacher training, values discussions, teen forums,
parental involvement and community service with already existing school programs
to address early sexual development, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, and
school dropout. It stresses the relationship between the decisions teenagers
make in life and individual value systems by emphasizing the importance of
respect, responsibility, trust, caring, and the family.
Educators
for Social Responsibility (ESR)
23 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(800) 370-2515
Offers instructional materials and teacher training on character education,
conflict resolution, and violence prevention.
Ethics Resource Center
1747 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 737-2258
The Ethics Resource Center produces video-based programs to help teachers
develop and reinforce positive values and character traits in students, including
What Should You Do?: Deciding What's Right, a program for grades 4-6; and
Not For Sale: Ethics in the American Workplace, which offers students an introduction
to the relationship between personal morality, professional responsibility,
and business ethics.
Heartwood Institute
12300 Perry Highway
Wexford, PA 15090
(412) 934-1777
Fax: (412) 934-0050
425 N. Craig St., Suite 302
Pittsburgh, PA 15213; (800) 432-7810.
This institute fosters moral literacy and ethical judgment by providing an
anchor for children in universal virtues common to the world's cultures and
traditions. Courage, loyalty, justice, respect, hope, honesty and love are
presented in quality, read-aloud, multi-cultural stories which touch the heart
and develop within the child a strong basis for moral character and development.
International
Center for Character Education (ICCE)
The International Center for Character Education emphases how effective character
education programs can... increase student achievement, ... reduce violence,
increase peaceful resolution of conflict by using " The Four Pillars
of Democracy: home, school, church, community."
Contact: Tel: 619-260-5980 E-mail icce@sandiego.edu
Jefferson Center for Character Education
2700 East Foothill
Suite 202
Pasadena, CA 91107
(818) 792-8130
Fax: (818) 792-8364
The Jefferson Center develops and provides curricula, programs, and publications
that teach core values and ethical decision-making skills that foster good
conduct, personal and civic responsibility, academic achievement, and work-force
readiness.
Josephson
Institute of Ethics
4640 Admiralty Way
Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 306-1868
Fax: (310) 827-1864
A nationwide nonprofit initiative to support nonpartisan, nonsectarian character
education. This institute publishes Ethics: Easier Said Than Done, December
1992, issues 19 and 20, focusing on developing moral values in youth. They
coordinate the Character Counts Coalition, a long-term, grassroots campaign
to combat violence, dishonesty, and irresponsibility through its network of
over 30 organizations devoted to the education and training of young people.
Peace Learning Center (PLC)
6040 DeLong Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46254
Phone: (317) 327-7144
Fax (317) 327-7312
Indiana PLC provides a variety of conflict management trainings and services empowering our community to discover responsible ways to deal with conflict.
