For more than a decade, the Center’s purposes have been and are:
- To foster the character development of children and youth;
- To serve teacher educators, students in teacher education programs, K-12 teachers, administrators, counselors, parents and caregivers who desire to participate in the character development of children and youth;
- To promote among the young and those who work with them the development of life skills necessary for a good/productive personal and social life such as, reasoning skills, emotional skills, social skills and positive character traits including respect, responsibility, courage, perseverance, honesty, fairness, caring, civility, and citizenship.
Specialist Certifcate in Character Development
The Center offers an online certificate program for educators who want to become certified character educators.
2008 Conference - June 30 & July 1
Creating Safe Schools
Teacher Educators - Call for Proposals
Creating safe schools that are caring, civil and challenging requires curriculum and instructional strategies that help students learn alternatives to violence, and help adults and students create a school and home environment that is peaceful and conducive to nonviolent attitudes and behaviors. The conference will include the following topics:
- social-emotional skills
- violence prevention
- peer mediation
- conflict resolution
- anger management
- involving students in leadership roles
- empathy and courage
- service learning
- creating a safe and caring school culture
Character Matters
Essay Contest
The Center offers an annual essay contest called “Character Matters” for students in grades 4 to 12.
Resources
The Center offers educators the use of programs, projects, units, and lesson plans in its resource file.
Partnerships
Currently the Center is engaged in partnerships with San Diego Unified School District, San Diego County Office of Education, Volunteer San Diego, Shinnyo-en Foundation and Area 3 schools
Newsbriefs
Providing updates on resources, information, events and news.
Consultant services
The Center staff has contacts with many local and national character educators, teachers, and administrators with exemplary character education programs, who can help schools and school districts implement, maintain, and evaluate character education efforts.
Contact us:
Ed DeRoche, Ph. D., Director, deroche@sandiego.edu
619-260-2250
CJ Moloney, M.Ed., Coordinator, cmoloney@sandiego.edu
619-260-2250
