Character Education Leadership Program for Public Schools in Mexico

Consists on adapting 3 english initiatives that have shown efficacy in the last decades aimed at schools leaders:

Leadership Academy in Character Education
The Primed Model
Cultivating Virtue in Leaders Project

As a result, we intend to accomplish two outcomes in the school’s leaders:

Personal transformation

in a way they cultivate the virtues needed to lead character-stregth interventions in their school.

Knowledge and competence gaining

needed for the implementation of character education effective practices in an intentional and strategic way, that help transform the schools into communities that cultivate the moral and civic character of its members.

The theory of change:

1

School leaders develop SL virtues
2

They learn how to create and lead schools of character
3

These leaders train and empower their respective staff to collaboratively create schools of
character
4

Together they implement effective character education practices within their respective
schools
5

As a result, the school climate improves
6

The character of students is enhanced

What do we mean by character?

The way a person is based on a group of capacities and dispositions to act good freelyc through their ideas, emotions, abilities and virtues.

”Good character consists on comprehend (head), care (heart) and practice (hands) based on the core values.

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The project is financed by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and organized by a team of investigators from Universidad Panamericana and Universidad de Navarra.
As well as the collaboration from Secretaría de Educación de Jalisco and the Center for
Character and Citizenship of Missouri - St. Louis University.
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