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What Should Be the Role of Community in Character Edvcation? by Marvin W. Berkowitz, Philip Fitch Vincent and Linda McKay Abstract Two recent character education initiatives that reflect an understanding of the relevance and power of the community outside the school walls are described In this article. Ten general recommendations for incorporating community elements into a school-based character education Initiative are presented. The authors conclude that character educators should pay attention to the broad community to increase the effectiveness of their initiatives. education has a long and varied history, dating to colonial (haracter times in the United States,’ but It can even be traced at least as far back as ancient Greece.2 Wherever people have been concerned with how formal lessons and schooling can contribute to the development of social, emotional and moral characteristics in the youth of their society, character education has been an issue. Socrates died for his resolute dedication to “character education” of the youth of Athens. Nevertheless, character education is presently as popular and frequent as 4 ~ Vol. 22, No. 2 ever. It is being implemented in individual classrooms, throughout schools, in entire school districts, and even across large urban regions and entire states. It is also being implemented in varied forms and through diverse processes. As the research evidence comes in, it is clear 3 that quality character education is effective in promoting a broad range of positive character outcomes in students.4 Quality character education includes shared governance, an explicit school-wide emphasis on character, and the promotion of a positive school culture. When implemented fully, such initiatives promote prosocial attitudes and behaviors, moral reasoning development, an avoidance of undesirable risk behaviors, bonding to school, and improved academic achievement. However, there is often the temptation to implement in a more limited fashion, such as omitting stakeholder participation or avoiding staff development. In such cases, the desired effects are less likely to occur. There is also the obvious challenge of finding the varied resources (e.g., time, funding) to make such an initia- tive work. In this day of focus on academic standards, many school leaders shy away from taking on the challenge of character education for fear that it will detract from their academic mission. Research, however, suggests that educators in schools and classrooms of character enhance academic motivation and performance. One of the common strands in character education has been community. However, what is meant by community and how it is incorporated in character education is usually more limited than what is typically meant by community in general discussions of education. Despite this common focus on building community in schools and classrooms in order to foster character development in students, there has been a substantial neglect of the broader communities in which schools are located. If students related the positive features of their classroom or school was exempt from virtue because it wa not part of the immediate school corn munity. Related areas of education and chih development, such as drug prevention have recognized the power of th broader community context in promot ing child and adolescent development Interventions are designed to g beyond the walls of the school and t incorporate diverse communit: resources, such as mass media and la~ enforcement. “In general, the effect obtained from these interventions ten to last longer than school program alone...and, for some [drugs], they prc duce large effects.”4 If the effects of drug prevention prc grams are strengthened by couplln~ school-based interventions with corn munity interventions, then it seem likely that character education prograr effects can be significantly magnifie by incorporating diverse communit communities to their neighborhood communities, then the general neglect of the role of the broad community in education would not be a problem. However, It is clear that this does not occur. Power and his colleagues report a telling incident in one Just Community high school. In this case, the school had developed to the point that students had developed expectations against theft within the school, based on expectations of trust among school members. But they were reticent to act against a student who was caught breaking Into a home in the neighborhood during his lunch period because it was not part of “the community,” which for them was limited to their immediate school communityt2 The school was understood as deserving of moral treatment, but the neighborhood What isthorocter Education? Character education Is the com- posite of those aspects of schoolIng that have an impact on the development of character In students. Character Is the set of psychological characteristics of an individual that makes the person better able to understand, care about, and do that which Is morally right. Prominent aspects of school that have an impact on character are the behavior of adults in the school, peer and adult culture, the governance structure of the school, the schooFs explicit missIon, the curriculum, anddiscipline policies and strateg1es.~ The School Pub~cRelations Journal ~ resources. Indeed, some character edu- with local school districts, the St. Louis cation initiatives are already moving in Post-Dispatch, and all metropolitan that direction. police departments on a monthly student character award program, called “Do the Right Thing.” To date over 6,000 young people have been nominated for this recognition. Local businesses, such as Bank of America and Southwestern Bell, have a The LouisCharacterplus is a 12-year-old initiative regionalin in!St. offered financial support to establish an tiative. The Characterplus mission academy to train school principals in states that creating and sustaining a character education. The University of productive approach to character edu- Missouri-St. Louis has also collaborated cation requires a partnership between on this project, as has Webster the home, school and the broader com- University. (The first author is the inaumunity. In the St. Louis region, more gural Sanford N. McDonnell Professor than 30 public school districts are of Character Education at UMSL and involved in the large-scale community- contributes much of his time to wide response to character education. Characterplus initiatives, including A project of the Cooperating School funding and supervising a second charDistricts of Greater St. Louis, acter education academy for princiCharacterplus integrates character edu- pals.) Between the two academies, cation throughout the school day, about 50 principals are trained extenincluding curriculum, discipline poli- sively each year at no cost to the particcies, after-school activities, and reform ipants or their schools. initiatives. Characterplus has longOne important goal was to find ways standing relations with community for local businesses to raise awareness organizations such as local media, law for employees about the importance of enforcement, businesses, and profes- talking to young people about good sional sports teams. character. One school developed They have worked for nearly a posters that demonstrated a decade with one of the local network business/school collaboration supportTV affiliates on various projects. At first, ing character. The students took these this station joined the initiative by pro- posters to businesses of their choice for ducing a Saturday morning story telling display in the community. Another program (“Gator Tales”) based on char- business emphasized a character trait acter traits chosen by people in local each month on their employees’ payschool districts. More recently, the check stubs. Character education parsame network joined with ent training was made possible through Characterplus and the St. Louis Rams a grant from Monsanto Corporation. football team to produce a video that Connection to local service organizauses Rams players to promote character tions has brought another important along with a curriculum. These have resource to help schools support charbeen supplied to all schools in the acter education. From the beginning, Characterplus 35-district consortium. local Lions Clubs joined with schools This TV station has also collaborated in the Lions-Quest training. This part- Two Models of Community’ Based Character Education A 6 ~‘ Vol. 22, No. 2 nership brought financial and community support to help many schools begin the character education process. In 1997, the Rotary Club joined with a local high school to field test the Templeton Foundation’s “Laws of Life Essay Contest.’ Through English classes, young people wrote essays about the laws upon which their lives should be based. This project is now being replicated throughout the metropolitan area. Local chambers of commerce have been long-standing partners in bringing “Ethical Decision-making in the Workplace and Society”,5 a locally developed curriculum, to area schools. The curriculum includes a one-day symposium for high school students and area business representatives to look at how decisions are made and the importance of ethics in decision-making. This program is now available through the National Association of Secondary School Principals and is used nationally. Joining with cultural institutions and libraries has been important in the success of “Increase the peace,” a school-based project to promote understanding of the importance of settling differences peaceably. For example, students constructed “peace balls” of string that were later displayed at the St. Louis Science Center, where their scientific properties of length and weight were examined. This event became a city-wide youth celebration of peace. Local libraries collaborated by distributing student-designed bookmarks which, in art and words, depicted the students’ personal heroes and their character traits. Characterplus is based on the premise that values are transmitted to children 24 hours per day. Therefore effective character education requires community that is united in ways thi can pass on positive values. Parents ar educators have consistently emph sized the need for broader communi partnership to be a key priority of cha acter education in the St. Louis area, that school and home character effor will be reinforced throughout the dal lives of children. This is the reason fi such a long-standing and significai partnership between an education organization like Characterplus and many disparate community organiz tions. A more recent community-wk BChattanooga, a character education initiative i Tennessee, has similar partnered with diverse community el ments from its onset. The organizers the Chattanooga character educatic initiative have had very strong suppc and participation from the communit The Maclellan and Benwoc Foundations have provided financi support, which allowed for a full-tin director of character education as w as training for more than 1,000 teac~ ers and administrators (and continult support from the second author as outside consultant to the project). Th initial support also allowed for the co thw~cterEducation Infonnation To learn of a variety of books and materials about character education, send a request to Character Development Publishing, P0 Box 9211, Chapel Hill, NC 27515. 919-967-2110. Email respoct96@ual.com, ~‘ The School Public Relations Journal vening of citizens to help guide the initiative, including determining the character traits that would be emphasized throughout the school district. After determining those traits, the vision was presented to the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce and the Chattanooga Rotary and Civitan Clubs. The Chamber and the Rotary and Civitan clubs in Chattanooga consist of community business and social leaders. It is highly desirable for an educational initiative that needs the support of the community to have the school superintendent or his/her appointee address groups of community leaders. A meeting was convened with these groups to express to them the importance of character education and the efforts the schools were going to take to bring character education to the forefront of the educational experience. The attendees were told the history of character education in the nation and why it is important to refocus on this important objective both in the schools and in the community. Additionally, they were presented with studies of which character traits employers were looking for in successful employees. They were also informed about what is needed of our children and adults in order to promote citizenship and civility. Finally, it was stated that any support from them would be greatly appreciated; however, the organizers never anticipated the level of support to be offered. The operators of Eller Media, a national billboard company, agreed to design and market billboards on the school district’s “character trait of the month.” These billboards were placed Continued on page 12 8 s~’Vol. 22, No. 2 How to Foster Character Development in Shods e following are 10 specific recommendations for what people in communities and community groups can do to sup- port educators in fostering character development and, in doing so, help build healthy moral communities for all their citizens. We encourage communities and schools to add new ideas to this list to even more effectively collaborate to foster character development. The superintendent of schools 1character • must be an active supporter of education. Superintendents are frequently Invited to give talks to community groups and audiences. Character education should be prominently highlighted in such presentations. When superintendents are asked to talk about the schools, they should spend half of their time on the importance of schools working with communities and families to reinforce the importance of character development. Perhaps they could share evidence of this effort In the schools. Then they could turn to the academic goals of the school district. This would send a clear message to the educators and community members that character development and academics are equally important in a school environment. The School Board must support Z •the character development efforts of the schools and the cornmunity)6 The Board should treat character education as an important mission of the schools. This sends a powerful message to the community. or tutors to individual students~ The Board should also recognize the efforts of those in the community who service work with such organizations, Students could become involved hi which would strongly support both are working to promote character and service and service learning, routinel) civility. This can be done by recogniz- significant elements in character edu. ing a “Citizen of the Month” from the cation. What is important is that ke) community as well as the school dur- social groups and organizations givE ing a School Board meeting. Members support to the character educatior of the School Board should also be efforts of the schools and communit) vocal about their support for character as a whole. education throughout the community whether they are in session or not. 2 Community service organization ‘..J,members should be educated about the importance of character education and be invited to participate in the initiative. The school district’s character “point person” should speak to all service organizations concerning how their members can support character education in the schools as well as the community. Members of the School Board, staff, PTA, etc. who belong to such organizations should advocate for their participation in the community-wide Initiative. In many communities, such organizations play important roles in developing business and social relationships. Groups such as these are crucial in building business and community support for a character education initiative. Schools need financial as well as moral support and local businesses and philanthropists may be attracted through these service organizations to provide financial support for the initiative; for example, by sponsoring a school library section on character development and education or providing furniture for a resource center. Members of such organizations might also offer to send speakers in schools to address the importance of good character or to serve as mentors Community youth groups shoulc with the schools in pro 4 •partner moting character development. Youtl organizations, such as the 4H Clubs YMCA, YWCA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts etc., have character development as central and explicit part of their mis sions. A consortium of such groups it the Kansas City area began an initia tive called “Building Life Skills” tha focused on training volunteer and pro fessional youth group leaders to b more effective character educators Many students already belong to suci organizations, so the character mes sage at school gets reinforced outsid of school. FaIth communities must b~ 5in their .involved In assisting the school character efforts. Several year ago, religious leaders in Cumberlanc County, North Carolina agreed t preach once a month, using thei interpretation of their holy books, ot the character trait that was beint emphasized in the schools. All falt! communities were involved. Othe faith organizations have worked wit! schools on how their members migh tutor students as examples of model HowtoFost&d~Dev~opme~itIiSth Continuedon page The School Public Relations Journal ~ How to Fost& ax~aderDevelopueid ~iSthoo~s Continued from page 9 ing service as well as having students assist faith communities in their service efforts, such as soup kitchens. For children who have a strong faith background, the efforts of the faith communities help reinforce the school and community efforts. sportsmanship, as the St. Louis Rams have done in partnering with the Characterplus initiative. 7 Public civility and character / • should be endorsed and modeled. Attendees at public meetings should strive to model civility. County Commissioners, City Council or School Boards often must consider controversial issues. Despite the controversial topics they must address, members of public groups must work to maintain civility in their deliberations. All members of boards must strive to act with civility and caring towards themselves and their fellow citizens. They must seek to be moral models even if those around them are failing. In addition, they must take time to recognize and honor community members who exhibit moral virtue towards others. This sends a message that virtue and standards of excellence matter. We train and ask students to disagree in a civil manner, to be supportive in contentious classroom discussions, and to learn to resolve conflicts in a respectful manner. When they see public discourse that falls short of this, it weakens the effectiveness of what they experience in school. Moral discussion Is a critical element in effective character education, but it must be done In a respectful, reflective, and civil manner. When communities model this, children are more likely to follow suit. ~ All community sponsored recreU ~ational opportunities must transmit the character message. Sportsmanship at such events is often distressing, and much of the lack of sportsmanship is coming not from the playing field but from the stands. As a nation we are failing to teach the importance of sportsmanship.’9202’ County or community recreational associations should form committees to determine what good sportsmanship Is and how adults can model this to children. The list of traits and practices should be given to all coaches, parents, and athletes. They should hear from the recreational organization if they are modeling poor character to our young athletes, and if they persist they should not be welcome at such events. The message should be clear that the character development of our children is a higher priority than a parent’s right or need to vent in public. Coaches, trainers, athletic directors, and others who work in youth recreational activities should be trained in character development and Owners and managers of media there should be a partnership between •outlets should be encouraged to such individuals in the community recognize acts of good character In the and their counterparts in the schools. schools and In the community. It is a Local professional athletic teams common criticism that managers of should be enlisted to support a com- the media focus on bad news and munity consensus on character and ignore good news. A balanced 8 0 ~‘ Vol. 22, No. 2 approach is needed. Reporters and editors have an obligation to report the news, but that also should include the good news coming from the schools and communities. They can celebrate good character in children, recognize the efforts of students in service learning, and report the efforts of schools In creating a more civil climate. They can celebrate those in our community who add a touch of civility to the community. This type of news reporting can provide a balanced view of a school and a community. Reporters can also publicize the community-based character education effort, and they can be a vehicle for direct education, for example with public service announcements. O Business owners and leaders must by sponsoring specific character education projects. ~ Community members must 1formed ‘J .understand that character is first and foremost by our first teachers our families. We must do whatever we can to help families in their efforts to raise children who “know, love and do the good”22 as a community and ultimately as a nation. Educators can offer suggestions on what families can do with their children to promote respect, responsibility, and caring. As the Character Education Partnership states in one of its Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education, “The school must recruit parents and community members as full partners in the character-building effort.”23 Community- .J .take the time to recognize and cel- based parenting organizations that ebrate good character among their employees and to invest in schools and youth character. Most employers report that people who are respectful of others, responsible in their work, and caring towards others make good employees. Intelligence is important but intelligence without good character may result in an employee who has the potential to do the job well, but, because of attitude, is unable or unwilling to do the job. To create an attitude in the workplace that character matters we should take time to recognize this in our employees. Reminders about the Importance of character can appear in paychecks, bulletins, newsletter, and during meetings. Establishing a corporate ethics program also sends the message that character counts. Clearly business people can also promote the school’s character mission, support employees in doing so, and offer financial assistance help parents prepare their children for school and life In general should be enlisted in the character education effort. In St. Louis, Characterplus has partnered with Parents as Teachers, an International organization that trains community members to train parents how to more effectively influence the character formation of their preschool aged children. The forthcoming revision of their 3-5 currIculum is going to highlight character development. Schools need parents and parents need schools to achieve the optimum In youth character development. ~‘ The School Public Relations Journal ~ I Continued from page 8 because the school district receives calls from people driving through town, seein high visibility areas throughout the ing the billboards, and wanting to county. Many businesses rented a bill- know what is occurring. board, with some renting several. Eller Bi-Lo Grocery and Coca-Cola sponMedia has sold and displayed on aver- sored a monthly insert the last Sunday age 15 billboards a month promoting of each month in the local newspaper, character over the past two years. It is The Chattanooga Times/Free Press, as clear that they are having an impact, well as providing the inserts to all stu- The 2nd Face of Community in Character Education When discussing character education, the term community refers to something that happens within the walls of a school or even within an individual classroom. There is a long and important tradition of educational concern for building community within a school56 and for examining harmful aspects 7of flawed community in a school. In essence, schools are (or should be) communities in this sense. It is clear from the research on character education that building withinschool community is a critical catalyst for the effective promotion of students’ character development. Sponsors of the Child Development Project, a wellresearched and Intensively implemented character education model, have discovered that the desirable effects of their intervention depend upon students coming to perceive their schools as “caring communities”0 A central theme of their comprehensive elementary school reform model is building community within the individual class- 2 ~‘ Vol. 22, No. 2 room as well.9’0 Furthermore, their research has demonstrated that class meetings, a key ingredient in fostering classroom community, is one of the most important variables in effective character education. The field of constructivist education has also highlighted classroom atmosphere as critical to children’s social and emotional development.” At the secondary level, another character education program, the Just Community Schools, relies heavily on building a moral atmosphere in the alternative high schools officials have established and mentored.’2 Their primary focus is on school culture and collective norms among school members. In other words, the development of a positive community in these alternative schools is considered the critical ingredient in promoting the development of student moral reasoning. Related areas of education report a similar emphasis on community building. For Instance, the prevention field has revealed that attachment to school is an important deterrent for adolescent risky behaviors.’3 ~ dents. This eight-page insert promotes the character trait that will receive a concentrated focus during the following month. Through the help of The Times/Free Press, the initiative staff has also designed their own posters supporting the trait of the month. During 1998-99, they used the same posters for the elementary, middle and high schools. During the 1999-2000 school year they used pictures of local children for the elementary schools and local and international heroes from present day and the past for the middle and high schools. The posters for the 2000-2001 school year feature district students. Many organizations throughout the Chattanooga area have sponsored these posters, which are displayed in all classrooms as well as through the common areas of the schools.’6 The faith community has also been involved in promoting and supporting character education. In 1998, more than 1,000 letters were sent to ministers and religious youth leaders. These letters invited these leaders to a meeting to learn more about the district’s character education initiative. Close to 100 faith leaders attended the meeting. They represented a broad variety of denominations and viewpoints. They all acknowledged that they had an important role to play in helping to forge the character of youth. Each minister, rabbi, priest, or other religious leader was asked to use his/her interpretation of scripture to preach one sermon a month on the school district’s character trait of the month. At the conclusion of the presentation they acknowledged that the schools must also be involved in fostering youth character. This is particularly important given the historically adversarial rela- tionships between churches and public schools in America. The 96th American Assembly report Matters of Faith: Religion in American Public Life lists as one of its six recommendations on education: “local schools should develop character education plans in cooperation with parents and religious leaders together with teachers and school administmtors to ensure that widely-held moral va1u~are reflected and taught in the mission ~ndenvironment of the school.” Consistent with this mandate, the attending clergy were also asked to help organize tutorials in the schools and lust visit the schools and support the children. This has proven to be a successful partnership. Educators throughout the county have reported an increase in people coming from the churches to the schools to tutor children. Conduskms Research from related discipline5 suggests that the effectiveness of char. acter education may be increased by broadening the conception of commu~ nity from community within the walI5 of the school to include the residen. tial-business community elements a~ partners In the character educatior endeavor. Indeed, this has been donE in character education programs likE Characterplus in St. Louis and th recent Chattanooga initiative. Although parents are the key tc character development of children, w all have a role in promoting characte as a basis for success in the future o our country.24 Members of every organi zation within a community can anc The School Public Retalions Journal ~‘ riiuiu t~ALLU(Y:L~avKIuonessy must contribute. The goal should be to wrap character in a community wide package that is opened and practiced daily and permeates throughout the community. It must become part of the “ethos” or life of the child, parent, and :0. Wachingtnr, A): Die ClamOur Eduno~IonPortn,rrhip. 24. 9erfrawi~MW. (2000C. Ii,lr, nod 0mm) edonohion. nM, D,n.P,retc, S Bn,wrr, ON. Mann )Ddc.L Rootlndgo (nt,roati000) Companion to Tderonian (pp. 9919091 LanA,,: RouI)ndge, Marvin W. Berkowitz is the Sanford N. McDonnell Professor of Character Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He can be reached at College of Education 469 Marillac Hall, UMSL, St. Louis MO community. If we commit to such an effort, we 63121 -4499. can surely help alter the character of Philip Fitch Vincent is Director of the Center for Ethics, Public Polic~and Leadership at Greensboro College. He our communities. can be reached at pvincent@gborocollege.edu or Greensboro College, 615 West Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27401. Linda Mct(ay is Director of Character Education for the MoChilon, 9.7, f0999). 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(doceong fan tfcotaot,n. New Oar),: Bu~orr. 23. ((cAcao, I., Snhrcpt, 7., & tewir, C. 11996). Ok, ,),,,n pnirnlplora) ,fInnOv, ,l:unorter edino’ 14 ot~’Vol. 22, No. 2 Editor’s Note This article is one of four that were- arranged by Judith Cochran of the University of Missouri. The first three appeared in Vol. 22, No. 1 of the Journal. Because of a lack of space in that issue, this article was held over for this edition. Youngpeople—advLw them to enjoy themselves now, These are ‘thegood ole’ days’ that they’ll talk about.40 years flvm now. Don Vetter TheSchool Public Relations Journal ~