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Planning for Progress
District Planning for Progress

Pinellas County Schools hosted a series of community meetings across the district to share school-specific data and gather feedback on population and enrollment trends, facility planning and school utilization.

C2C Principles

Principles of Character
The following eleven principles serve as criteria our schooll used to plan character education efforts.
Principle 1
Promotes core ethical values as the basis of good character.
Principle 2
Defines "character" comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior.
Principle 3
Uses a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character development.
Principle 4
Creates a caring school community.

Principle 5
Provides students with opportunities for moral action.
Principle 6
Includes a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed.
Principle 7
Strives to foster students self motivation.
Principle 8
Engages the school staff as a learning and moral community that shares responsibility for character education and attempts to adhere to the same core values that guide the education of students.

Principle 9
Fosters shared moral leadership and long range support of the character education initiative.
Principle 10
Engages families and community members as partners in the character-building effort.
Principle 11
Evaluates the character of the school, the school staff's functioning as character educators, and the extent to which students manifest good character.