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CHARACTER COUNTS!
Everywhere, All the Time…
DAY 3 - Good Morning!
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Good Morning! Please read this slide as
we start our day . . .
At your table you will find a sentence strip and a black marker.
Please write on the sentence strip a “slogan,” “phrase,” or “thought”
that has been significant for you during the previous two days. Think
of what might go on a “bumper sticker” for someone’s car.
These will be shared with the group shortly after we begin this
morning.
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Dialogue
Move into the groups that were formed
for the homework presentation, and
deliver your presentations.
Turn to the Presentation Rubric in the workbook
(page 65) to self-assess the presentation.
•What did you learn as the one doing the
presentation? As a listener?
•Are their ideas you can use in your school?
•How can you use a presentation with others in
your school or organization?
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Implementation Stories
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What’s Happening?
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What’s Happening?
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How to Build Classrooms that promote academics, social/emotional learning and
Character
Strive to build relationships with students and model character
Create awareness of the academic, social and emotional and character beliefs by
using visual displays, integration of the common language and being intentional in
the implementation of instructional strategies
Intentionally teach academics and character at the same time
Practice character-based discipline in managing your classroom
Provide opportunities to help students make effective and ethical
decisions
Connect with colleagues to promote a positive learning environment where
CHARACTER COUNTS! becomes part of the DNA of the school
Communicate with parents
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FAIL FORWARD!
Failing is not fatal unless you
stop trying.
Every time you fail you can
learn something and become
stronger.
Successful people usually fail
more that others. They just
didn’t let their failures stop
them.
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Don’t ask:
“What’s broken,
and how do we
fix it?”
Ask: “What’s
working, and how
can we do more
of it?”
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How is change achieved?
Our actions can be determined by reason
(the rider) or emotion (the elephant)
How is change achieved?
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Motivating the Elephant
• Telling: Explanation, descriptions
• Observing: Stories told, read or seen (video or
movie)
• Vicarious experience: Testimonials (others
describing personal experience)
• Doing: Experiential activity generating selfdiscovery and an emotional commitment
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Insights About Change
• Knowledge does not change behavior; it
must reach the emotions
• Narrow the choices
• Simplify
• Set specific behavioral goals
• Be specific and concrete
• Go for easy and early successes
• Use stories, images, simulations, and handson experience
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“If you want to change the world, you
eventually have to change how people
behave.”
“And if you want to change how they
behave, you have to first change how
they think.”
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
by Kerry Patterson, et.al. (2010)
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Change
In almost all successful change efforts, the
sequence of change is not ANALYZETHINK-CHANGE:
Rather
SEE-FEEL-CHANGE.
-- Kotter and Cohen - The Heart of Change (2002)
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People will not change
entrenched attitudes or
behaviors unless they believe
two things:
It’s worth it.
• It’s worth the effort.
• What I will get is more valuable than
what I give up.
I can do it.
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As you consider your action plan, keep in mind
the need to …
1. Articulate and
advocate the Vision
• Identify ideal outcomes; what will success
will look like (must be specific in terms of
specific beliefs, attitudes and conduct)
2. Analyze evidence of
Growth Mindset of
organization
• Has your school or organization replaced
“I can’t” belief with an “I can’t yet” belief?
3. Activate Emotions
• Knowledge does not produce change;
emotion does; instill and promote vision
4. Establish Incremental
Objectives
• Identify achievable steps and
acknowledge them when achieved
5. Identify Success
Models
• Identify people and programs doing it
right; ; lack of initial success is certain
and natural on the road to better
6. Celebrate Success
• Acknowledge; /celebrate good models and
good behavior
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Sphere of Influence
Three areas of impact:
• personal (their own lives)
• professional (within the sphere
of their work)
• some influence (areas that
they don’t control, but can
influence those who do)
On post-it notes, write an
impact you can make in
each of the three areas.
Use this as a tool for
getting ideas from others
in their constituencies.
Stick your post-its in the
appropriate area on the
appropriate sheet.
Refer to WORKBOOK
PAGE 224 and write the
ideas on the page.
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• What are the positive things that your school is already
doing related to teaching and modeling the key beliefs in
the 3 domains?
TEACH
ENFORCE
ADVOCATE
MODEL
• Considering all that we already do effectively, what
specific strategies should we consider doing that will
enhance our school’s character development efforts in
the 3 domains?
TEACH
ENFORCE
ADVOCATE
MODEL
Star those that all teachers can do
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Using the Matrix of Critical Educational Outcomes,
Key Beliefs and Instructional Strategies
Turn to the
Matrix,
Social/Emotio
nal Domain,
pages 9-18.
There you
will find 52
instructional
strategies
designed to
instill the key
beliefs.
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How You Can Promote CHARACTER COUNTS! In Your
School
Part 1: As an individual:
• Circle at least 5 instructional strategies associated with key beliefs in
the Social/Emotional Domain that you already do.
• Underline at least 5 instructional strategies you’d like to try.
• Star three instructional strategies that if successfully implemented
would make a measurable difference in your class or school.
Part 2: As a group:
• Each share two strategies circled, 2 strategies underlined and
one strategy starred.
• For each idea shared, determine if this reflects T – teaching E
– enforcing A – advocating M- modeling.
Part 3: Reporting out:
• What conclusions can we draw from this activity?
• Share from your group one strategy someone is already
doing; one strategy someone would like to try; one strategy
that would make a measurable difference.
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Stakeholders
Putting a Team Together
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Purpose of
CHARACTER COUNTS!® Team
Lead
Sustain
Plan
… your
initiatives
Evaluate
*TRRFCC Team
*Making a Difference
Team
*Yes, we can Team
*Character does not
count without your Team
*CC! Team
*School Improvement
Team
Implement
Monitor
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Data
Conduct a Needs (Climate) Assessment
and Gather Baseline Data. Evaluate
Program and Adjust Accordingly
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Collect Information
Survey what your school,
organization, or community is
doing to encourage good
character.
Assess the needs of the
school, organization, or
community, using surveys,
focus groups, and other tools.
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Prepare for Assessment
WHO
WHAT
WHEN
HOW
should be
surveyed
questions
to ask
time of year
online,
focus group,
or paper
and pencil
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Develop Baseline Statistics
Collect other statistics from:
• Police: graffiti, drug and alcohol use, vandalism,
petty thefts
• School discipline records: referrals, detentions,
tardies, absences, suspensions
• Academic Records: standardized test scores,
overall grade-point averages by grade and
subject, rates of late and incomplete homework
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Create a Vision and Action Plan
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Moving From Words To Action
Goal: Making Sure CHARACTER COUNTS!®
1. What would you
like to happen?
2. Describe the
current situation in
comparison to the
goal.
3. What will
CC! look like
in our
program?
6. How will we
measure effectiveness
of CC!
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4. At the end of
this year, we will
have done these
3 things:
5. The first
steps we will
take:
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Outreach Resources
CHARACTER COUNTS!® Week – During the third week in October, there are
major media opportunities.
Sports Newsletter – More than 70,000 people subscribe to a free monthly
newsletter called Pursuing Victory With Honor.
Bi-Annual Report Card on American Youth – Every two years, the JI
publishes the nation’s most comprehensive survey of American youth.
Coalition Membership – Nearly 1000 member organizations, more than
3,500 schools, and more than 7 million children and their families belong to
the CHARACTER COUNTS!® Coalition.
Audio Commentaries – Michael Josephson’s CHARACTER COUNTS!®
podcast at WhatWillMatter.com, and on radio stations throughout the U.S.,
and worldwide on the American Forces Network.
CHARACTER COUNTS!® Newsletters – Nearly 100,000 people subscribe
to a free weekly CHARACTER COUNTS!® Newsletter featuring quotations
and commentaries.
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CHARACTER COUNTS!
Everywhere, All the Time…
Thank You!
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