about schools of character
We support school leaders as they develop and strengthen their school’s comprehensive character initiative.
Character.org was founded by educators who envisioned a future where every school inspires young people to understand, care about, and practice the character strengths that will enable them to flourish in school, in the workplace, and as citizens. |
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Troy High started this endeavor 4 years ago to help students with their character. We created a survey that brought input from students, staff and parents. This gave us the areas we wanted to focus on of Responsibility Resilience Empathy and Kindness. From that point we have been moving forward to make our character values part of the culture at Troy High.
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Troy High Schools of Character Journey
At Troy High School we have always felt that developing character among our students is one of the most important traits that needs to be taught in school. However, we needed to give character education more direction and focus by looking to see what the most important traits are for our students, teachers, and the local community. We started with surveying each group to see how we can guide our character journey. The words that most defined our educational community are Resiliency, Responsibility, Empathy, and Kindness. We have used these words to help students see what a very important part of their lives should be so that these words become part of the fabric of Troy Highs culture and a big part of our students lives to make them better more successful people in our society. We have helped to ingrain these traits in every aspect of school life for our students. There are visible sign of these words everywhere around the school. They are part of conversations with students throughout the day in lesson plans, coaching strategies, extra-curricular activities, charity events, outreach events, community events, peer to peer conversations, administration to student conversations and more. The words are painted on the walls and on billboards throughout the school. The entire staff, the students , and the community has bought into making these characteristics a priority to live by and continue to work on throughout their own journeys in life.