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Character Education Partnership

Leading a National Call to Character

Character Education Partnership advocates for quality, comprehensive character education in all schools. It is a Washington-based national, nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of organizations and individuals led by business and educational leaders. These leaders are passionately dedicated to the advancement of respect, responsibility, honesty, service, citizenship, and the pursuit of one's best work in school and all other areas of life. CEP's leadership views comprehensive character education as a key component of improving school culture and climate, creating safe learning environments where students and teachers will flourish.

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Areas of interest: academic integrity, acceptance, accountability, adversity, anti-bullying, attitude, behavior, bullying, caring, character ambassadors, character development, character education, charity, choice, citizenship, civic collaboration, community building, compassion, competence, competition, confidence, cooperation, core values, cyber-bullying, diligence, diversity, effort, empathy, engagement, ethics, excellence, exemplar schools, fairness, fidelity, forgiveness, health, honesty, hope, humane education, inclusivity, interdependence, internal motivation, intrinsic motivation, justice, kindness, leadership, learning, mentoring, modeling, moral, National School of Character, peace, peer conflict, peer cruelty, performance, positive, proactive, Promising Practices, prudence, relationship building, resilience, resourcefulness, respect, responsibility, responsiveness, role model, safe, school climate, school culture, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-image, self-motivated, service learning, sharing, social consciousness, social justice, social responsibilit, social skills, social-emotional learning, State School of Character, support, teamwork, temperance, tolerance, transformation, understanding, value, virtue, welcoming