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    INTEGRATING COMMON CORE

    AND CHARACTER EDUCATION


    Why It Is Essential and How It Can Be Done

    Kristin Fink
    Utah State University

    FS Karen Geller
    Educational Researcher and Consultant

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    The Common Core needs a vessel or a container to hold the knowledge and skill standards in order to move

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    them forward. The vessel is the school or school district that models ethical and performance character prin-
    ciples for students and adults, creating a culture of respect, responsibility and excellence in which all can

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    thrive.

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    —Charles Elbot, Education Advisory Council, Character Education Partnership

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    Imagine a school, anywhere in the United
    States. Perhaps it is your local school. Or
    maybe it is a school where your grandchild or
    other family member attends. As a parent,
    ted to academic excellence, and you also want
    every child’s school to be a place where stu-
    dents and adults are caring and responsible,
    and committed to a learning community which
    grandparent, aunt or uncle, sister or brother, values and supports everyone! You ask your-
    educator, community or school board member, self if students can even be successful academ-
    you want your school systems to be the best ically if they are worried about bullying, or do
    they can be—dedicated to helping all children not feel they have the support they need to
    achieve academically in deep and meaningful achieve. Maybe you want your child to learn
    ways. You realize the world is changing rap- teamwork and good sportsmanship from their
    idly, and you reflect on the knowledge, skills athletic experiences, or how to work out prob-
    and qualities every young person will need to lems with others in the schoolyard without
    successfully meet the challenges of the 21st resorting to violence. Perhaps you want fine
    century. arts programs that help your child explore and
    You wonder what it would take for your appreciate the aesthetic and ethical dimensions
    child, or any child, to thrive? You are commit- of life, and what a life worth living is all about.

    • Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Kristen Fink, [email protected]

    Journal of Character Education, Volume 12(1), 2016, pp. 55–68 ISSN 1543-1223
    Copyright © 2016 Information Age Publishing, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.

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