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UMSL ★  Community Education, Training & Professional Development

Leadership Academy in Character Education (LACE™)

LACE™ is a complex and comprehensive year-long professional development experience for school leaders focused on character education.

recurring: LACE™ runs from June to May each year with new cohorts. Applications are available online at https://characterandcitizenship.org/programs/leadership-academy.
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Leadership Academy in Character Education (LACE™)

Core elements of the program include a LACE™ Starter Library in character education; peer networking; a series of monthly full day workshops led by nationally and internationally-recognized experts; a curriculum of monthly written collaborative reflections with expert constructive feedback; development of a site-specific character education plan; and collaborative site-based planning to name a few.


Since 1998, the Leadership Academy in Character Education (LACE) has helped school leaders develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to create, implement and evaluate programs and processes that make their schools true learning communities in which character education is a vital part of the curriculum and culture.

Impact

LACE™ has a demonstrable record of success. This can be seen, for example, in the number of leaders whose schools have won independent recognition for excellence in character education. Each year, Character.org (formerly CEP), based on a rigorous set of criteria, recognizes public and private schools and school districts in the United States as models of effective character education. As part of their National Schools of Character program, the first LACE™ was established in St. Louis in 1998 as a partnership of the Center for Character and Citizenship at UMSL and CharacterPlus. As of 2018, 82 schools and districts in the St. Louis region led by LACE™ graduates have earned recognition as National Schools/Districts of Character. That represents almost 20% of all schools and districts so recognized in the entire country.
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Character Education, Collaboration, Education, Workforce Development

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recurring

Contact

Marvin W. Berkowitz, Sanford N. McDonnell Endowed Professor of Character Education
  berkowitz@umsl.edu
  (314) 516-7522

Location

  1 University Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA

More Information

https://characterandcitizenship.org/programs/leadership-academy

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