What are the Eleven Principles?

The Character Education Partnership (CEP), a non-profit, non-sectarian national organization has developed eleven basic principles that can serve as criteria for schools to use in establishing character education programs.

The Eleven Principles provides a framework for establishing highly effective character education programs in schools.  Understanding and using these principles helps schools: learn what character education is, how to identify a school environment that fosters character development in students, who must be involved in designing the character education program, and provides an evaluation component to assess a schools' character education program.