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General Websites
Living Values
Provides guiding principles and tools for the development of the whole person, recognizing that the individual is comprised of physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual dimensions
Character Education Partnership
A nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtues in our nations youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society.
Character Counts
Curriculum teaching the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.
Wise Skills Resources
Highlights the lives of positive role models as a basis for addressing character, community, and conflict resolution.
Professional Websites
American Psychological Association
APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 121,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.
American Counseling Association
The American Counseling Association is a not-for-profit, professional and educational organization that is dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the counseling profession. Founded in 1952, ACA is the world's largest association exclusively representing professional counselors in various practice settings.
American Association of Christian Counselors
AACC is committed to assisting Christian counselors, the entire “community of care,” licensed professionals, pastors, and lay church members with little or no formal training. It's intention is to equip clinical, pastoral, and lay care-givers with biblical truth and psychosocial insights that minister to hurting persons and helps them move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity.
Michigan Association of School Psychologists
MASP is the only Michigan organization that represents school psychologists at both the state and local levels and conducts important activities on your behalf. Through professional development, advocacy, governance, and publications, the board at MASP works hard to represent school psychologists throughout the state of Michigan
Association for Moral Education
The Association for Moral Education (AME) provides an international forum for the interdisciplinary study of the moral and ethical dimensions of human development and education.
Institute for Global Ethics
Seeks to promote public discourse and practical action around significant ethical issues. Interesting ethical dilemmas.
Government Websites
Michigan Code of Educational Ethics
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) approved a new Michigan Code of Educational Ethics (Code) in May 2019. The Code provides principles for best practice, mindfulness, self-reflection, and decision-making - setting the groundwork for self-regulation and self-accountability.
Character Education
he Character Education Partnership (CEP), a nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonsectarian organization that supports and promotes social, emotional and ethical development in youth defines character education as "the deliberate effort by schools, families, and communities to help young people understand, care about, and act upon core ethical values." (1999) The Council of Chief State School Officers states that "character education holds that certain core values form the basis of 'good character,' i.e., the kinds of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that the school wants from, and is therefore committed to teach to, its children." (1997)
Character Education Framework Guidance
It is intended for use by school leaders and teachers when considering the rationale for character education and some wider aspects of personal development, and ...
U.S. Office of Government Ethics
Ethics education is an essential tool in helping agencies and employees manage and minimize the risk of ethical failure. An agency’s ethics education program increases employees’ awareness of their ethical obligations, helps them identify ethics issues that may arise in the work they perform, and provides employees guidance and support for making ethical decisions.
