Santa Clara University

Click here to watch a short video about a special education teacher who describes how her involvement in the Markkula Ethics Center when she was an undergraduate changed the course of her life.  Griselda Renteria, now a special education teacher in the Cupertino, Calif., school system, began working with the Center's Character Education Program when she was a freshman at SCU.

Join us at Bishop Elementary School for a CBL Basic Training presented by Tom Kostic. RSVP by June 7, 2013 to kmccauley@scu.edu More Information here!

The Bering Straits School District in Alaska has adopted the Ethics Center's high school CBL language arts curriculum,combining classic and contemporary American, world, government, and Alaskan literature with a research-­based framework that allows students to explore these ideas in context with their own unique culture.

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What are the Common Core Standards in English and how do they combine with CBL? Please click here for presentations addressing these questions.

 Click here for more information about our upcoming CBL Training workshop on March 6, 2013.

Thank you for your continued interest in the Character-Based Literacy Program!

• Updates for the 2012-2013 school year can be found here.
• Memorandum of Understanding can be found here. (Instructions on where to send it are included.

Resources:

• High School cycle chart
• Middle School cycle chart

We are excited to introduce our sixth theme for the CBL Leadership program!

Leadership Requires Engagement - engaging life fully for the common good.

Leaders develop and dedicate their talents to promote the common good. This is where they choose to spend their time and effort. Leadership requires positive civic engagement. It is making sure that the communities I am part of are better because I am in them. And that I am better because of the communities I choose to be part of.

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For the 2012-2013 school year:

High school -  Reading Cycle I

Middle school - Reading Cycle II

CBL Training is a free workshop for teachers, counselors, and administrators in alternative, special, and correctional education programs for at-risk students and juvenile offenders. It is hosted by the Mendocino County Office of Education.

When: March 21, 2012, 10am-3:30pm
Location: Mendocino County Office of Education
      2240 Old River Road
      Ukiah, CA. 95482
      South East Room

Presenter: Stephen Johnson

Session 1: 10AM-12:30PM: This session will provide an overview to the Character Based Literacy program themes, novels and activities.

Session 2: 1:30PM-3:30PM: This session will review specifically Q4 and Q5 novels for Cycle IV.

To see the flier for the workshop, click here.