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For Immediate Release: January 9, 2012Endeavour Receives National Promising
Practice Award for
COCOA, FLORIDA –
Schools and districts from across the United
States, as well as Brazil and Mexico, received awards
for “Promising Practices” in character education. Over
200 winning practices included new and effective ways to
help decrease bullying, express gratitude for our
nation’s military veterans, teach manners and
compassion, encourage service-learning, and improve
school culture. Many practices also offered innovative
ways to increase parent and community involvement
throughout the school.
Endeavour Elementary received a National Promising
Practice award for their Peace Pentagon project.
This project is done in conjunction with other
activities leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Students at Endeavour write statements on pentagons
explaining what they are going to do to promote world
peace. Students take their pentagons and carry them on a
Peace Promenade (parade around our campus-“Advocating
for Peace”). These pentagons are collected and glued
together to form “snowflakes” which are posted on the
windows of our café to be read and shared.
Kindergarteners extend this project even farther by
making “Radiant crowns” (Statue of Liberty crowns) that
has 7 rays, one ray for each continent of the world
which they wear during the Peace Promenade. They also
chant: P-E-A-C-E while walking. To learn more about
Endeavour and their service learning and character
development projects please visit our “Service Learning
Page” on the Endeavour website:
www.endeavour.brevardschools.org
“Character Education is as fundamental as reading,
writing, math, and science in terms of molding a child
into a productive and capable adult,” added Mr. Wilson,
Endeavour Elementary Principal.
The Character Education Partnership (CEP) gives the
annual Promising Practice awards for unique and specific
exemplary practices that encourage the ethical, social,
and academic growth of K-12 students through character
education. By publicizing these awards, CEP recognizes
educators for their efforts and encourages others to
learn from and even replicate these successful
initiatives.
“CEP’s Promising Practice program shows how K-12
character education impacts so many students,” said Lisa
Greeves, Manager of CEP’s Promising Practice Program.
“Each practice touches the lives of dozens, sometimes
hundreds of students. These practices add up
significantly and make a difference.”
This year’s Promising Practices represent 31 different
states and three foreign countries. CEP received a
record 500 applications overall from public schools,
private schools, school districts, and other
organizations. The Promising Practice awards program is
administered by CDP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan,
nonsectarian coalition of organizations and individuals
dedicated to helping schools develop people of good
character for a just and compassionate society. To learn
more about CEP and its national awards program, visit
www.character.org.
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