Three area companies – Anheuser Busch, Emerson, and the Harbour Group – will contribute to a second Leadership Academy for Character Education enabling all 93 SLPS principals to attend this successful, high quality training over the next five years. LACE is a program offered through the University of Missouri St. Louis and CHARACTERplus, a program of Cooperating School Districts.
The Leadership Academy helps principals deepen their understanding of character education and shows them how to integrate character education into every aspect of a student’s school day. Principals learn to involve not just students, but teachers, parents and community members in the character building process. The goal of the LACE program is for each principal to design and tailor a quality character education program for their students by the end of the 12-month program.
Principals will meet once per month, including site visits to exemplary schools, attendance at the local annual CHARACTERplus conference, and participation in workshops by national leaders in the field. In addition, the participants will all be mentored by Dr. Marvin Berkowitz, the Sanford N. McDonnell Professor of Character Education at UMSL.