Okoboji Community School Districts

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Okoboji Community School Districts

• Educating our Characters with Character.
• Character Education Presentation

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OKOBOJI COMMUNITY SCHOOLS CHARACTER EDUCATION
MISSION STATEMENT

• Character Education in the Okoboji Schools will
  provide opportunities to build a foundation for
  the development of citizens of character. The
  school will work with the community, students,
  and family to support, model and promote ethical
  values that lead to personal accountability for
  the benefit of self and society.

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What is Character Counts?

• CHARACTER COUNTS! is a nonprofit, nonpartisan,
  nonsectarian character education framework that
  teaches the Six Pillars of Character
  trustworthiness, respect, responsibility,
  fairness, caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER
  COUNTS! Coalition includes thousands of schools,
  communities, and non-profit organizations.

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The Six Pillars of Character

• These six core ethical values form the foundation
  of
• the CHARACTER COUNTS! youth-ethics initiative.  
• 1. Trustworthy
• Be honest - Dont deceive, cheat or steal
• Be reliable - do what you say youll do
• Have the courage to do the right thing
• Build a good reputation

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The Six Pillars of Character

• 2. Respect
• Treat others with respect - follow the Golden
  Rule
• Be tolerant of differences
• Use good manners, not bad language
• Be considerate of the feelings of others
• Dont threaten, hit or hurt anyone

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The Six Pillars of Character

• 3. Responsibility
• Do what you are supposed to do
• Always do your best
• Use self-control - Be self-disciplined
• Think before you act - consider the consequences
• Be accountable for your choices

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The Six Pillars of Character

• 4. Fairness
• Play by the rules
• Take turns and share
• Dont take advantage of others
• Dont blame others carelessly

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The Six Pillars of Character

• 5. Caring
• Be kind
• Be compassionate and show you care
• Express gratitude
• Forgive others
• Help people in need

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The Six Pillars of Character

• 6. Citizenship
• Do your share to make your school and community
  better
• Cooperate
• Get involved in community affairs - Stay informed
  - vote
• Be a good neighbor
• Obey laws and rules
• Protect the environment

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Golden Oldies

• One Saturday each month a group of students go
  to the nursing home to play games and do crafts
  with the residents.

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Volunteering shows character, even if it is just
helping out in the concession stand.
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High School peers model the best of Character all
the time. This is Dani Jo, a high school peer,
helping with Rock and Prevention.
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Students collected money to make Christmas
special for some local families. The students
took part of a day to buy the gifts for the Adopt
- a - Family project.
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High School friends help out at the elementary
school through the Peer Helper and Special Friend
Programs
Special relationships are forged between the
children and their high school friends. The
programs emphasize positive role modeling.
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The 2nd graders decorated sacks for the high
school FFA students to fill with lunches for area
farmers during harvest.
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Doing the Right Thing All the Time!Here is
Kendra helping at the OMS book fair.
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Bleacher Creatures

• Students help the janitorial staff by picking up
  the bleacher areas after home sporting events.

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Recycling Project

• Students
• began a local recycling project at school.

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OES Classroom Business Partners who help our kids
learn character.
Cycle Country Buy Rite Foods The Three
Sons Oak Hill Marina Godfathers Pizza
Piccadilly Pizza H.T.C., Inc.
Stylecraft Milford Pharmacy Liberty Bank
Landmark Products Boji Styles Farmers Savings
Bank Web Graphics Northwest Federal Savings
Bank Bank Midwest United Community Bank
Thanks!
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Community partners work together with our school
to help us build and practice our character
skills.
4th Grade TRRFCC students spend a lunch hour
working at McDonalds of Okoboji. McDonalds
also sponsors an annual family night at the
restaurant.
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Kiwanis sponsored OHS Key, OES K Kids and OMS
Builders Clubs who all perform community
service. Here OMS Builders deliver cookies baked
by the Key and K Kids Clubs to organizations
that provide community service.
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Cookie Appreciation Project
The high school Key Club partnered with the
middle school Builders Club and the elementary K
Kids to bake and deliver cookies of appreciation
to the city officials who serve the public.
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Bloodmobile

• Student council members work with the Siouxland
  Blood Bank and organize a local blood drive for
  high school students.

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We serve our community at OES with the Classroom
of Character Service Learning Project.
2nd Grade students help with the animals at the
Humane Society of Northwest Iowa throughout the
year.
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We tell our friends about our projects at an
all-school assembly so that everyone can see how
much we care!
Meals on Wheels friend and Iowas oldest
resident, Letitia Lawson, shares her wisdom on
character.
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We use character to Gang Up on Drug and Alcohol
Use
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We pledge to Be of Good Character.
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We write about character. These are our essay
winners.
Daniel, Andre, Sadie, Kendra, Laura
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We read about character. We talk about good
character at school. We role play good character
at OMS.
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OCSD Character bracelets remind us of the six
pillars of Character. Blue Trustworthy Yellow
Respect Green Responsibility Orange
Fairness Red Caring Purple Citizenship
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• A Partnership with Camp Foster reinforces and
  builds skills of Character like
• Positive outlook and attitude
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Integrity
• Service to others
• Trust
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Caring

Eighth graders walking Mr. Range on the A frame.
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We catch others using character and pass it on
with Character Cards.
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Planting the seeds of character is everybodys
job.
K-4 Students with high school helpers, parents,
and grandparents planted tulips in our courtyard
as a promise to be drug free.
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We brag about our strengths, and we are
consistently working on our weaknesses.
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We recognize our accomplishments at OES through a
monthly character awards assembly.
Monthly TRRFCC Kids of Character and E for Effort
are presented. Students are singing and signing a
drug free and patriotic song led by Mrs. Ellis.
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Students are nominated by their teachers and
recognized during morning announcements.
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Kids of Character

• Is a partnership with KUOO/KUQQ to recognize
  students who exemplify one or more of the 6
  pillars of character. Anyone may nominate a
  student and forms may be picked up at local
  businesses. The students receive a certificate
  and the award is announced during the pre-game
  show of Okoboji sporting events broadcasted on
  the radio.

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Six Pillars of Character