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	<title>Building Good Citizens for Texas</title>
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		<title>Bastrop County – A County of Character</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 28, the Bastrop County Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution designating &#8220;Bastrop &#8211; A County of Character&#8221;. This action follows the designation of&#160; &#8220;Bastrop &#8211; A City of Character&#8221; several years ago. Both of these actions have, as their foundation the K-12 Character Education program, Building Good Citizens for Texas.&#160;&#160; This program has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garrett from Bluebonnet Elementary&#39;s 4th grade was asked to speak at the last school board meeting on the topic of Justice. Every month at the Bastrop School Board meetings a student from BISD addresses the school board and attendees on the importance of that month&#39;s character trait. Building Good Citizens for Texas is proud of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December Character Trait – Perseverance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Webster&#8217;s dictionary defines Perseverance this way &#8211; &#8220;to continue a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.&#8221;&#160; Personally, I have never known anyone who did not, at some point in their life, have the need to call on perseverance to successfully overcome a situation.&#160;&#160; What was that situation in your life?&#160; Was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When  Is  It  Bullying?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on bullying emphasized the importance of knowing just what bullying really is!  Sounds simple, doesn’t it? “Bullying is the repeated, constant, oppressive physical and/or psychological behavior towards one person who is seen as less powerful.&#8221;  There is ALWAYS an imbalance of power. “Teasing involves a situation where there is a balance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Education, Prevention and  Positive Youth Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research evidence from many well-designed and conducted studies shows that a more comprehensive approach to character education might be a much more efficient and cost-effective avenue to the prevention of behavior problems of students. Evidence states that this integrated character education format is more beneficial to the schools and the students than the adoption of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proof- Integrated Character Education Programs Work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very encouraged to read a recent report in Journal of Research in Character Education that provides sound evidence indicating the effectiveness of including the character education teaching and modeling of values into all aspects of the school day.The integration of character education into the &#34;whole&#34; student experience is the vital difference that Building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Education Program Spreads To Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Building Good Citizens for Texas, a kindergarten through 12th grade Character Education program, has been introduced in over 400 school districts in Texas. Our character program is an integrative program design, as recommended by the Texas Legislature, and &#8220;The Journal of Research in Character Education&#8221;.&#160; We are proud to announce that our character education program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School Thoughts for Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many of you, today or very soon is the first day of school for the 2009-2010 year.  We wish you success with your students, and a positive experience for you as well. As you greet your students and begin to set your personal standards in the classroom and across the campus, please remember that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May Character Trait – Integrity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Integrity – the character trait that summarizes and includes all the character traits being emphasized during the school year. Even Webster’s Dictionary defines integrity as “completeness, wholeness, or soundness”   All those definitions lead to our choice of Integrity for our Character Education program as the final trait before school dismissal for the summer break. W. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Character Trait – Self Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self Discipline &#8211; demonstrating positive patterns of behavior and having the strength of mental and moral courage to accomplish tasks, manage time, and relate effectively with others. That’s our definition!  What’s yours?  For the perennial dieter, it might include the discipline to refuse that favorite food.  What might it mean for the person dissatisfied with [...]]]></description>
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