I CARE
Resource Manual K-12
Character Education Program
Table of Contents
Program Components
There is no formal I CARE curriculum. What is
done at Lowell Elementary School may not be appropriate for Byrant Intermediate or West
High Schools. Yet, because all three school faculties and administrations are committed to
I CARE principles, they have willingly shared ideas, lesson plans, and activities.
Many programs have been utilized for implementing the I CARE principles including:
Community of Caring, Peer Court, Improv Group, Law-Related Education, D.A.R.E., Peer
Leadership, Conflict Managers, and Anytown USA. In addition, teachers in each of the three
schools have researched and developed their own lesson plans and activities consistent
with the principles.
This section of the Resource Manual presents kindergarten through twelfth grade activities
that have been used successfully in the three schools. Included are activities that can be
used by students, teachers, parents, the school as a whole, and the community. Activities
are organized around each of the principles--Integrity, Compassion, Action,
Responsibility, and Excellence. Each principle is introduced by a list of synonyms and a
definition and is followed by activities.
In addition to providing ideas and activities that are useful for implementing an I CARE
program, it is hoped that this section will stimulate those who share a commitment to go
beyond these ideas and develop their own activities.
Appendice A: Random Acts of Kindness
Appendice B: Reach Theme
Appendice C: Excellence Work
Appendice D: Class Meeting
Appendice E: I Care Marching Song and I Care Song
Appendice F: Quotations on Character
Appendice G: Social Studies Catalog and Conflict Management Materials
Appendice H: Mini-Anytown
Appendice I: I Care Cheer
Appendice J: Colors of Success
Appendice K: Salt Lake School District Character Education Programs
Quotation
You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case
of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed,
and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children
to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their
minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have
when they are grown up?
We cannot. Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and
unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear
should be models of virtuous thoughts.
Then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive
the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye
and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul
from the earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason.
There can be no nobler training than that.
Plato's Republic
For information concerning the creation
process of the I CARE Manual, contact Marti Frankovich or Joan Coen at Lowell Elementary
School 801-578-8190.
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questions concerning proper use of this material, or if you are interested in obtaining
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This document was submitted for posting to the Internet by the State Character Education
Specialist. Any questions concerning content should be directed to that individual.
Updated October 1 1997 by Michelle Dumas