New to KPCEL? Explore helpful frameworks and resources to get started
These materials are offered as a starting point for exploration and dialogue. Some community members engage with these frameworks in diverse ways—some adopt them directly, others adapt them to their specific contexts, and many have developed their own complementary approaches that reflect their unique institutional needs and values. We encourage you to explore these resources and connect with other KPCEL community members to discover the approaches that resonate most meaningfully with your work.
This collection will continue to evolve through ongoing dialogue with community members to ensure it reflects the breadth of valuable resources available.
Jubilee Centre Framework for Character Education in Schools
This comprehensive framework organizes character development around four categories of virtues—intellectual, moral, civic, and performance—working together toward practical wisdom. It advocates for teaching strategies across character “caught, taught, and sought” approaches. The framework has been adopted by PK-12 schools and higher education institutions internationally and is designed to be flexible rather than prescriptive, making it adaptable to diverse institutional contexts.
Lamb, Brant, and Brooks’ Seven Strategies for Character Development
This framework synthesizes research from philosophy, psychology, and education to identify seven evidence-based strategies: habituation through practice, reflection on personal experience, engagement with virtuous exemplars, dialogue that increases virtue literacy, awareness of situational variables, moral reminders, and friendships of mutual accountability.
Marvin Berkowitz’ PRIMED Model
PRIMED synthesizes decades of research into six evidence-based principles: Prioritization, Relationships, Intrinsic Motivation, Modeling, Empowerment, and Developmental Pedagogy. The model offers a comprehensive guide for shaping purposeful learning environments and provides practical, field-tested strategies that balance academic rigor with user-friendliness.
Character.org’s 11 Principles Framework
The 11 Principles serve as guideposts to plan, implement, assess, and sustain character development initiatives within PK-12 schools. The framework addresses all aspects of school life including culture and climate, social-emotional learning, student engagement, and provides schools with assessment tools to measure progress and set benchmarks for continuous improvement.
Jubilee Centre’s Integrating Character and Wellbeing Education in Schools
This practical model demonstrates how character education and wellbeing education can work together to enhance student flourishing. It introduces the Integrated Character and Wellbeing Theoretical Model and the RIPPLE practical approach, providing school leaders and teachers with tools to structure, reflect on, and integrate both character and wellbeing initiatives. The document complements the Jubilee Centre Framework and is designed to be adapted to the unique needs, priorities, and ethos of individual schools.
Character.org’s National Guidelines for Character and Social-Emotional Development (CSED)
The National Guidelines for Character and Social-Emotional Development (CSED) offer an integrative framework that brings together character strengths and social-emotional competencies.
