Filling Your Bucket: Community Service and Legacy Projects
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Heartland Education Community, Inc. is a nonprofit supporting the Orrville City School District, focusing on a community-driven approach to education emphasizing five core beliefs: community, connecting learning to life, critical thinking, character development, and continuous improvement. A character education program promotes ethics and values through monthly shared values, community involvement, and various outreach initiatives like 'Character Education Week.' The initiative aims to enhance the school atmosphere while encouraging students to embody and recognize good character.
Filling Your Bucket: Community Service and Legacy Projects
- 1. Presented by Beverly Waseman - Orrville Elementary Principal Dave Sovacool - Orrville High School Principal
- 2. Background • Heartland Education Community, Inc. is a nonprofit 501( c)(3) developed in 1991 as a supporting organization for the Orrville City School District • Heartland Steering Committee incorporates members from a cross section of the community www.heartlandorrville.com
- 3. Heartland Consortium • Institute for Global Ethics • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation • Kepner-Tregoe • Kettering Foundation • Kent State University • University of Akron, Wayne College • College of Wooster • The J. M. Smucker Company • Orrville City Schools • City of Orrville www.heartlandorrville.com
- 4. Foundation of Heartland Shift the focus from school to education and shift the responsibility from school to community www.heartlandorrville.com
- 5. Basic Beliefs - The Five C’s • Community • Connecting Learning to Life • Critical Thinking • Character Development • Continuous Improvement www.heartlandorrville.com
- 6. Character Education • The “C” of Character Development becomes Character Education program ̶ Increase understanding of ethics and values ̶ Improve school building atmosphere ̶ Encompasses community • Shared values defined ̶ Community consensus through IGE ̶ More than 300 community members participated www.heartlandorrville.com
- 7. Words of the Month • One shared value featured each month ̶ Originally nine words for school year only ̶ Three additional words to continue the concept all year www.heartlandorrville.com • January - Self-Control • February – Commitment • March – Fairness • April – Moral Courage • May – Cooperation • June – Sportsmanship* • July – Patriotism* • August – Integrity* • September – Honesty • October – Respect • November – Responsibility • December - Compassion
- 8. Words of the Month • Communicating the words ̶ Student posters in school buildings and around the community ̶ Character banners in downtown Orrville ̶ Character words and events featured in OrrViews Community Paper ̶ Character Education Week with theme www.heartlandorrville.com
- 9. Character Education Week • Theme each year to engage students • Kick-off at home football game • Community service project www.heartlandorrville.com
- 10. Helping Hands Build Good Character www.heartlandorrville.com
- 11. All Aboard the Character Express www.heartlandorrville.com
- 12. Filling Your Bucket with Good Character www.heartlandorrville.com
- 15. Part of the Culture www.heartlandorrville.com • Visual demonstration (also used in the Middle School) • “Have you filled a bucket today?”
- 16. Award Winning Character www.heartlandorrville.com • Builds upon Orrville designation • Encourage students to behave in an award winning manner • Will award students for practicing good character • Will encourage students to acknowledge the good character of others