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The CAEC Mission

  • To serve as a resource for administrators, teachers, and parents as they seek to fulfill their responsibilities as moral educators.
  • To foster more research initiatives and publications on moral and character education, not only by Boston University's faculty and students, but also by the national and international community.
  • To foster the preparation of teachers who can provide students with an intellectual framework for the discussion, understanding, and practice of core virtues of our society.
  • To stimulate a national dialogue on issues of moral education, thus encouraging and helping educators become more competent in the study of ethics and character in the nation's schools.


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Boston University's Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character offers lessons and methodologies to help teach virtue to students.

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lesson plans for animal farm - kit for a complete unit on the novel

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Animal Farm Teaching Unit Kit

Everything you need to teach a full or partial unit on Animal Farm Help your students dive into the modern relevance, m...

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Romeo and Juliet Teaching Unit Kit

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Romeo and Juliet Teaching Unit Kit

A complete teaching kit for a full or partial unit on Romeo and Juliet Take your students on a thought-provoking, insig...

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National Poetry Month Themed Packet for High School

To celebrate Poetry Month, this resource shares 3 activities that will help high school students to engage with poetry i...

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Character Education: Teaching Virtue

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Character Education: Bringing Character Education to Life

More Character Education from BU CAEC Ten Ways to Bring Character Education to Life Selected from, 100 Ways to Bring Cha...

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Character Education: Universal Golden Rule

More Character Education from BU CAEC The Universal Golden RuleSome form of the Golden Rule exists in almost every cultu...

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Defining Genocide

by Borgna Brunner   genocide: from the Greek genos, meaning race; and the Latin suffix -cidium, meaning killing A...

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Alice Stone Blackwell

Library of Congress, Prints and PhotographsAlice Stone Blackwell 1857-1950American feministBorn in Orange, NJGraduated f...

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Character Education: George Washington Carver

More Character Education from BU CAEC George Washington Carver – DedicationNinety-nine percent of the failures come fr...

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