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Welcome to the New Jersey Center for Character Education website.
The mission of NJCCE is to provide you with access to high quality
information and professional development resources that will help
you engage in effective character education activity and efforts,
whatever your role in New Jersey’s schools
or communities. New Jersey Receives Partnerships in Character Education Grant
The New Jersey Center for Character Education (NJCCE) and the New Jersey
Department of Education (NJDOE) have been awarded a new four-year federal
grant under the Partnerships in Character Education grant program. The grant
will enable NJCCE to continue to provide technical assistance to schools,
professional development opportunities to educators, and foster local leadership to
advance the state of character education field. The two main goals that the NJDOE will be funding the
NJCCE to provide are: The Network is a forum for sharing information,
research and promising practices. Gain access to national and state
character education experts and programs through conferences, workshops
and e-mails by joining the listserv
[more].
FEATURED ARTICLE  Speech By JUDITH ALBORNOZ, Ed.D., Director of Compliance, Reporting, & Divisional Operations, Division of Pupil Personnel Services, Paterson Public Schools
At the Overcoming Obstacles 2006 Achievement Awards held on November 8th at the Historic Toy Building in
New York City, Dr. Judith Albornoz was presented with an Achievement in Education award for her
accomplishments in public urban education. The Overcoming Obstacles program was launched in 1992 by
the Community for Education Foundation to ensure that all young people learn the communication,
decision making, and goal setting skills they need to be successful in life.
In the following acceptance speech, Dr. Albornoz describes the current challenges in urban education and a
vision for the future.
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Featured Articled Archive (For links to previous Featured Articles, click here) |
NJCCE PARTNERS Creating positive working relationships is at the heart
of effective character education. The following partnerships have been
established in connection with the Memorandum of Understanding between the
New Jersey Department of Education and Rutgers University, which
established the NJCCE through a Partnership in Character Education grant
from the U.S. Department of Education. → Governmental Agency Partners → Collaborating Local Educational Agency Partners → Collaborating Project Partners |
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Provide schools that aspire to improve professional practice and student outcomes with opportunities for development through a year-long collaborative relationship with mentor schools identified as modeling best practices;