Celebrating the unique leadership abilities of all students - empowering them to challenge the cycle of marginalization in their schools and community

The Character Education Leadership Project's (CELP) overall goal is to provide students the opportunity to develop their own unique leaderhip skills while working within their schools to challenge maginalizaation and support an inclusive and tolerant environment. Because each school is as unique as each individual student, CELP works with schools to help create leadership opportunities that best fit the school's environment.

Founding Principles:

While no school or student is immune to marginalization, members of the school community have the potential and power to create inclusive environments.

Students are the experts in marginalization in the schools environment, and given a voice have ability to effectively address these issues.

Each student has unique leadership abilities that are easily discovered and developed.

Projects and programs are only successful if they are meaningful to students.

Programs are most effective when students have established ownership of the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and projects.

Self efficacy and Collective efficacy empowers student involvment and success and is empowered by knowledge, connection, and practice.