The Principled Academy: Celebrate Our Spring Milestone Together — Mose Durst

Dear Friends, Reflecting on the past year, I’m filled with gratitude for our incredible journey together. Thanks to your support, our vision—to raise a generation grounded in empathy, integrity, and kindness—is blooming!

I’m especially excited to share this spring that we’ve reached a milestone: 200 stories and 100 activities! These resources are tools to spark curiosity and build character, and I can’t wait to see how they’ll continue to make a difference in homes and classrooms everywhere.

Here’s to a season of growth.

Health and happiness always, Isaac Durst Director, Values & Virtues

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Values & Virtues is an online character education resource for educators and parents. Our mission is to build a world filled with ethical, loving, and compassionate human beings.

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Values & Virtues is a resource of impactful stories, questions, and thoughtful activities for educators, coaches, and parents.

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What We Offer Explore our twelve highlighted virtues for grade levels from Pre-Kindergarten (ages 4-5) to Sixth grade (ages 10-11). Each virtue includes at least four captivating read-aloud stories, most available as engaging video content.

Every story is paired with guiding questions, featuring: • A definition of the virtue • A summary of the book • Learning objectives • Guiding questions to enhance comprehension and application of the virtue

Our Values & Virtues Find easy-to-use, supportive resources that nurture your child’s emotional, behavioral, and social well-being, helping them thrive in every aspect of their growth.

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•• WHY CHARACTER EDUCATION?

How Families, Educators, and Communities Raise Good Children

We want ch ildren to develop the ir intellect to 1dent1ty moral issues 1n complex s1tuat1ons.

Furt her, we want them to underst and how t o manage their emotions. We need t o provide opportunities for children to engage in meaningful acts of service that benefit others.

Research shows t hat, on the foundation of moral excellence, children achieve academic success and perform signif icant ly better than their peers at each grade level.

Every part of the learning environment offers opportunities to model and practice virtuous behavior. Simple daily acts, like a warm morning greeting or a kind smile, set the t one for fostering charact er.

Children can learn to build positive relationships by collaborating on science projects or engaging in group activities. Educators and caregivers can model the care and respect they hope to inspire in chi ldren.

Because parent s, guardians, and caregivers make the greatest impact on children’s lives, schools and learning programs must work closely with them to support the development of character. In addition, schools should co llaborate with communit y organizations where children can experience and contribute to genuine acts of service.

The school and broader learning community should serve as a model for society.

What great er need does our nation have than intelligent, et hical, and caring individuals who are dedicated to the common good?

Character education lays the foundation for strong families, public civility, const ructive dialogue, and the ideals of justice and compassion. These val ues can be nurtured every day within classrooms and communities.

How to use this site

01 Navigate to the “Our Values And Virtues” page

02 Select one of the Virtues

03 Select a Grade Level

04 Choose any Story you want, then Click on “Read Story”

05 Listen to or Read the Story

Click on “Guiding Questions” if you would like to access 06 our Discussion Questions

Click on “Begin Activities” to find the Activities that 07 correspond to each Story or Virtue