October

• Building our LACCS community through grounding in our “why” and getting to know who is in the room. 
• Reviewing the 11 Principles of Effective Character Education with real life examples presented by Colin Jacobs and Jofee Tremain.
• Completing an 11 Principles Assessment to identify where each organization needs support and how specifically they can grow.
• Meeting your organization’s personalized Character Coach who will lead and guide your year-long LACCS experience. 

November

• Growing our knowledge and familiarity of the 11 Principles with Character expert Dr. Marvin Berkowitz. 
• Studying PRIMED, Dr. Berkowitz's Framework for achieving an organization of character. 
• Building an action plan catered to each individual organization that’s centered around the 11 Principles.
• Learning from organizations who have won awards for Promising Practices.

December

• Continuing our study of the 11 Principles with Character expert Dr. Marvin Berkowitz. 
• Studying PRIMED, Dr. Berkowitz's Framework for achieving an organization of character. 
• Examining theories of change to nurture growth in our organizations. 
• Refining our 11 Principles action plan for continuous improvement. 

January

• Theme: Principle #4- Creating a caring community of adults.
• Thriving Under Stress with Andy Vitrano.
• Receiving Compassion/Resilience Training with experts from Rodgers.
• Refining our 11 Principles action plan based on expert speakers.
• Working alongside your personalized character coach. 

February

• Theme: Principle #4- Creating caring relationships between students and adults.  
• Training on relationship building with expert Alexs Pate 
• Refining our 11 Principles action plan based on expert speakers. 
• Working alongside your personalized character coach.

March

• Theme: Empowering student voice 
• Hearing from a panel of leaders from Professional Dimensions 
• Refining our 11 Principles action plan based on expert speakers.
• Working alongside your personalized character coach.

April

• Theme: Achieving equity within our organizations  
• Hearing from champions for equity Deanna Singh and Jeremy Triblett.  
• Revisiting our 11 Principles Assessment to gauge year-long growth. 
• Working alongside your personalized character coach.

May

• Presentations from each organization, including year-long reflections.    
• Celebrating participants’ successes and growth.