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School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports And Character Education Quality Standards The following is an integrated outline of School Wide Positive Behavior Supports and the Character Education Quality Standards Self-Assessment Tool for Schools and Districts, developed by the Character Education Partnership, 2006. For more detailed instructions and scoring guide please refer to the CEP Quality Standards Assessment Tool. Special thanks to the Florida Positive Behavior Supports: (FLPBS) project for their technical assistance and collaboration with Pinellas County Schools in the implementation of Positive Behavior Supports and the integration of Character Education. An objective and non-biased evaluator should score these items on the following scale: 0 Not evident or visible; poor 1 Some implementation 2 Good implementation 3 Very good implementation 4 Exemplary implementation NOTE: Each of the eleven principles is in bold italics. Items highlighted in bold in each of the eleven principle indicators is aligned to FLPBS critical element links for School Wide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS). Descriptions of these aligned critical element links are provided in the final box of each principle. 1.0 Promotes core ethical values as the basis of good character. 1.1 The school community has agreed upon or given assessment to the core ethical values (or virtues, positive character traits, pillars, principles, or thematic words that form an umbrella for ethical content) it promotes in its character education initiative. The school community develops definitions of its core ethical values in terms of observable behaviors 1.2 The school has made deliberate and effective efforts to make its core ethical values, the justification for them, and their behavioral definitions wi