Month: April 2018

Students join Hope Squads to help struggling classmates through depression, trauma

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Students at Ohio’s Lakota West and Lakota East high schools are stepping up to help struggling classmates in their time of need as part of a new Hope Squad program to prevent teen suicide.

About four dozen students filed into a recent meeting at Lakota West, where Hope Squad CEO Greg Hudnall explained how the program works. Hudnall created Hope Squads after a student committed suicide during his time as a principal for the Provo City School District, which went from one or two suicides per year to a full 15 years without a single suicide.

School researchers note that there is a widespread weakening of social support surrounding contemporary students. Researchers at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture found that “There is considerable evidence that strong social support contributes crucially, if not decisively, to their academic success in schools, whether the support comes from parents, and family, youth organizations, or religious organizations. The thickness of social ties also bears positively on the formation of a stable self-identity and, by extension, a child’s moral character.”

The Cincinnati nonprofit Grant Us Hope worked to bring Hope Squads to local schools this year. The idea is to empower students with strong character to work as peer counselors who reach out to classmates struggling through depression or trauma. Hudnall explained that seven out of 10 youngsters who commit suicide tell a friend or show warning signs beforehand, and the Hope Squads aim to intervene before it’s too late, WCPO.

Local teachers and administrators surveyed students to identify their most trusted and accessible classmates, then invited those students to participate in the Hope Squads. Students who volunteer receive training in how to spot students in trouble, and guidance on how to help. One of the first lessons focuses on what’s called QPR – an acronym for question, persuade and refer – as well as other issues like setting boundaries, different stages of grief, and the impact of bullying on suicidal thoughts, according to WTHI.

“I think it will make a huge difference to make sure everybody has a safe place to talk to someone,” said Alyssa Longworth, a Lakota East junior who recently lost a relative to suicide.

Both Longworth and Lakota West junior Logan Grimes, who also lost a relative to suicide, said they’re eager to get started.

“I have confidence once I get the training and once I get through the whole program, I’ll be able to go through it with ease,” Grimes said. “I feel it will help our school be more understanding.”

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

 

 

Middle schooler wins $1,000, then creates essay contest to honor local veterans

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JoLane Middle School student Marin Gray recently won $1,000 in the VFW Patriot’s Pen statewide essay contest, and the Oregon 13-year-old’s first instinct was to give something back to veterans. So Gray created her own essay contest by inviting local middle school students to explain why they’re grateful for local military veterans who fought to protect their freedoms, The News-Review reports.

A total of 26 students submitted essays, which were judged by Roseburg High School Principal Jill Weber and local veteran Neil Hummel. The top five finishers were invited to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Patrick W. Kelley Post 2468 in Roseburg to read their work to veterans in person this month.

Geneva Academy student Jonathon Jacobsen took home the top prize and $100. His essay pointed to how soldiers “have protected us from many dangers that might have befallen us,” from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan.

“Because of them we are unscathed and living in peace,” he wrote. “Those that have completed their service deserve respect from us all.”

Gray also read “America’s Gift to My Generation,” her Patriot’s Pen essay, which focused on how soldiers paid the ultimate price for upholding America’s ideals. Sacrificing for what’s right, she wrote, is an American tradition dating back to the Revolutionary War. “Unpaid and unfed, this nation’s first soldiers fought because they believed that the choir of ‘We the People’ held more power to influence our destiny than the voice of a king,” Gray said.

Local vets loved the event.

“I want to thank all the kids, the young people, for just knowing what some of these guys have gone through,” said Bill Johnson, a chaplain who helps vets in recovery.

“When I came back from Vietnam, I didn’t get anything. I got spit on,” Joe Wouters told The News-Review. “These kids are at least welcoming us home.”

Gray’s essay contest is the third event she’s organized over the last two years to help students and others in her community. She organized a Kindle giveaway to Eastwood Elementary School students in December when the library closed. She also created a cultural awareness program last year called Building Respect and Value for Everyone (BRAVE) to bring in presenters from 16 nations to speak to hundreds of local sixth-graders about appreciating different cultures and about bullying, according to the news site.

This story highlights how a service ethos within a school can expand especially as the attitude towards service is expressed in a range of practices and routinized actions. Even mandated community service can create a change in attitude. Researchers at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture found that even when “its value was questioned by students and parents, community service was an important part of the school’s moral ecology and an important way to reinforce the school’s ethical mission.” The experience of Marin Gray form the basis of an expanding array of service activities.

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

 

UK poll finds 80 percent of teachers believe character education improves grades

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A new poll of teachers in the United Kingdom shows the vast majority believe that a greater focus on character education would have a positive influence on student academics.

Researchers with Populus and the University of Birmingham’s Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues asked 450 working teachers about the potential impact of more character education in schools, and defined character education as developing “positive strengths such as honesty, confidence, and critical thinking,” Phys.org reports.

The survey also asked whether it’s important for students to “understand what is ethically important in difficult situations and how to choose the right course of action.”

Researchers questioned teachers in a wide variety of British schools, from public schools to faith-based schools to academy, special, alternative and independent schools. They also sampled educators from different seniority levels.  Overall, 80 percent of teachers across the UK agreed that character education is important.

“This poll provides a further indication from teachers that a greater focus on character education in schools would not only help to develop the skills young people need when venturing out into the work world, but also help to improve academic achievement,” said James Arthur, Jubilee Centre director.

According to Phys.org:

The survey findings show that whilst only 1 in 3 teachers are aware of their school having a specific character education policy in place, provision for character development is currently delivered through a number of routes.

The two most commonly reported by teachers were PSHE/ Citizenship classes (58 percent), and as part of the ‘whole-school ethos’ (48 percent).

However, when asked where they thought such provision should be delivered to have the greatest effect, whole-school ethos was the most popular option at 65 percent, with the other two most popular responses being PSHE/ Citizenship (56 percent), and through all curriculum subjects (47 percent).

“These findings also corroborate previous Jubilee Centre research that has highlighted the transformational impact that placing character at the heart of a school’s ethos can have,” Arthur said.

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture has worked closely with the UK-based Jubilee Center. While we can celebrate the greater openness to character education within UK schools, one would also have to caution against making a utilitarian argument for character education. Implicit in character is the “story of living for a purpose that is greater than the self. Though this purpose resides deeply within, its origins are outside the self and so it beckons one forward, channeling one’s passions to mostly quiet acts of devotion, heroism, sacrifice, and achievement.”

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

 

State lawmakers move to enshrine ‘In God We Trust’ in schools

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Lawmakers in several states are moving legislation to enshrine the nation’s motto – “In God We Trust” – in schools and other public buildings to remind students about what’s most important.

In Tennessee, lawmakers approved a bill last month to require schools to prominently display In God We Trust and the measure now awaits Gov. Bill Haslam’s signature. Arkansas approved a similar law, now Act 911, that requires schools to display posters with the motto, as well as the state and U.S. flags, when the posters are donated.

It’s a similar situation in Florida, where schools are now mandated to display In God We Trust, though it’s also the state motto and part of the Florida flag.

Legislators in South Carolina, Wyoming, Arizona, Alabama, Oklahoma and other states are considering similar requirements, despite the objections from  groups that deem the motto state-sponsored religion.

“When we took God out of schools, we took the 10 Commandments out of schools. When I was a kid, it was on the principal’s wall outside,” South Carolina state Rep. Mike Burns told Lumen Student News. Burns said the central focus on God created “a stabilizing effect in society” because students “knew what was right versus wrong.”

“When we took all that out, look where we’ve evolved to,” he said. “Instead of having God in schools, now we have bullet-proof glass and we’ve got to have metal detectors. It’s sad that we’ve evolved to this negative place that we are, and now we’ve got to try to fight our way out of it.”

“In God We Trust” first appeared on U.S. currency in 1864, and President Dwight Eisenhower officially made it the nation’s motto in 1956. Many Republican and Democrat lawmakers agree that faith in a higher power is something students should understand.

“Our national motto is on our money. It’s on our license plates. It’s part of our national anthem,” Tennessee State Rep. Susan Lynn told Breitbart. “Our national motto and founding documents are cornerstones of freedom, and we should teach our children about these things.”

“God isn’t a Republican, and He’s not a Democrat … He is the light, and our schools need light in them like never before,” Florida Democrat Kimberly Daniels, sponsor of The Sunshine State’s bill, told WLTX.

Many of these symbolic debates within public schools are reflective of the larger culture wars. With the rise of pluralism, these debates have grown. Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture sociologist James Davison Hunter has not only outlined the parameters of the culture war, but has also suggest ways forward to address its growing challenge. In Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace: The Religious Liberty Clauses and American Public Philosophy, he writes, “In the end, the religious clauses of the First Amendment concern both rights and responsibilities—the right to live according to the convictions of conscience without state interference and coercion, and the responsibility to respect that right for others, including the repudiation of all direct and indirect patronage of the state, whether for others or oneself.”

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre.  In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

 

MT teens learn real life lessons through student-run business

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Sidney Fox, coach for the Little Braves basketball team, asked local high schoolers to design and print team shirts with a logo created by his father, but he wasn’t sure what to expect.

“They were able to bring it to life,” Fox told KTVQ. “I was kind of expecting something like a beginner. But when I first seen this, I was amazed. It looked professionally done, like I ordered it from an online company. I was really surprised.”

In reality, Fox did order the shirts from a professional company: Braves Ink.

The business is almost entirely run by students at St. Labre High School, a Roman Catholic school that serves students from Montana’s Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes. Instructor Robyn Lei started the program to help students take ownership of their work in a real-world environment, a situation that’s offers practical lessons about business, character, responsibility and community pride.

The student business started small, but initial sales, training from a local printing company, and a grant from Congressman Greg Gianforte helped Braves Ink to upgrade equipment and expand. St. Labre teens design and print shirts for the school’s athletic teams, memorials for lost loved ones, and others, sometimes on short deadlines.

Students learn best from hands on experience. Researchers at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture found that when the “moral and missional ethos of a school was reinforced through a range of practices, or routinized actions—some formal, some informal—all oriented toward giving tangible expression of the school’s values and believes,” the moral endowments of the school are strengthened.

Senior Bree Deputee handles the finances, while senior Jayson Fisher focuses on technology and others work the presses. Students sometimes put in long hours, and are rewarded with pizza or other treats when they hit big deadlines. At the end of the year, Braves Ink profits are paid out to students in the form of college scholarships, KTVQ reports.

“We work hands-on with stuff instead of sitting at a desk,” Fisher said. “We learn things that are useful for business by actually doing it, learning through trial and error.”

“Some days we have a deadline, like a strict deadline and I have to help other people,” he said. “It’s hard work, but I like doing that.”

Lei told KTVQ he’s also learned a lot from students who “work so hard and really put their hearts into it,” adding that they’re eager to build on their progress.

“It’s something I would wanna do when I get older, run my own business,” student Camron Spotted Elk told the news site. “I can design these T-shirts and sell them at powwows.”

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

Student starts birthday tradition to help the homeless

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Fresno State University senior Jasmine Castillo started a tradition for her 21st birthday, and it’s since turned into a family affair that’s also inspired her 7-year-old sister to serve.

The public health administration major decided four years ago she would rather spend her 21st birthday helping others than celebrating by having her first legal adult beverage, so she launched a fundraiser online called “Jaz’s Birthday Wish” to buy toiletries for the Poverello House homeless shelter in downtown Fresno.

“For me growing up, people always wanted to drink,” Castillo told The Collegian. “And I was just like, it was never a thing for me. Why do we have to do that?” “How about we do something more positive?” she said. “More beneficial.”

For the first couple of years Castillo delivered supplies to the Poverello House on her birthday, simply dropping off the donations. But in 2017 she decided to take a more active role, and recruited family to personally hand out packages of toiletries, as well water and burritos.

This year Castello raised $356.25 to buy ingredients to make 290 burritos and make 284 packs of toiletries. She spent her birthday cooking up the burritos with an assembly line of family helping out, including her 7-year-old sister.

“I want to signify that I’m here to help, that I want to make a change,” she said. “I’m always telling my family I’m going to change the world.”

Dulce Sora, a friend of Castello’s from Edison High School, told The Collegian the birthday tradition is just one of several ways her friend reaches out to help the less fortunate in the community. Castello also volunteers with the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Saint Agnes Medical Center, and was recognized by District 31 Assemblyman Henry Perea in 2012 as “Woman of the Year” for her efforts.

“It didn’t just start. She’s always been involved through programs like this, or she’s always tried to help everybody,” Sora said. “If they need help, she always wants to be the first one there.”

Researchers at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture asked, “What accounts for a diversity of moral commitments?” “Why would one youngster avoid the homeless person and another either help him with money or talk with him about his problems?” Social scientists typically favor a range of background factors, such as race, class, and gender to account for such differences. But against this, the child’s “underlying attachment to a moral culture was the single most important and consistent factor in explaining the variation in their moral judgments.”

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the Centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

Canadian bus crash survivor may never walk again, but wants to do his part to improve the world

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In mid-April, Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki woke up to a devastating sight – dozens of teammates and others lying dead and injured in the wreckage of the team bus along a Canadian highway.

“It was pretty devastating seeing my teammates lying there, bloodied and whatnot,” he told CBC News. “My first instinct was to get up and help them, but I couldn’t move my legs.”

Over the next few days Straschnitzki learned that 10 of his junior college teammates, and six others on board the bus died in the collision with a semi-truck north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan. The tragic crash, which reverberated throughout the world, left Straschnitzki with a broken neck, back and left clavicle, and he’s now paralyzed from the neck down.

Doctor’s don’t believe he’ll ever walk again, but the 18-year-old defenseman said there was also another, perhaps more profound, change.

CBC News reports:

Straschnitzki views his survival as a second chance from God, an opportunity to do his part to improve the world in whatever way he can.

Hockey is the obvious answer, he said, adding that he has expressed an interest in continuing his sports career in sledge hockey. Becoming a public speaker is another potential avenue.

Straschnitzki told Global News he’s unsure when he’ll be able to head home to Alberta, but the support from his family and others since the crash is lifting his spirits and keeping him hopeful for the future.

James Davison Hunter in his seminal book, The Death of Character, found that a “child’s underlying attachment to a moral culture were the most important and consistent factor in explaining the variation in their moral judgments.” Even when subjected to rigorous statistical analysis, the conclusion is the same: the moral culture children were living within was the most important determinant of their behavioral predispositions.

“I’m pretty tired and pretty sore, but with the positive thoughts and with the support I’m getting I can pretty much deal with anything at this point,” he said.

During recovery, Straschnitzki said he’s simply focused on getting well and returning to hockey, while offering lessons from his experience to others going through struggles.

“I’m just going to not dwell on the past and do what my body is capable of doing,” he said. “Hopefully get on the ice again and play the sport I love, no matter what.”

And while Straschnitzki told the Calgary Sun he’s “just happy to be alive,” he’s already working toward a goal of one day making the Olympic sledge hockey team – a focus on the future he hopes will send a message to others struggling through life: “It gets better … Don’t give up …”

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

Academics lament eroding college culture’s negative impacts on character, marriage, families

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Two veteran academics are ringing the alarms about the behavior and mindset of college students in America today, pointing to a “profoundly unintellectual” environment rife with sexual promiscuity that’s undermining marriages and families.

Former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz and Vigen Guroian, professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, presented their thoughts at a recent conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, The College Fix reports.

Deresiewicz argued that many students seemingly lack passion and “aren’t trained to pay attention to the things they feel connected to.”

The former Yale professor, who also taught at Columbia University, contends many American universities have become “profoundly unintellectual” because students are more focused on the process of learning and “accumulating gold stars,” which means they “don’t have time for intellectual curiosity.”

Students, he said, “can’t think for themselves because they don’t have time.”

The result is students who have told Deresiewicz “’I hate all my activities, I hate all my classes, I hated high school, and I expect to hate my job,’” he told students. Higher education, Deresiewicz believes, now produces “a large number of mentally smart, (but) situationally confused graduates.”

“You might as well go to Wall Street and make a lot of money if you have nothing better to do,” he said.

These concerns echo those expressed recently by James Davison Hunter, executive director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture who spoke at the Baylor University’s Institute for Faith and Learning recently. Hunter warned, “In an effort to establish a neutral and inclusive moral paradigm, the moral universe is emptied of all particularities that make it binding on the conscience…. An inclusive morality tends to reduce morality to the thinnest of platitudes.”

Guroian, author of controversial Christianity Today article “Dorm Brothel,” spoke about the how what’s becoming a collegiate sexual free-for-all is eroding the moral fabric of traditional courtship and marriage, leading to rising divorce rates.

“I believe that the college experience has an impact on the marriages our children make,” he said.

In the past, college was a place where many people found their spouse, Guroian said, but it now more resembles “a parent-funded motel party.”

“Dating has taken a back seat,” he said. “Where courtship languishes, marriage weakens.”

Hunter reminds us that communities grounded in the particularities of religion have the capacity to form moral character substantive enough to deal with life’s ethical challenges.

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

 

American Legion connects students with local officials during County Government Day

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Veterans recently teamed up with the American Legion to introduce high school students to the intimate workings of county government, an annual tradition that connects students with public officials in their community.

John Brehm, director of Veterans Affairs for Scotts Bluff and Banner counties, worked with the American Legion to bring in high school civics students from Scottsbluff, Gering, Mitchell and Morrill into county courthouses and government buildings for introductions in March, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald reports.

The day-long field trip dubbed County Government Day included a flag presentation and remarks from former American Legion state commander Beth Linn, as well as a mock trial with county Judge Kris Mickey.

“Your local government is the foundation of this country,” Linn said. “Whatever happens at your local government affects you for the rest of your life and affects what happens at the regional level.”

Research at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture suggests the importance of this kind of hands on informal education in local civics. Experience is always the best teacher. Case studies consistently show, states Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture leaders James Hunter and Ryan Olson, “the importance of the informal articulation of a moral culture through the example of teachers and other adults in the school community.”

“We know that these guys are our future and we’ve got to get them educated,” Beth Linn told the news site. “We’re a non-partisan organization. We don’t care whichever way they vote, they just need to know the basics so they can be educated.”

Scottsbluff High School social studies teacher Matt Parsley told the Star-Herald the event offers a lot more than simply an opportunity for his American government students to gain valuable real life experience with county officials.

“I also think there’s a patriotic side to it, that they understand service,” he said. “I think they gain some respect for the Legion and those who have served in the military.”

Mitchell junior Hunter Lenley said he learned a lot at the County Government Day, particularly during a presentation by a local probation officer.

“He did a really good job of explaining everything,” Lenley said. “I really didn’t understand how probation and all that works, but he really explained how the states of probation goes.”

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre.  In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how the Centre views it work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and society.”

Student robotics team helps Iraq War veteran develop prosthetic hand

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Students on the Beyer High School robotics team wanted to make a difference, and an Iraq War veteran from Stockton is grateful for their efforts.

The Modesto, California students recently presented Jose Jauregui with a prosthetic hand they designed from scratch with the goal of helping the veteran to play softball again. Jauregui lost his left hand during an explosion in Iraq in 2005, and a doctor familiar with the robotics team’s work connected him with the students, KCRA reports.

The team wanted to design a hand that was strong enough to catch a ball and lean enough to fit inside a baseball glove, but their first 3-D printed hand didn’t quite fit the bill. With their second iteration, Jauregui managed to play catch with students in April.

“Going into it we didn’t know much, it was hard to figure everything out, which is why we had to go through a second attempt, making sure that the numbers were right,” junior Mark Wright told CBS Sacramento.

Students are still working to finalize their design, but Jauregui said he’s looking forward to doing a lot of things he couldn’t before. “I think, it would be amazing, this is just the beginning really,” he said. “It’s advancing so fast.”

“I think it’s really cool that they’re involved in stuff like this. It looks hard to do and really time consuming,” Jauregui told KCRA. “I appreciate that they’re doing this for me. Hopefully, we get a lot of use out of this.”

Moral development researcher Jeffrey Guhin suggests that sometimes there is a tension between self-actualization and compassion. Jeffrey Guhin, writing in The Content of Their Character, concludes, “Compassion only makes sense to the degree that it is a means to self-actualizing.” Here the concrete nature of assisting Jose Jauregui with a hand clearly connected the dots.

Freshman Danielle Haubrich said she’s already learned a valuable lesson.

“It’s almost indescribable being able to see that you’re making a change,” she said, “not only for someone, but also to change the community in the process.”

Haubrich told Fox 40 she hopes the project will inspire others “to overcome these limitations by using science, technology, engineering, 3D printing, to make themselves these prosthetics.”

Jauregui and the robotics team aren’t the only ones who recognize the potential.

The project also received honors at the Idaho Regional FIRST Robotics Competition in April, according to the news site.

Teachers and principals working to strengthen moral and citizenship formation in their students can find information and strategies at the UK’s The Jubilee Centre. In The Jubilee Centre’s own words, the following illustrates how they view their work.  “The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.  The Centre is a leading informant on policy and practice through its extensive range of projects contributes to a renewal of character virtues in both individuals and societies.

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