Character Education
An important component of the Park Tudor School experience is an extensive character education program.
The program, designed to be age-appropriate at each grade level, helps our students learn to be:
- Responsible, respectful and resourceful members of the community, and
- Confident, motivated and comfortable in adult settings.
The Upper School’s character education program includes:
- An extensive student-led service-learning program
- Student advisory program that focuses on developing students' team building, communication, leadership, group dynamics and study skills
- Annual freshman and senior retreats that build sense of community and teamwork
- Upper School student-led Honor Council, which implements programs to highlight the Upper School's motto of "Scholarship, Integrity, Respect"
- Special programs on drug and alcohol awareness, making healthy choices, and technology safety
- Student-led conferences with parents and advisors
- Student leadership conferences and opportunities
- 9th grade health curriculum that covers a series of character education topics such as self-respect, self-esteem, values, conceit, character, self-control, moderation and delayed gratification
- An Ethics course – an elective for students in grades 10-12 that focuses on understanding why individuals and/or groups make certain moral choices