Special Projects / Partnerships

Champions For Character

Cardinals Care, in cooperation with CHARACTERplus, sponsors Champions for Character. The award program honors three schools in the metro-wide area that have a school-wide ethos of service learning. The school's service learning must be infused in the curriculum and school life. One elementary, one middle and one high school will be selected.

Please review our tips/guidelines for applying

Post the Champions for Character flyer.

Download the 2011 Champions application.

The three winning schools receive:

• Tickets to a selected spring game for a group of students and staff
• Banner
• Pre-game awards ceremony involving six student representatives
• Schools are featured on the diamond vision big screen during the game

Click here to see a gallery of pictures of service learning in the 2010 winning schools

Three local schools are the 2010 recipients of the Champions for Character: Celebrating Service-Learning award, sponsored by Cardinals Care, the community foundation of the St. Louis Cardinals, in cooperation with CHARACTERplus, a project of the Cooperating School Districts.

To see the 2010 Champions for Character Schools and for more information, please click on the link below

Champions for Character: Celebrating Service Learning

St. Louis Rams “Huddle Up In Advisory” Project

CHARACTERplus and the St. Louis Rams Foundation have partnered for six years to provide resources that increase the awareness of character traits among students and teachers in the St. Louis metropolitan community through videos, posters and a micro-website.

Sharing Students’ Voices Through Laws of Life

CHARACTERplus and STLtoday.com have joined together to publish essays that capture the ideals that area middle and high school students choose to live by. In recent years, students from several schools have participated in the "Laws of Life" writing process. They write about qualities, familiar sayings, or wise quotations that resonate with their values and guide their decisions.

Now, teachers can submit their work for publication on STLtoday.com, a site that receives 9 million page views per week. The student’s essays, compelling and insightful in their own right, remain on the site for one year and are searchable by author, school, topic and tone.

Download the flier for distribution

For more information, please visit www.stltoday.com/characterplus or contact, Diane Stirling at (314) 692-9722 or dstirling@csd.org