Columbia Elementary students present morning show
The Character Education Partnership is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving how character education is taught. They give the Promising Practice Award each year to recognize school programs that take an innovative approach to teaching character education.
The morning show is put on by members of the Character Council. In addition to the show, the group will help with service learning projects and running the school store.
Some of examples of the community service projects are canned food drives, having a recycling club and the Jump Rope For Heart Program.
“It is their opportunity to show leadership,” Cindy Davis, a counselor at Colombia who works closely with the kids on all of these projects, said.
The show is taped once a week between 7:45 to 8:30 a.m. then it is divided up into five to seven minute segments that highlight one character each day and then a new segment is broadcast each day.
Columbia uses a closed circuit television system to continuously broadcast the show all day long. This allows teachers to tune in whenever they have time in their lesson plans.
The program starts off every morning with the two SNN anchors who introduce the character of the day, which will then teach the students about good character.
This month the two anchors are Aby Holtzclaw and Allie Plourd, and the characters are played by Brett Bachelor as Professor James, Michael Samaras as Detective Do the Right Thing, Madeline Raegan as Nurse Columbia , Kylie Thorum as Mother Nature, and the Queen of Character is Lauren Harsken.
