Leadership for Character - Center for the Study of Ethical Development

The Center led grant work from 2020 to 2026 in the Leadership for Character (LFC) project.

Funded by the Kern Family Foundation and the Superintendent’s Academy, LFC involved working with educational leaders in Alabama to develop virtue-based character education approaches, especially as related to principals and superintendents, both aspiring and existing.

The LFC project aimed to:

cultivate among educational leaders a level of professional practical wisdom that will give them the vision, knowledge, fortitude, and skill to create and maintain ‘just communities’ in schools, whereby the cultivation of students’ characters is the most important aim, achieved through human relationships together with direct and indirect methods of ‘teaching’ and reflection.

Our Leadership for Character Framework can be found here.

The legacy of this work is being advanced under the leadership of Dr. Ben White, who is a member of the Educational Leadership Department and is Director of the Superintendent’s Academy at UA.