The NCEC's Values in Action! Network is a group made up of over 5000 schools worldwide. These schools have made a strong commitment to the development of purpose centered, value based, and ethical decision makers.

Chief Executive Officer
Gene Bedley, is currently the CEO and founder of the Bureau, served for over 32 years as a public school teacher, school principal, and Director of Curriculum in a K-12 school district. He was chosen as the National Outstanding Education of the Year in 1985 by the National PTA. He received the Milken Family Foundation's National Educator Award in 1994, plus the National Rotary Paul Harris Award in 1997. These awards were presented for his pioneering work in value based education.

We offer schools a state of art ethics education web site and numerous resources which includes the following:

1. A free On Line Newsletters entitled The Best in Ethics Education.

2. Dozens of Student and teacher "Ethic Links."

3. A comprehensive Parent Participation Program which includes 94 objectives, solutions, and strategies.

4. A comprehensive Character Education Program for grades K-12 entitled Values in Action! This program was developed and has been successfully implemented over the last 25 years. The research,which evaluated this program, followed 385 students for a 20 year period. It includes ongoing active research. It is the longest longitudinal study in America to access the impact of character education in the life of its student participants.

Staff Development
Gene Bedley and his associates are responsible for training over 900,000 teachers, parents, and administrators in seminars on

• Responsibility
• Respect
• Strengthening Character in the Classroom
• The Seven Core Ethical Virtues that contribute the most to character.

Evaluation Checklist by Components

• Review character education plan for school/district.
• Make preliminary on site visit orientation interview.
• Conduct interviews with leadership team/staff/parents.
• Review plan and implementation
• Review needs assessment and data base used to establish program, including Core Ethical Virtues, targets, and how they were chosen.
• Use perception scale to determine student/staff agreements and disagreements about major ethical principles
• Conduct student interviews.
• Collect unobtrusive/non-reactive data on significance of character education program.
• Review staff/student activities, solutions, and strategies for strengthening character in the classroom.

• Student perception scale -- Seven point semantic differential.
• Unobtrusive/non reactive measures as specified by school leadership team including athletics.
• State Crime/violence report.
• Conflict Resolution Strategies -- ways that people solve conflict.
• Student Sexual Harassment Policy.
• School Code of Ethics.
• Character education results.
• School Climate Survey
• Student Character Reference

Assess school governance and committee structure used for sustaining efforts in character/ethic/civic education.

Review and summarize exit level performance standards and expectations for character education.

Each participating school will receive the following:

• Comprehensive evaluation report including all items on the Character Education
• Evaluation checklist.
• Hundreds of activities designed for K-12 students for promoting ethics education, along with copyright privileges to reproduce as needed.
• Set of "Parent Posters" to support parents in their efforts to strengthen character at home.

• Responsibility Management (K-6)
• Respect -- A Process for Change (K-6)
• Strengthening Character the Classroom (K-12)
• Discipline and The Difficult Child (K-3)
• Teen Respect Seminar (Ages 13-19)

Best in Ethics Education -- monthly On Line newsletter with copyright permission to reproduce.

Character Classics -- Classical music series that promotes character.

Complete Parent Participation Program ( 94 Objectives Activities and strategies for parent involvement)