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The PACE Grant

PACE is a public/private partnership committed to providing quality character education opportunities, which assist Pennsylvania children to become productive, responsible citizens. PACE developed, researched, evaluated, and disseminated character education programming that impacts on crucial issues facing our youth, schools, and communities today. As part of this process, school districts in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Beaver County received funds to design and implement character education curricula tailored to meet local student, parent, school, and community needs.

Key elements of the PACE initiative include:

• Extensive character education teacher training and technical assistance through the PACE infrastructure;
• Service learning infusion as a dynamic reinforcement of character education and as a critical means of uniting school and community
• Strong youth leadership roles in all aspects of character education programming and planning; and
• Comprehensive research and evaluation to determine PACE project impacts on students, schools, and communities.

Through the implementation of diverse character education curricula, tailored to meet individual school needs, a total of 12,200 students and 383 teachers have been impacted by the PACE project.