What Character Development looks like in Schools
Building Character Through Global Engagement
The presenters will focus on how Michael Ham fosters character development at their school through various Round Square initiatives. These include student engagement in conferences, postcard exchanges, workshops, and elective subjects—all of which provide meaningful opportunities for students to reflect on values, build resilience, and develop leadership skills with a global perspective.
Agustina Graziani, Dolores Marín, María Caamaño & Sergio Grimozzi (Michael Ham Memorial College)
The Cornerstone of Character in Education
Character is a fundamental dimension of human development, shaping values, decisions, and relationships. Schools play a key role in character formation, as daily community life, leadership opportunities, academic and sporting challenges, service initiatives, artistic expression, and structured reflection create meaningful opportunities to cultivate integrity, resilience, and empathy. By framing schools as laboratories for life, character education transcends knowledge acquisition, enabling students to develop authenticity, responsibility, and a sense of purpose essential for ethical leadership in contemporary society.
Enzo Speranza (Belgrano Day School)
Building Character at SASS from K2 to Y12: Our learning journey
At St. Andrew’s Scots School, we believe that learning is about more than just academics, it’s also about building character through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). In the Early Years, we plant the first seeds of values like kindness, empathy, respect and curiosity. In the Primary Years, students grow strong roots that start by a self-knowledge path which then enables them to connect with others, get along, celebrate our differences and solve conflicts. During the Middle Years, they begin to grow the branches of honesty, perseverance and reliability, By the Senior Years we try to foster a sense of authentic Leadership, to help them to be ready to step into the world with confidence, guided by strong values and a clear sense of purpose. This presentation will show how we build character step by step through each stage of a student’s journey at SASS.
Carolina Ostrowski, Martin Cassels, Romina Porcelli (St Andrew´s Scots School)
