Education
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Ed. D. |
North Carolina State University, January, 1991. |
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Curriculum and Instruction/Middle Grades Education. |
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Social and Moral Reasoning. |
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Dissertation: |
The Teaching of Ethics as a Means to Facilitate Moral Development in Gifted Adolescents. |
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M.A. |
Appalachian State University, August, 1980. |
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Gifted Education. |
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Minor: |
Philosophy |
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B.A. |
Appalachian State University, May, 1976. |
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Philosophy/Religion. |
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Psychology. |
Professional Work Experience
Director (June 1995 - present). Character Development Group, Chapel Hill and Greensboro, NC.
There are two components of the Character Development Group. Character Development Consulting works with school districts, community groups, university, state and regional organizations in providing training and evaluation of character education efforts. Character Development Publishing has published 40 books focusing on character education. I have worked in 40 states and Canada doing keynotes, breakout sessions, day-long trainings, panel discussions, community organization, parent and school board meetings. Previous to my work with the Character Development Group, I taught grades K-12 as well as being a site based and central office administrator. Before working as a teacher, many years ago, I was a radio announcer and music director at a campus radio station as well as being a six foot chicken mascot for a large FM station! Cluck on the dial!!!!!
Significant Keynotes, Addresses and Trainings
February 2007. Building a Character Based School. Day-long presentation to all elementary and middle school principals in the state of North Dakota. Minot, North Dakota.
January 2007. Restoring School Civility: An Administrative Perspective. Worked with principals in St. Louis City Schools as well as 30 principals from the metropolitan St. Louis area. University of Missouri-St. Louis.
November 2006. Restoring School Civility DVD. West Palm Beach School System. The 90 minute DVD is now available on Blackboard for all West Palm Beach Teachers. Also included is a 40 page training manual.
November 2006. Three Keynote Addresses over a day. The Role of Adults in Fostering Social and Moral Development in Children. covering entire certified and classified staff of Avon-Maitland School District. Ontario, Canada.
October 2006. Keynote Research Informing Practice and Practice Informing Research. Character Education Partnership Conference. Kick-off . Panel discussion on the West Virginia Assessment Model for character education. Washington, DC.
October 2006. Keynote: Restoring School Civility. Finding Common Ground – Character Development in Ontario Schools: A Provincial Symposium hosted by The Ontario Ministry of Education. Toronto, Canada.
October 2006. Developing Character in Students. Two day presentation. Orleans-Niagara BOCES. Medina, NY.
September 2006. Four day follow-up working with experimental schools as part of West Virginia Federal Character Education Grant.
September 2006. Completed my final training days of four year consulting contract with Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools. Charlotte, NC
June 2006. Developing Character in Students – Keynote and breakouts. Texas Principal’s Conference. Austin, TX.
June 2006. Doing What’s Right: A Week-long Training for Hillsborough County Schools. Trained 25 school building leadership teams. This is the fourth year of the training. Tampa, FL.
April 2006. Restoring School Civility: A Tool to Address Bullying – Keynote. Inaugural Florida Bullying Conference. Orlando, FL.
March 2006. Ten Years Working to Help Children Know, Love and Do the Good: One Community’s Effort. Keynote and program evaluation. Canandaigua, NY.
March 2006. Building the Civil School. Day-long training for principals at University of Missouri – St. Louis as part of their extensive training in leading and building a character building school. St. Louis, MO.
March 2006. Building Strength Community Wide in Character Development – Keynote and two breakout sessions. Albany, NY.
March 2006. In the Middle School – The Character Development Imperative – Keynote. Abington VA.
February 2006. Developing Character in Students – Pre-conference. Wisconsin’s State Counselor’s Conference. I also did three breakout sessions: Restoring School Civility, Smart and Good High Schools and Character Development: A Group Sharing of Strategies.
January 2006 – May 2006. Evaluating and Building Character Education – Sixteen Schools’ Efforts. I spent 30 days training and evaluating schools in Annapolis, MD. as they work to create schools of social, moral and intellectual competence.
January 2006. Developing Character in Students: Improving Your Efforts – A day long training. Beaver Creek School District. Dayton, OH.
January 2006. Developing Character in Students: An Introduction – Day-long training. West Palm Beach Schools. West Palm, FL.
January 2006. Developing Character in Students: Celebrating Success and Growing Into the Future – Keynote and key staff training over two days. Minot, ND.
November 2005. Character Development: An Introduction. Administrative staff of Anne Arundel Public Schools. Annapolis, MD.
November 2005. Visited schools for four days in West Palm Beach Schools to talk about character development in the school and community. West Palm Beach, FL.
October 2005. Restoring School Civility. Two day-long trainings for two New Jersey School Districts.
October 2005. Restoring School Civility – Keynote. First National Canadian Character Education Conference. Huntsville, ON.
October 2005. Developing Character in Students. Ohio Partners in Education Conference. Columbus, OH.
October 2005. One half-day pre-conference with Dr. Hal Urban, Classroom Strategies and School Organization for Promoting Moral Development. Breakout session on Restoring School Civility. Character Education Partnership Conference. Atlanta, GA.
September 2005- December 2005. Completed 12 days of the final year of Charlotte’s Character Grant. I worked with schools and with community members. Charlotte, NC.
September 2005. Worked with three rural school districts for two days to help them formulate their plans for school and community based character development initiatives. Charleston, WV.
September 2005. Worked with Safe and Drug Free School Division of West Palm County Schools to formulate a plan of developing schools of character. West Palm, FL.
September 2005. Worked with administrators and lead teachers in Jefferson City Schools on steps to enhance their character developing efforts. I also did a community talk on the importance of character development within the community. Jefferson, WI.
September 2005. Day-long Introduction to Character Education training for Pinellas County School’s secondary teachers. St. Petersburg, FL.
August 2005. Why Character Matters – Keynote to over 5000. Klein Independent School District. Klein, TX.
August 2005. Why Character Matters – Keynote to teaching staff of Rabun County Schools. Clayton, GA.
August 2005. Trainings on creating a moral climate for students and teachers in Whiteville, NC and Hyde County, NC.
August 2005. Day-long follow-up to assess the progress schools in North Bay, Ontario are making in their character building efforts. North Bay, ON.
References and contacts available upon request
Additional keynotes, talks and trainings are available upon request.
Publications - Books
Vincent, P.F, Wangaard, D., & Weimer, P. (2005). Restoring school civility.Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing.
Vincent, P.F. (2003).Rules and procedures: the first step in school civility (2nd ed.). Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing.
Abourjilie, C., Frye, M., Lee, A., LeGette, H., Mitchell, M., Turner, G., & Vincent, P. (2002). Character education: informational handbook and guide. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Vincent, P. F. Reed, N. & Register, J. (2000). The Chattanooga story: A school district and community's efforts towards moral renewal. Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing.
Vincent, P.F. (1999). Developing character in students (2nd ed.). Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing.
Vincent, P.F. (1999). Promising practices in character education: volume 2. Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing.
Vincent, P.F.(1998). Rules and procedures: the first step in school civility. Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing.
Vincent, P.F. (1996). Promising practices in character education. Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing.
Vincent, P.F. (1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004). Developing character in students: a workbook. Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishing. (Presently in 5th edition).
Vincent, P.F. (1994). Developing character in students: a primer. Chapel Hill, NC: New View Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989-1990). Thirteen books (K - 8 with 3 Teacher Guides) in the "Philosophy for Young Thinkers Series." The books reflect a sequential developmental approach in teaching for thinking. New York. Trillium Press and (1995) in Australia. Hawker Brownlow Educational Press. All books are still in publication.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). About me: grade k. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). Living together: grade 1. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). My expanding world: grade 2. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). But I’m different: grade 3.Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). The human community: grade 4. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). The great experiment: grade 5. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). The global village: grade 6. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1990). Human configurations: middle grades 1. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1990). Beat him when he sneezes: middle: grade 2. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1990). Wrong think/non-think: middle grade 3.Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). Teacher guide: grade K-2. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1989). Teacher guide: grade 3-6. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1990). Teacher guide: middle grades. Monroe, NY: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P. & Vincent, P. F. (1987). Philosophy for young thinkers (2nd ed). New York: Trillium Press.
Vincent, P. F., & Kemnitz, T. (1986). Computer ethics. New York: Trillium Press.
Hester, J. P., Vincent, P. F., Stahl, R. & Stahl, R. (1983). Philosophy for young thinkers. New York: Trillium Press.
Forthcoming Publishing Project
Corrigan, M., Grove, D., and Vincent, P. F. A large textbook company solicited a proposal for a college textbook on character education. We have completed three chapters of the book and are awaiting final approval. (expected publication - 2008)
Book Chapters and Contributions
Vincent, P. F., Poovey, R., & Moats, L. (1992). Middle tech program. In J. Arnold and W. R. Parker (Eds),At-risk Programs that Work In North Carolina Middle Level Schools (pp. 33 – 36). Raleigh, NC: North Carolina League of Middle Level Schools.
Vincent, P. F. (1991). Development of a school based seminar program: parent child monthly literature program. In Masterworks: Promising Practices in Humanities Education. Washington, DC: Council for Basic Education.
Vincent, P. F. (1987). Logic and you. In A. Reiman & A Kamiya (Eds.), Curriculum activities for gifted and motivated elementary students. New York: Parker Publishing Co.
Proceedings, Journals and Newsletters
Vincent, P.F. ( 2003-2005). Series of 16 essays (1200-2500 words) addressing issues and concerns in character education for educators and parents. Chattanooga, TN: Charactered.Net (Over 1000 schools received Charactered.Net).
Berkowitz, M W., Vincent, P. F. & McKay, L. (2001). The two faces of community in character education. Public Relations Journal, 22, 4-14.
Vincent, P.F. (2000). The attributes of a character education program., Georgia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Winter, 8-11.
Vincent, P.F. (1999). Call to character education. Chattanooga, TN. The Federalist (On-line journal with 75,000 subscribers)
Vincent, P.F. & Wangaard, D. (1998). How to plan and assess a comprehensive program: avoiding character light. ASCD. Middle Matters, 6(2).
Vincent, P.F. (1997). Rules, Procedures, and the Development of Character. Character, 6, No. 1, 3-4.
Vincent, P.F., Morrison, D., Whisant, M., & Jones, T. (1993). Catawba County middle an educational experience and opportunity. Journal of the North Carolina League of Middle Schools.
Hester, J. P., & Vincent P. F. (1992). Privilege or right? Our Gifted Children,66 20 - 23.
Hester, J. P., & Vincent P. F. (1989). Philosophy for young thinkers. North Carolina Gifted Newsletter.
Vincent, P. F. (1984). A question of computer ethics. in Ralph Van Dusserdorp (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third Annual Statewide Conference of Alaska Association for Computers in Education. (pp. 146 - 155). Anchorage, AK: Alaska Association for Computers in Education.
Hester, J. P., & Vincent, P. F. (1981). Teaching philosophy to children: a southern exposure. Thinking - The Journal of Philosophy for Children, 3(2), 39 - 43.