Greetings! I’m Charles Michael, a Character Education Specialist, Bullying Prevention Specialist, After-School Specialist and the founder of TEAM Character, LLC.
I provide Character-Based and Anti-Bullying programs, speeches, and presentations for schools and youth organizations, as well as strategies and trainings for teachers, school staff, youth workers, and community organizations in behavior and classroom/after-school management, bullying prevention and intervention, and building youth’s self-esteem, character and social emotional learning skills.
As a former After-School Program Specialist for over 10 years at a middle school in the Fairfax County Public School System, as well as being a short/long term substitute teacher in FCPS, I realized there were numerous educators, administrators, support staff, and community organizations who wanted effective strategies and interventions for building Self-Esteem, Character, and Social Emotional Learning skills as well as dealing with classroom/after-school discipline and bullying behavior.
I’ve created and conducted school-based and out-of-school time professional development trainings to equip school staff and youth organizations with research-based strategies, methods and tools to succeed in creating a positive school/after-school culture, and managing their classrooms/after-school programs and the student behaviors they face throughout the day.
Building Positive, Productive Individuals by increasing Self-Esteem, Character, and SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
“A personas judgment of himself influences the kinds of friends he chooses, how he gets along with others, the kind of person he marries, and how productive he will be. It affects his creativity, integrity, stability, and even whether he will be a leader or a follower. His feelings of self-with form the core of his personality and determine the use he makes of his aptitudes and abilities. His attitude toward himself has a direct bearing on how he lives all parts of his life. In fact, self-esteem is the main thing that slates every child for success or failure as a human being”
“The present and future well-being of our society requires an involved, caring citizenry with good moral character. People do not automatically develop moral character; therefore, conscientious efforts must be made to help young people develop the values and abilities necessary for moral decision making and conduct”
“Social and emotional learning and character education are complementary approaches to strengthening a person’s ability to understand, manage, and express the social and emotional aspects of life and to organize action in a positive goal-directed manner”
T.E.A.M. Character can work with your PTA/PTO or school administration to set up all of the aspects of the programs, inclusion logistics, registration, and payment.
Our T.E.A.M. Character before and Afterschool Programs use sports and the arts to build youths Self- Esteem, Character and Social Emotional Learning skills. We teach “the fundamentals” in caring environments where participants can feel encouraged, involved, valued, challenged, and safe.
We’re currently looking for coaches with previous experience to instruct youth at camps, area clinics, and before/after school sports programs.
We are also seeking interns: internships with T.E.A.M. Character provide valuable on the job experience and familiarization with sports training, marketing essentials, character education and social emotional learning skills. If you are highly motivated and enthusiastic about exploring opportunities with T.E.A.M. Character, please contact us today.
