CViL - Cultivating Virtues for Leadership

CViL℠ is both a framework and a program for school leaders that strengthens leadership characteristics and behaviors to improve their personal well-being and their professional ability to serve and lead successfully.

The CViL Project seeks to help educational leaders and those aspiring to become educational leaders to understand and cultivate the virtue based practices that will help them thrive in what we know are extremely demanding and immensely influential careers.

CViL focuses on cultivating 8 character virtues:

  • NOBLE PURPOSE

  • HUMILITY

  • GRATITUDE

  • COURAGE

  • FORGIVENESS

  • EMPOWERMENT

  • FORESIGHT

  • STEWARDSHIP

CLICK HERE to view videos of educational leaders describing how they incorporate the 8 character virtues into their work.

CViL is made possible through grants from the Kern Family Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation.