Teachers at Hurlock Elementary are working to incorporate character education into the school's curriculum. Art teacher Nancy Hebb, one of five Hurlock teachers who attended a CC! seminar in St. Michaels, has given her students the task of representing six pillar values in their artwork. She assigns a pillar value to each of the five grades, and the sixth to the school's TAG (talented and gifted) group. All the students learn to reflect on the importance of these values in their lives, and the best work becomes part of a CC! bulletin board at the Board of Education office in Cambridge.

Meanwhile, seniors in the community are working to ensure that they reinforce the school's message. Volunteers from Talbot County, where they have impacted students in about 80 classrooms over two years, recently shared advice with future volunteers at the Hurlock MAC Center. Like those in Talbot County, seniors in Hurlock will visit one or two classes a week and spend fifteen minutes delivering a message of character to the kids, both using CC! materials and drawing from their own experiences. Thanks to these volunteers, students will know that the whole community has a stake in their character development.