Twelve high school students at Athlos Leadership Academy in Brownsville, TX were honored at an end of the school year character award ceremony because they exemplify Performance Character traits. Each award recipient was chosen based on their excellence in one of the 12 Performance Character traits that are incorporated into the Athlos curriculum.

For most parents, teaching their children the "social graces" is an old school norm, a part of everyday parenting. "Social graces" is an old fashioned word. It was eventually replaced with the term "people skills" which has since been reinvented as social intelligence.

In education, a question is often asked, “What makes a great teacher?” Of course, the term “great” is subjective but we can all name that one person (or if you are lucky the several) that reached our definition of great. For many of us, while sitting in a less than stimulating classroom, what we heard from our teachers was very similar to what Charlie Brown heard!