This highly interactive workshop invites educators to explore how who they are, and how they show up each day, shapes student formation just as much as what they teach. Through personal reflection and discussion, participants explore the often-unseen power of everyday classroom practices and reframe faith and character integration as a matter of pedagogical posture rather than added content. Drawing on insights from David I. Smith and research from the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, the session connects the ideas of “caught, taught, and sought” formation to concrete teaching moves that cultivate virtues such as respect, curiosity, humility, and care. 

Through hands-on activities, teachers analyze their own language, routines, and instructional choices to uncover what students are actually learning beneath the surface. They then redesign both everyday classroom moments and content-area lessons using evidence-informed strategies like modeling, ethical questioning, dialogue, and reflection. The workshop emphasizes practice, giving participants opportunities to try, refine, and receive feedback in real time. It concludes with personal reflection and commitment, grounding the work in small, intentional shifts that, over time, shape not only classroom culture but the kind of people students are becoming.