Goal 2 of Vestavia Hills City Schools’ strategic plan pushes the school system to “embrace our leadership role in developing common understandings and shared community support for confronting the problems and challenges that impact the system, youth, and families.” Much of this goal is focused on work related to development of core values and character education in schools. In this episode, Brooke and Whit talk with Dr. Antonio Cooper, VHCS Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and Blair Inabinet, principal of Vestavia Hills Elementary Liberty Park, about how core values are making a real-world impact on student learning and development.