The mission of the Education Department is to prepare teachers who communicate moral character to build learning communities. Effective teachers have self-knowledge of their own character. Further, effective teachers can differentiate between their own values and the normative conventions, or morals, of the community they are charged to educate. Graduates who understand moral character will effectively communicate conventions of curriculum content, professional pedagogy, and schooling. In this way, our majors demonstrate moral dimensions of work in schools as their basis for practicing the social science of education.