Character education is one way to help students develop the efficacy they will need to further the democratic ideals of our society by becoming caring and ethical adults. Through service-learning, schools across the nation are creating approaches to character development that are formal, intentional, purposeful, and systematic. This effective practice shares ways to integrate service-learning and character education, and is excerpted from the publication, Service Learning and Character Education: Walking the Talk, (2000) by Swick et al., published by the South Carolina Department of Education, in partnership with the National Dropout Prevention Center, with funding by the Corporation for National and Community Service.