The mission of the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, Inc. is to strengthen the character development and literacy skills of students. The program empowers children to discover, then recognize, the role of courage in the lives of the characters they read about, in the lives of those around them, and in their own lives – past, present and future.

The organization’s primary goals are to:

• Engage and inspire students, particularly urban children, to make meaningful connections with literature;
• Improve the reading, writing and critical thinking skills of students;
• Inspire participants to celebrate acts of moral courage in their own lives and in the lives of others in their communities;
• Train and support teachers in their use of the curriculum to improve their own instruction, while meeting state mandated requirements;
• Create opportunites for interactive and one-on-one dialogue between students and teachers, students and family members, and students and their peers; and
• Engage teachers in a better understanding of their students and their students’ lives.