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NEWS | 07.15.09

Education Week commentary promotes Institute’s “Schools of Integrity” research

“We know what schools of integrity look like. We know how to build them. It's time for school leaders to get out in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.” That’s the conclusion of coauthors Patrick Bassett, Paul Houston, and Rushworth Kidder in “Building Character in Crisis,” published in the July 15, 2009 edition of Education Week.

NEWS | 10.05.09

Principal Leadership article promotes Institute’s “Schools of Integrity” research

The Institute for Global Ethics spoke with six secondary school leaders to learn how ethics and values contribute to leadership effectiveness. Those leaders offered five key recommendations.

NEWS | 02.02.10

Fourth Annual Ethical Literacy® Conference Announced

The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) announced today that the Fourth Annual Ethical Literacy® Conference (June 23 – 25, 2010) is to be hosted by the St. George’s Independent School (SGIS) at its Collierville, Tennessee campus.

NEWS | 04.08.10

Building School Culture™ Workshop

The Institute for Global Ethics is holding a trainer workshop for teachers next week in their Rockland facility. Teachers from schools as far apart as Maine and Georgia will attend this three day event.

NEWS | 10.08.10

Fifth Annual Ethical Literacy® Conference Location Announced

The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) announced today that the Fifth Annual Ethical Literacy® Conference (June 22- 24, 2011) is to be hosted by Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska.

NEWS | 03.28.11

Institute for Global Ethics Announces New Location

We have moved to Rockport, Maine!

NEWS | 11.29.11

Teachers and Education Leaders Attending National Conference Will Learn How To Integrate Academics and Ethical Development of Students

Paula Mirk to present at annual Learning Forward Conference on how to build cultures of integrity using Ethical Literacy® Learning Community resources

NEWS | 01.11.12

Ethical Literacy® Training Made More Affordable and Accessible for Schools and Community Colleges through Packard Grant

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation awards Institute for Global Ethics $135,000 to deliver ethics training electronically, reducing costs and fees

NEWS | 03.05.12

Don Proffit Coaches Schools on How To Establish ‘Cultures of Integrity’ Using Cognitive Tools and Processes from Institute for Global Ethics

Educators benefit from Ethical Literacy® coach’s background as high school principal and performing arts teacher

NEWS | 04.23.12

NEWS | 05.14.12

Rick Pilarski Brings Managerial Ethics Experience to Role as Training Instructor for Institute for Global Ethics

Management consultant, college instructor and former CEO adds unique perspective on organizational behavior to IGE ethics training

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Building Decision Skills (BDS) - 4th Edition

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"Building Decision Skills, combined with service learning, was found to have potentially positive effects on students' knowledge, attitudes, and values."

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BDS provides a hands-on, interactive classroom model for teaching ethics in educational public and independent school grade 6-12 classrooms. Each curriculum guides teachers and students through a practical and conceptual process for making ethical decisions and defining shared values.

The Program

  • Targets character education
    • Awareness of others
    • Discovery of shared values
    • Practice in tough decision making
  • Strengthens critical thinking
    • Analysis of ethical dilemmas
    • Extension and application to real life
    • Conjecture about the future
  • Builds leadership skills
    • Collaboration
    • Group problem solving
    • Communication
    • Independent thinking
  • "Levels the playing field"
    • Everybody is faced with ethical issues in their own lives. Children with limited background knowledge in specific class subjects can suddenly participate on an equal footing when the topic is personal ethics

You will find a teacher's guide, ten lesson plans including readings, overheads, and handouts; numerous examples of ethical dilemmas appropriate to middle-school and high-school settings; assessment tools; and listings of additional resources for learning about the ethical decision making process and character education.

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