Focus Groups

Community College focus group sessions are a way to get in touch with a variety of stakeholders that contribute to campus culture. We develop a slate of customized questions to determine the "landscape of ethics" at the college. These questions draw out attitudes and perceptions about ethics, and begin to explore possible needs.

Leadership Training: Tone-at-the-Top Seminar

In order to build buy in campus wide, it's important for top leadership to demonstrate commitment to the school culture and to learn ways to integrate ethics into their decision making and communication with all stakeholders. Tone-at-the-Top is a four-hour, highly interactive workshop to help top leadership build skills in deliberatelyupholding the ethical values of their college mission, and in thinking through and effectively communicating about the tough ethical challenges they face daily.

Building School Culture™ Workshop

These highly interactive four-hour or full-day workshops provide hands on opportunities for college staff and faculty to come together around the need for ethics, the core ethical values they share, and the specific ways they can contribute to a culture of integrity at the college. These workshops also provide time to introduce the long term design and intent of Ethical Literacy®, and providean opportunity to begin surfacing those faculty and/or staff who have a passion and skills to carry forward a long term process for building your campus culture of integrity.

Decision Skills for Colleges Training

This two day course for a maximum of ten college instructors provides specific opportunities for exploring and learning to use the Institute for Global Ethics® Decision Skills for Colleges curriculum. Participating instructors will experience and practice activities from all ten sections of the curriculum, while discussing ways to effectively adapt these tools for the content areas they teach.

Ethical Literacy® Approach

• The Ethical Literacy® Readiness Process: This ground-laying work is generally scheduled to unfold over a two month period in advance of Ethical Literacy® training.
  
  Whole picture discussion: We dialogue with school leadership to determine how the Ethical Literacy® initiative will dovetail with other activities or initiatives planned for the school during the same time period.
  
  Team selection: We provide criteria and recommendations for people best suited for this work. We dialogue with school leadership to determine who should be on the Ethical Literacy® team, in light of the strategic purpose of the intiative and our criteria.
  
  Culture assessment: We provide an electronic survey to be administered to the broad school community in advance of training. We process results of the survey and integrate these into the action planning that takes place during Ethical Literacy® Training.
• Ethical Literacy® Training: This two day, face-to-face training can take place on or off site.
  
  Conceptual: Ethical Fitness® and research from the Schools of Integrity project.
  
  Skill building: Training to equip consituents with ethical decision making skills and to help them consider their school culture through the lens of ethics.
  
  Action planning: Activities to determine which constituents to target and when, to conclude a specific plan of action for the first year of implementation.
  
• Ethical Literacy® Coaching and other Follow-on Care: Our follow-on care for the Ethical Literacy® team takes place over the remaining three year contract.
  
  Coaching sessions: Three sessions per school year, scheduled in advance of the year.
  
  Benchmarking: Once per school year, teams repeat the School Culture Assessment with the whole school population. We write up a report that analyzes the data and makes recommendations to build/adjust plans accordingly.
  
  Activities: We commit to developing one activity/participating school each school year.
  
  Annual conference: Team members can attend our annual conference (location changes each year) where participating schools share ideas and best practices. Two conference registrations are included in the Ethical Literacy® contract.