Please explore the Ethical Literacy® learning community to learn more about our approach to building school cultures of integrity.
Note: Only participating schools are able to access the shared Web area as well as their school's Web page.

Participating Schools

When you join us, you will be interacting with a worldwide community of schools. Our most important job is to keep you connected and inspired by the collective work of the Ethical Literacy® community. Our interactive Web site, coaching sessions and frequent electronic communication will provide you with new activities and new results from the Institute for Global Ethics®’ (IGE’s) continuing research with major national and international education organizations. We will provide you with ongoing updates on progress and innovation from other participating schools. Within the Ethical Literacy® community each school team determines its best starting points and plans to forward ethics in consultation with Ethical Literacy® coaches from IGE.

Our coaches work with your school-based team for at least three years, providing:

  • Support in developing realistic outcomes based on each school’s unique needs and environment
  • Consultation on action plans to achieve outcomes
  • Training in activities that will advance the action plans
  • Tools for measuring progress after activities are implemented
  • Recommendations for next steps based on measurement tools
  • Report to keep teams and school leadership informed about progress
  • Opportunities for teams to share results and learn from other participating teams in the Ethical Literacy® Community of educators

 

Listen to Ethical Literacy® Coach Don Proffit be interviewed by Cheryl Esposito on The Leadership of Inclusion (4/25/2008)

"Cheryl welcomes Don Proffit, an ethical literacy coach with the Institute for Global Ethics and President of Proffit Projects, LLC. A conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, Don Proffit was assigned to alternative service in Alaska. That experience included an extended stay in the remote Inuit village of Point Hope, 150 miles above the Arctic Circle. In this isolated setting, his worldview began to take shape as he experienced the isolation of the outsider and witnessed the powerful role the arts and ethics can play in defining inclusive communities. The teachings from these early experiences provided insights that he brought to the New Jersey school system in order to create a caring, inclusive, safe school community for a student body from diverse backgrounds." --from www.cherylesposito.com

2008 Ethical Literacy® Conference

June 19-20, 2008
Breakwater Marketplace
Rockland, Maine, U.S.A.
$175

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Sessions for Current Ethical Literacy® Schools

  • Enhancing Ethical Literacy®

Sessions for New Schools

  • Introduction to Ethical Fitness®
  • Introduction to Moral Courage™
  • Learning Ethical Literacy® from the Community

Sessions for All Schools

  • The Ethical Literacy® Follow-on Services Menu
  • Ethical Fitness® toward Conflict Resolution
  • Applying Organizational Systems for Ethical Literacy®
  • Snapshots of Ethical Literacy® Schools
  • Ethics and Imagination: The creative connection
  • Gauging your School’s Culture
  • The Lawrence High Experience
  • The Role of Leadership in Ethical Literacy®
  • The Schools of Integrity Project
  • Shaping our Ethical Literacy® Future
  • The Student Perspective