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How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, Second Edition
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“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.
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.
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.
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Building School Culture™ Workshop
Our day long, highly interactive workshop helps teachers, staff and administrators build awareness about ehy ethics matters, come together around their core ethical values and their common purpose in schools, and consider ways to forward ethics across their school culture.
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Community Forum
A positive community connection is essential to improving school climate. A key starting point is identifying the shared ethical values that all adults can agree to model and to uphold. Often conducted during and afternoon or evening session, this forum engages community members and educators around the importance of ethics education and leads participants to a set of values that everyone can endorse and use to guide future planning.
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Ethical Fitness® Seminar
Our four-hour or full-day Ethical Fitness® Seminar helps provide educators with the tools and confidence required to resolve tough, values-based dilemmas. Hundreds of people connected to schools—including students, teachers, adjunct personnel, and administrators—are using the Institute's dynamic decision-making model to improve the way they live their lives and do their work.
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Tone-at-the-Top Seminar
Our four-hour highly interactive Tone-at-the-Top Seminar establishes processes for administrative leadership to explore the tough ethical dilemmas inherent in running schools, and to consider approaches to building cultures where trust and self-regulation are the norm.
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