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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.
Services for Community Colleges
Community college students are about to enter the 21st century work and career world; the Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) provides leadership, faculty, and staff with highly effective and unifying professional development opportunities aimed at equipping college students with the soft skills needed for 21st century work environments. Socratic, activity-based approaches help community colleges strengthen the balance between academics and ethics, focusing on communication skills, problem solving, thinking skills, and appreciation for shared ethical expectations at school and at work. Through creative and customized activity, IGE helps put in place the conditions that will promote ethical behavior, and sustain a culture of integrity campus-wide.
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Services for K-12 Schools
IGE wants to make sure our students are learning to appreciate the broadest purpose of education—to create a just and ethical society. IGE provides highly interactive and effective in service opportunities and direct, developmentally appropriate experiences for students, aimed at making sure schools balance attention to academic rigor with attention to the ethical development of young people. We can't afford to choose one over the other, and IGE's Schools of Integrity research demonstrates we can do both. IGE provides a series of services to help leadership, faculty, staff, and students discover and sustain a shared vision of ethical behavior, and a school-wide culture of integrity.
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Services for School Districts
Senior leadership in our nation's school districts appreciate the need for setting the tone and walking the talk they expect of everyone in the system. IGE has successfully implemented andcustomized system-wide proccesses for getting ethics language and skill-building in place at the Central Office, before one more expectation is directed to school sites. This approach provides useful conceptual frameworks that help raise the bar on ethics in every district department, while bringing people together around the shared, inspiring purpose of a better work environment and, ultimately, better learning environments for our students.
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Services for Education Associations
Education assocaitions play a powerful role in shaping educational priorities for the 21st century, and we appreciate the opportunity to help their constituents learn to integrate and balance ethics with academic expectations in schools. IGE provides services that equip every participant with skill building "takeaways" they can apply immediately in schools, and can continue to build and refine. Our aim is to help associations promote ethics alongside academics as a relevant, meaningful and essential element of schools and school systems.
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