Values in Action: GO HDR!
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Session Description
Inspired by the 2010 Ethical Literacy Conference featured presentation, “Embedding Social Responsibility into School Culture,” this interactive session illustrated how students can be empowered to contribute and take responsibility for the culture of their school. Chris Cooper and Jill Reilly explored ways to promote student ownership and social responsibility by using a student-centered approach to positive behavior intervention, called GO HDR! (Giving back, Ownership, Honest, Dependable, Respectful). They also discussed ways of increasing awareness of GO HDR across the schools, including building values rubrics for various school settings, using the Honor Council as a driving force, and advancing GO HDR using student led activities.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Gaining concrete steps for building awareness of values-based ethics programs
- Understanding challenges and successes
- Looking at real-world scenarios through the lens of GO HDR and receive tangible samples of scenarios and dilemmas to take back to your school.
Highlights
- Acknowledging good ethical decisions and behaviors
- Rubrics for core values under different settings
Tips
- Deliberately acknowledge the practice of ethics at your school – what’s already being done?
- “Package” core values creatively and age-appropriately
- Try student created videos on ethics—scenarios works best, instead of professional, teacher-directed productions
- Use creative flyers and posters to reach a variety of students of different ages
- Let the “idea” look as it was developed by students, but provide adult guidance
- Acknowledge and celebrate that students can make a difference
- Trust that students are the best influence to change the entire school
Tools
- Working with students to make the initiative student-driven
- “Do you know plagiarism?” prompt
- Tie Ethical Literacy® into Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and Bully Intervention
- Question: What inspires us to make the right decision?
Replicable Practices
- Rubrics
- Student videos
- with staff – character words into an acronym for our school
- Get older elementary students to develop something for lower school
- Importance of student buy-in and development
Click here to view the full list of replicable practices from the conference.
Artifacts
PowerPoint
Handouts
- GO HDR! Advisory Scenario Rubric
- Happy Slips
- Exhibition of Ethical Literacy Reasoning Documents
- Ethical Literacy Tips for Adults
- Successes in Ethical Literacy
Themocracy
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