#1 Pervasive Attention to Ethics and Values

#2 Critical Thinking Skills Driving and Connecting

#3 Relationships Fuel Learning and Ethical Development

#4 Cultures of Trust Encourage Ongoing, Honest Feedback

• As a starting point, plan and implement a workshop on ethics and generate discussion on core values
• Use ethics as the basis for strengthening communication: teacher to student; teacher to teacher; administration to teacher; and administration
• Include a more positive productive ethical discussion during introductory courses or orientation processes by sharing ideas with instructors/coordinator
• Work to highlight the areas of the curriculum where ethical literacy is already integrated
• Ensure language is consistent, while strengthening the transition of core values into the curriculum
• Use Ethics and ethical dilemmas to enhance curriculum
• Continue to create awareness of dilemmas across all areas of the curriculum through discussion of real life situations
• Make course content consistent for the same courses taught by different teachers
• Express ethics interpretation through art – music – dance
• Challenge teachers to find one place in their curriculum to include an Ethical Literacy activity

#5 Trustees as Keepers of the Moral Compass

#6 Tone at the Top—The School Head as Exemplar

• Construct/develop a universal definition for leadership in collaboration with leadership
• Get administration to participate in activities. Get to know them as people.
• Work on developing the ethical decision making skills of current leadership
• Increase communication and Ethical Literacy reporting as part of scheduled meetings
• Promote the attributes of good leadership through modeling:
  • demonstrate good moral values and encourage those around to follow this
  • encourage independent thinking
  • be the “pusher”, needed to get things done and gain support
  • be involved in every stage of the process

#7 Tolerance for Ambiguity: “Doubt” is Not a Four-Letter Word

#8 Professional Development from the Ranks

• Build buy-in by “setting the bar” for classroom accomplishments low at first
• Express empathy by beginning with simple one step tasks that do not demand a lot of  colleagues
• Involve as many colleagues as possible to develop:
  • An acronym for your school comprised of shared ethical values
  • A scope and sequence approach to mapping ethics in the curriculum, use tools like prompts and ethical literacy outcomes to frame discussions

• Collaborate across content areas and grade levels to allow permeation school-wide
• Use departmental and full faculty meetings, as well as orientation programs to providing ethics training to build buy-in
• Inform rather than expecting cross-curricular approaches for infusing ethics – provide examples rather than demands
• Encourage independence and authenticity by developing confidence in the language of ethics to curb the promotion of a lesson-plan-based approach
• Make colleagues believe the idea is theirs and genuine
• Team up with Ethical Literacy® Schools and neighboring schools to expand ideas
• Demand ongoing skill development for team members
• Reassess how teachers and students interact in a school environment once a focus on values and ethics is established – do teachers uphold core values in their interactions?
• Let students lead. Allow students to facilitate a workshop or focused discussion with faculty.

#9 Authentic Student Input

#10 Growth, Not Punishment

• Encourage students to let their voices be heard
• Keep initiatives student-centered
• Gather statistics on whether students feel safe on campus
• Conduct a School Culture Assessment
• Develop a student leadership team to help all of the students involved
• Utilize groups of student leaders like student council to initiate ethical awareness activities among student body
• Connect students with other students involved at other Ethical Literacy® schools
• Use places like chapel talks or all school-assemblies to allow students a forum to promote Ethical Literacy®
• Empower students to:
  • Establish  core shared ethical values
  • Generate a behavior plan or norms of operation across the school
  • Create their brand
  • Roll-out projects to promote ethics school-wide

• Include code of ethics statement in participation contracts

• Bring ethics to life by doing exciting stuff
• Infuse the idea of “What does a WARRIOR look like?” or what do our values look like in practice
• Teach paradigms by demonstrating role-playing, and follow-up with student discussion of solutions and rationale.
• Acknowledge there is a right-versus-right dilemma and know that it is necessary to examine a problem from more than one angle
• Practice Right-versus-Right skills through dialogue
• Engage faculty in dilemma discussions
• Look for examples of Moral Courage

• Encourage students to step out of their bubbles!
• Ask students to generate scenarios for role-play
• Build on students’ creativeness to help them create awesome projects