Don’t take it for granted . . .

They take you with them.

Wherever you go,

there you are.

Educators’ Code of Ethics

Utah Educator Standards

Role Model Maintain Safe

Learning Environment Comply with District Policies Professional Conduct

Crystal Clear

Utah Educator Standards

Boundaries

Honesty and Integrity

Crystal Clear

Role Model of Civic and Societal Responsibility

SHALL NOT• Solicit encourage or consummate an inappropriate relationship,

written, verbal, or physical with a student or minor

• Make inappropriate contact in any communication – written, verbal, or electronic – with a minor, student, or colleague, regardless of age or location

Role Model of Civic and Societal Responsibility

SHALL NOT• inappropriate relationships

• inappropriate communication

Maintain Appropriate Boundaries

Reasonable Educator

Maintain Appropriate Boundaries

Reasonable Educator Green Light Behaviors — • Make and give humorous and friendly comments • Give compliments that are not overly personal • Offer to assist students • Talk to and treat all students in a consistent manner • Don’t isolate yourself with a student• Do not spend a majority of your time with one student • Touch consistently and only in safe areas • Social networking only for instructional purposes

Maintain Appropriate Boundaries

Reasonable Educator Yellow Light Behaviors • Singling out students for favors• Giving or sending overly personal cards, notes,

emails, texts, or yearbook inscriptions• Teasing that references gender or contains sexual

innuendo• Sending texts/emails to single students—not

groups of students—for any reason• Counseling students about non-school or personal

issues

Maintain Appropriate Boundaries

Reasonable EducatorRed Light Behaviors• Frequently touching students• Making comments about a student's body• Being alone in a locked or closed room or private

vehicle with a student• Talking about a student’s sexuality• Allowing students to sit on your lap• Sending or giving flirtatious texts, emails, notes, other

communications• Tickling, wrestling, poking, patting, punching or

spanking students—even in fun

Honesty and Integrity

Honesty and Integrity

They take you with them . . .