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Educators from across South America convene in Bolivia

to explore the Institute for Global Ethics Ethical Fitness®

Seminar.

A Westside High School (Omaha, NE) student

participating in a Word Wall as part of anti-bullying

week activities.

Students from the Clairbourn School (San Gabriel,

CA) explore key ethics concepts of obedience to the

unenforceable, moral perimeter, ethical dilemmas, and

moral courage.

A member of the Catherine Cook School (Chicago, IL)

Ethical Literacy® Team participates in a World Cafe at our

2009 Ethical Literacy Conference in Chestnut Hill, MA.

An educator from East Ridge Middle School

(Chattanooga, TN) sharing an ethical dilemma with

faculty and students during an Ethical Literacy training.

Westside High School students participate in a non-

credited course for student members of the Westside

Ethical Literacy team.

A Berkeley Hall School (Los Angeles, CA) parent listens to

other parents discuss right-versus-right ethical dilemmas

as part of an Ethics & Parenting Workshop.

IDavid Thompson Secondary School (Vancouver, BC)

principal provides a feature presentation at our 2010

Ethical Literacy Conference in Memphis, TN.

Members of the Crowder College (Neosho, MO) Ethical

Literacy Team explore the Chalk Talk protocol at the 3rd

Annual Ethical Literacy Conference.

A student Ethical Literacy team member from St.

George’s School (Newport, RI) connects with teachers

about why ethics matters at St. George’s.

Educators and students from across South America

convene to build a virtual school for ethics.

A student member of the Westside High School Ethical

Literacy team explores what it means to be a WARRIOR,

as part of a values-in-action activity.

O U R M I S S I O N

To promote ethical behavior in individuals,

and cultures of integrity in institutions and nations,

through research, public discourse, and practical action.

Founded in 1990, the Institute for Global Ethics® (IGE) is an

independent, nonsectarian, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization.F R O N T C O V E R

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Integrating Ethics into Your School Community

Dedicated to Building School Cultures of Integrity.

S C H O O L L E A D E R S H I PS T U D E N T SS TA F F PA R E N T S FAC U LT Y

Introducing The Ethical Literacy® approach—a comprehensive training and development initiative for all levels of your educational organization.

Your students are influenced by everyone in their school day.

T E AC H E R S

OT H E R S T U D E N T SC OAC H E S

L E A D E R S H I P S TA F F

PA R E N T S

T H E C O M M U N I T Y

The Ethical Literacy® approach is a comprehensive framework for building a culture of

integrity in your school and throughout your school system. If you want your students

to become more ethical and you wish to develop a school environment that fosters a

focus on integrity, the Ethical Literacy® approach is for you.

The Institute for Global Ethics is committed to providing your students, teachers,

leadership, and other affiliated groups with tools that support an ethics alignment. We

build learning environments that deliberately support both academic preparation and

ethical development.

Because your students are influenced by everyone in their school day, the Ethical

Literacy approach is designed to help you be sure that everyone is sending the same

message about integrity to your students. We provide e-communications, school

culture assessments, classroom curriculum, online learning sessions, keynotes and

talks, professional development workshops, and school or system-wide culture building

initiatives. All services are intended to build cultures of integrity throughout your entire

school organization.

Online Learning Sessions

IGE is committed to providing affordable ways

to support the professional development of

educators. Our Online Learning Sessions feature

20 one-hour sessions. Sessions are designed

for leadership and for classroom teachers to

collaborate with colleagues worldwide, actively

learning ways to integrate ethics in the class-

room and across their school cultures.

Customized WebinarsProvide one hour online, and/or on-demand

sessions tailored to meet the particular needs of

your school or system constituents. We’ll work

with you to make the ethics education process

relevant and specific to your context.

Ethical Literacy® Bulletin

Delivered weekly by email to subscribers

and Ethical Literacy® Learning Community

members, the Ethical Literacy Bulletin provides

highlights of Ethical Literacy in action, lesson

plans, and tools and resources to support ethics

work in the classroom and broader school

community.

Online Resource Center

Members of the Ethical Literacy Learning

Community have access to a library of

resources1 including lesson plans, curriculum,

culture building activities, our research in

guide and teaching formats, shared materials

from community members, and access to a

directory of hundreds of educators teaching

and practicing ethics in the classroom and

school community.

IGE’s Ethical Literacy® Approach provides a wide range of ways you can integrate ethics into your organization.

Whether you are an individual teacher looking for help with ethics for your classroom, a principal

looking to provide professional development in ethics for your staff or a superintendent who wants

to promote an ethical culture system-wide, the Ethical Literacy® Approach from the Institute for

Global Ethics has the answer for you.

1 There are three levels of membership in the community.

Access to resources is password protected based on

membership level.

2 Access to curriculum is limited to members of the

Ethical Literacy Learning Community.

Culture Assessments

Based on the “Schools of Integrity” findings we

have developed a simple, user-friendly assess-

ment instrument to gain an understanding of

your culture. This instrument is administered

electronically; once all data is collected, the

Institute will provide a short analysis of your

culture based on responses. Student and adult

versions available.

Focus Groups

Sending the signal that “we’re all in this togeth-

er” can be an inspiring and critical first step to

launching a long-term focus on ethics in your

school or school district. Engaging a variety of

constituent groups to explore ethical issues and

attitudes tells members of your community that

their opinions matter and that your ethics work

will be designed with them in mind.

Executive & Leadership Coaching

Leadership is largely defined by effective de-

cision-making. Because of the complexity and

sensitivity of decisions at the top and the pres-

sure to “get it right,” leaders often need help

learning to analyze and resolve ethical dilem-

mas, and building the fluency to communicate

the basis of decisions effectively. One-on-one

coaching is highly effective for this purpose.

The coaching process employs the Institute’s

Ethical Fitness® model to identify the important

aspects of awareness, analysis, and resolution

faced by the individual leader at each stage of

a complex and results-critical decision, and

works with the leader to address them. Coach-

ing helps build fluency in communicating the

ethics behind decisions, to increase trust with

all constituents in a school community.

MEMBER BENEFITS

CONSULTING

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Annually we convene educators worldwide to

share and learn from each other about build-

ing school cultures centered on the broadest

purpose of education: “what kind of people will

lead us in the 21st century?”

Together we will:

Explore ethics and whole-school approach-

es that advance education for all students

Practice ways to build the case for a focus

on ethics at every school

Try out materials/tools to further work in

ethics and school culture building

Examine concrete examples of the

Ethical Literacy® approach directly from

participating schools

Learn first-hand the benefits of Ethical

Literacy® for your school or districtCurriculum2

The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) offers

a variety of downloadable K-College level

curriculum, based on a hands-on, interactive

classroom model for teaching ethics. Each cur-

riculum guides teachers and students through

a practical and conceptual process for making

ethical decisions and defining shared values.

Curriculum titles include:

MEMBERSHIPPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

WORKSHOPS

ETHICAL LITERACY®

CULTURE IMMERSIONADDITIONAL SERVICES

Online Resource Center

Curriculum

Online Learning Series

Customized Webinars

Building School Culture™

Building School Culture™

Train-the-Trainer

Ethical Fitness®

Ethical Fitness®

Train-the-Trainer

Ethics & Parenting

Moral Courage™

Moral Courage™

Train-the-Trainer

Tone-at-the-Top™

Tone-at-the-Top™

Train-the-Trainer

Customized Workshops

DECISION SKILLS SERIES

Elementary Decision Skills (K–2)

Elementary Decision Skills (3–5)

Building Decision Skills

Decision Skills for Colleges

SPECIAL TOPICS

Ethics & Service (Service Learning)

Ethics & Choices (Youth at Risk)

How Big is Your Backyard? (Environmental)

Tough Choices: Today and in History (History)

WHY DOES ETHICS MATTER? Participants will

develop insight into the role of ethics in our society

today, the critical need for personal ethics, and the need

for a focus on ethics in schools.

ETHICAL BAROMETER As the 21st century gets

underway, many people are calling into question our

ability to meet new ethical challenges. But how does

our ethical barometer read? Is it rising or falling? What

kinds of ethical issues do we find at home, at work, and

reported in the news? Why is ethics “essential” rather

than simply a “luxury?”

SHARED VALUES By the end of this module, partici-

pants will understand the difference between bedrock,

ethical, and other kinds of values. They will be able to

identify the important fea tures of a code of ethics. And

they will see that it is possible for a group of individuals

to come to agreement on a set of core, ethical values.

CAROUSEL OF VALUES What next? How might

we use the list of shared values we have created? In

this module, participants will define in terms of specific

behaviors what it means to be an ethical leader, teacher,

student, or parent.

SCHOOLS OF INTEGRITY While individual skill

building is essential to ethical development and aware-

ness of one’s ethical values and common ground with

others, this module examines school culture: the condi-

tions and structures that support and encourage ethical

behavior. Participants examine their own school in light

of findings from the Schools of Integrity research.

HIDDEN CURRICULUM CAFÉ The hidden curricu-

lum is powerful: it signals how closely we walk our talk,

and uphold our ethics in schools. Unlike the formal and

extra curriculum, the hidden curriculum may or may not

be deliberate, and is sometimes not even understood or

noticed by adults in the school community. Students, in

contrast, are always tuned into the hidden curriculum.

TRUST CAFÉ In this module, participants will explore

the tough ethical dilemmas inherent in running schools

and consider approaches to building cultures where

trust and self-regulation are the norm.

DILEMMA ANALYSIS The most difficult ethical di-

lemmas occur when two of our core ethical values come

into conflict. By the end of this module, participants

will understand the concept of an ethical dilemma as

a conflict of right versus right and will be able to give

examples for each of the four dilemma paradigms.

DILEMMA RESOLUTION It is not enough simply to

understand what kind of ethical problem we are facing.

By the end of this module, participants will know three

different principles for resolving an ethical dilemma and

will be able to apply each of them to a number of actual

dilemmas. They will also understand the concept of find-

ing an appropriate third way out.

MORAL COURAGE By the end of this module,

participants will have an appreciation for the courage it

often takes to make and act on a tough ethical decision,

and understand that moral courage often involves

personal sacrifice.

CUSTOMIZED WORKSHOP MODULES

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

TRAIN-THE-TRAINER WORKSHOPS

ETHICAL LITERACY® CULTURE IMMERSION

Building School Culture™

Our four-hour or full-day, highly interactive

workshop helps teachers, staff and administra-

tors build awareness about why ethics matter,

come together around their core ethical values

and their common purpose in schools, and

consider ways to forward ethics across their

school culture.

Ethical Fitness®

Our four-hour or full-day Ethical Fitness Semi-

nar helps provide educators with the tools and

confidence required to resolve tough, values-

based dilemmas. Hundreds of people connect-

ed 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.

Ethics & Parenting

This workshop promotes a quick-paced, highly

interactive conversation that is designed for

parents and educators who want to strengthen

integrity in young people. The objective is to

give parents the tools to guide children through

ethical dilemmas and engage them in mean-

ingful conversations without sounding preachy,

irrelevant, or old-fashioned.

Moral Courage™

Our half- or full-day seminar is an interactive,

small group course to help educators under-

stand the importance of moral courage in 21st-

century culture; learn how to identify it, define

its elements, put it into practice for themselves,

and help others recognize and embody it.

Tone-at-the-Top™

Our four-hour highly interactive Tone-at-the-

Top Seminar establishes processes for admin-

istrative leadership to explore the tough ethical

dilemmas inherent in running schools, to com-

municate ethical decisions effectively, and to

consider approaches to building cultures where

trust and self-regulation are the norm.

Customized Workshops

Each client has specific needs that may not

be met by purchasing one of our standard

workshops listed above. Clients can mix and

match modules from the list of highly interac-

tive, research-based service modules to build

customized workshops lasting anywhere from a

minimum of 2 hours to a maximum of 8 hours

(see listing to the right).

IGE is committed to providing affordable

ways to support the professional development

of educators for the long-term. Our Train-

the-Trainer workshops build capacity while

providing important conceptual background

and skills—from ethics vocabulary, and 21st

awareness, to practice in fielding difficult

questions, providing compelling examples,

and sharing relevant anecdotes with fellow

educators. Honing leadership and group

development skills, the trainings help school

or district-based professional development

providers build the confidence and capacity

to effectively engage leadership, faculty, staff,

and students in ethics concepts and processes.

Participants test their understanding of

concepts, explore different points of view,

practice facilitation, and discuss a variety of

examples in depth.

Train-the-Trainer Workshops are available for

delivery of IGE’s:

Building School Culture™

Ethical Fitness®

Moral Courage™

Tone-at-the-Top™

Ethical Literacy® equips school-based teams

to educate the entire school community about

ethics, engaging all constituents in building a

school culture where “doing the right thing” is

top priority. Ethical Literacy blends individual

skill building and examination of best

practices in schools that effectively balance

attention to academic rigor and to students’

ethical development, toward an institutional

alignment around ethics.

Through ongoing support over a minimum

period of three years, teams are provided with

the tools needed to help each member of their

community to:

Discover and articulate shared ethical

values

Develop a shared language for ethics

discourse

Integrate ethics in content areas and daily

interactions

Sharpen ethical decision-making and

articulation skills to:

Consistently uphold core ethical values—

even under pressure

Think through any decision’s potential

impact

Recognize and address right-versus-

wrong temptations as well as right-

versus-right ethical dilemmas

Anticipate and understand the need for

moral courage and take a stand based on

moral principle

Consistently self-monitor and improve in

the realm of ethics

Revitalize vision and mission through the

lens of ethics

There are three broad phases to an Ethical

Literacy initiative at any school, and the

Institute helps each step of the way:

First, by establishing the will, the need, and

the team to carry forward this initiative;

Second, by training the team in deep

conceptual work and activity delivery.

Collaborating to produce a specific, time-

and-date-driven action plan for aligning the

entire school community around ethics; and

Third, by supporting the team through

follow-on coaching, assessment, activity

development, access to an online

community or network schools, and shared

learning opportunities, to carry out the

work in a thoughtful, coordinated manner.

Community Forum

The forum is designed to promote a positive

community connection to improve school or

district climate. The forum is a key starting

point for identifying the shared ethical values

that all adults can agree to model and uphold.

The forum engages community members and

educators around the importance of ethics

education and leads participants to a set of

common ethical values that everyone can sup-

port and use to guide future planning.

Keynotes

Ethics is everywhere and truly matters on every

level and in every instance. Our experienced

speakers can bring ethical awareness to your

school community while inspiring commit-

ment to integrity. Through a collaborative

process we will customize keynotes to meet

your community’s needs.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Training in:

Key Concepts

Frameworks

Skill Building

Action Planning

Ongoing Coaching

Total Culture Assessment

Formative Assessment

Special Online Community

Events

Customized Activities

Annual Conference

Access to All Archives

The conference was important for

helping us to see how to bring Ethical

Literacy more intentionally into all

of our divisions in developmentally

appropriate ways.

Cory Stutts, Middle School Director,

Catherine Cook School (Chicago, IL)

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Consulting

Culture Assessment

Focus Groups

Executive & Leadership

Coaching

Annual Ethical Literacy

Conference

Speaking Engagements

Community forums

Keynotes