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STANDARD 5: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY Education leaders make decisions, model, and behave in ways that demonstrate professionalism, ethics, integrity, justice, and equity and hold staff to the same standard.
Element 5A: Reflective Practice Leaders act upon a personal code of ethics that requires continuous reflection and learning.
Element 5B: Ethical Decision-Making Leaders guide and support personal and collective actions that use relevant evidence and available research to make fair and ethical decisions.
Element 5C: Ethical Action Leaders recognize and use their professional influence with staff and the community to develop a climate of trust, mutual respect, and honest communication necessary to consistently make fair and equitable decisions on behalf of all students.
Cultural Proficiency.mp4When considering ethics, we have to have cultural proficiency as part of the conversation. Anytime we act, our actions are biased by our past and present perceptions - when we know this, we can begin to address issues that inhibit trusting and respectful communication.
Many of our educational code policies have ethics based backgrounds. Schools have been testing grounds for civil liberties and unalienable rights. No student can be denied these on the basis of our opinions or preferences - it is imperative to know these laws, and to hold ourselves and staff accountable to these liberties.
The FRISK model of personnel management lends itself to Standard 5 for helping maintain standards of ethics for staff. The model calls for factual recall of events, opportunities for staff to resolve behaviors and then concrete timelines and consequences for unchanged behavior. This model is important because allows leaders to provide relevant evidence in an unbiased way to ensure that integrity of classrooms is secure.
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