ETHICS

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ETHICS INTEGRITYGPISD STAFF
DEVELOPMENTDEPARTMENT REGION 10
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Integrity

• Lose your wealth and you have lost nothing.
• Lose your health and you have lost something.
• Lose your integrity and you have lost everything.

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Integrity
Is the inner voice that warns us Somebody is
Looking
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Integrity
Dont compromise yourself
all
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Rather fail with honor
Than
succeed
by
fraud
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What you are
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Real integrity
Stays in place Whether the test is
Adversity Or Prosperity
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It is better
To deserve Honors And not have them Than to have
them And Not deserve them
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Stand up for what is right
Even if you are standing alone
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WHAT

• Developing Citizens of Character for our
  Society/District/Campus
• What do citizens of character look like in the
  ADULTS CHILDREN in your school?
• Talk with your table and report out to the
  facilitator.

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WHY
THE BAD NEWS!
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A Cheating Culture

• Widespread pattern of cheating in the US
• Hard to document
• Evidence suggests Americans are cheating more and
  feeling less guilty
• Idea that everybody does it makes it socially
  acceptable
• Professional life has changed such that playing
  by the rules automatically places you below
  average
• Americans have two sets of ethical compasses
• Compass for things like sex, family, drugs and
  traditional types of crime
• A second compass for career, money, and success

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What is a Cheating Culture?

• Breaking the rules to get ahead academically,
  professionally, or financially
• Sometimes it involves breaking or violating laws,
  sometimes it does not
• Most of it is done by people who view themselves
  as upstanding members of society
• At your table, define cheating and dishonesty
  (include both students and adults in your
  discussion). Report out to your facilitator.

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Transformations Leading toMore Cheating

• New pressures
• Temptation
• Bigger rewards for winning
• Trickle down corruption
• What temptations exist in your school? In your
  district? List specific things YOU know of that
  lead to adults and/or students cheating.

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A Cure for Cheating Culture

• Recognize cheating as undermining important
  American Ideals
• People place themselves at a disadvantage if
  they play by official rules rather than the real
  rules need to change this.
• Encourage and support community life
• Combat entrenched cheating
• Equalize rewards and punishments
• Teach future generations
• Model, Model, and more Role Modeling!

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What else can YOU add from YOUR table?

• Discuss with your tablewhat else can add to the
  CURE for cheating????

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Generations Alive Today

• GI Generation (Born 1901 1931)
• WWII Generation/Greatest Generation
• Mediating Generation (Born 1932 1944)
• Silent Generation
• Boomer Generation (Born 1945 1963)
• Baby Boomers
• Diversity Generation (Born 1964 1981)
• Gen X/Lost Generation
• Millennial Generation (Born 1982 2001)
• Gen Y/Internet Generation

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Why
The Good News
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GI Generation (Born 1901-1931)

• Brokaws Greatest Generation
• Lived as young adults through great depression
• Were heroes of WWII
• Examples George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bob
  Dole, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosa Parks

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Mediating Generation (Born 1932 1944)

• Too young for WWII, very few served in Korea,
  mostly too old for Vietnam
• Unobtrusive children of depression and war
  (Strauss Howe)
• Created corporate system, reinforced employee
  loyalty organizational man
• Viewed issues as more complex than GI generation
• Examples Madeline Albright, Bill Cosby, Sofia
  Loren, Tony Bennett, Shirley MacLaine

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Boomer Generation(Born 1945 1963)

• Perhaps most famous because of sheer numbers
  changing systems as they move through life cycle
• First American generation raised in a culture of
  abundance and influenced by TV
• Seem intensely self-immersed work is important
  for personal identity
• Idealistic boomers believe process and
  participation can solve any problem
• Examples Bill Hillary Clinton, Oprah, Tom
  Hanks, Rush Limbaugh, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce
  Springsteen, Hamilton Jordan

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Diversity Generation(Born 1964 1981)

• Came of age as society was dealing with
  increasing divorces, AIDS, increases in violence
  and child suicide
• Remember gas rationing, Iran hostages, urban
  crime
• Most significant message heard as they came of
  age was they would not do as well as their
  parents
• Get along well with GI generation but not so well
  with Mediating and Boomer parents
• Examples Rob Lowe, Tiger Woods, Kurt Kobain,
  Ricki Lake, Sheryl Crow, Queen Latifah

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Millennial Generation(Born 1982 2003)

• Coming of age in the Internet, economic boom and
  speculation, political and business scandals,
  sophisticated media
• Believed by many demographers to be most
  different generation smarter, better behaved,
  more civic minded
• Beneficiaries of post-modern generational guilt
• Examples Serena Williams, Prince William and
  Henry, LeAnn Rimes, Lindsey Lohan

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Things We Are Seeing

• Astonishing decline in violent crime, homicide,
  abortion and pregnancy among teens
• Evidence of decline in drug use, smoking,
  drinking
• Key paradox Millennials are the most team
  oriented and smartest generation AND take orders
  better than any other living generation
• Movement towards more altruistic disciplines
• Somewhat more conservative

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Opportunity

• Millennial share tremendous potential for
  leadership
• Possible to get arms around social issues let
  loose by boomers in the 60s
• Will endorse or reject things and their stamp of
  approval will be final
• Coffee, tobacco, marijuana

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How

• Tools for Teachers
• Character Counts
• Texas Teacher Code of Ethics

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Character Counts!
What are the six pillars of character? Talk with
your table and list on chart paper one pillar
per sheet
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Character Counts!
As a group,on the chart paper DEFINE each pillar
and give a classroom example of each
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how these pillars are integrated into what YOU
teach (do so by grade level or content areafor
exampleall math teachers rotate and add Math
examples for each pillar)
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Texas Teacher Code of Ethics

• Three Standards (SBEC revised 09-01-02)
• Professional Ethical Conduct, Practices and
  Performance
• Ethical Conduct Toward Professional Colleagues
• Ethical Conduct Toward Students

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Whats included in each of the three standards?

• Divide into three teams/tables
• Someone at your table/from your team, do a
  computer internet search for the SBEC Educators
  Code of Ethics and share with your group

• Each group then explains what is included in the
  standard to the whole group

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Essential Tools in Developing Ethical Leaders

• Understanding of the student
• Modeling/Optimal similarity
• Relevant topics for discussion
• Emphasis on experiential and applied
• Character Counts
• Good role models in schools

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WHAT CAN BE DONE NOW?Make a list and share out.
Identify those things you can make a commitment
to do regularly.

• What can students do?

• What can I do?

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Peter Drucker

• Management is doing things right leadership is
  doing the right things.

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There is a deep strain in the American psyche
that the end justifies the means.

• David Callahan

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Boeing Co. Slogan

• Between right and wrong is a troublesome gray
  area

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Integrity is taking only ONE cookie when no one
would know if you took TWO

• Dennis the Menace

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In public, as in private life, I am persuaded
that HONESTY will forever be found to be the best
policy

• George Washington

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People will forget what you said,People will
forget what you did,But people will never
forgetHow you made them feel.

• Maya Angelou