The third module in the education leadership programme for Principals in Nepalese primary schools. This one focuses on values and ethics and how a shared "set" can build commitment to change.

1. Education Leadership
Module 3
Values

2. Introduction
This full day is once againVERY interactive! You will
work alone, in pairs, and in table groups to think
about your school and it's values, or it's ethical
environment. Values is about standards, the
standards you set for behaviour, like a moral code.
1.Review of yesterday's work on Vision in your school
2.Values definintion; a review of Foundation course
3.School “citizenship”
4.How to facilitate a Values session with your staff
5.Action Learning task

3. Review
Education Leadership
1. VISION (Giving Direction)
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Having a dream, a view, a vision of a better school
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Defining and working towards a better quality of
education for your community
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Having a vision which is clear, written down, shared
with and agreed with by all including staff, SMC,
parents
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Gandhi SAW a better future for his country, he had a
VISION of independence and equality.

4. Vision Task-Review
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Yesterday in your school
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With your teachers
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Described what we did
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Shared your school Vision with them
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Asked for suggestions they want to add
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Asked for their commitment and effort
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Prepared some notes to share with us all today
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SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES NOW ON TABLE
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SHARE WITH ALL

5. Another example
Leadership?
I have a dream that one day even
the state of Mississippi, a state
sweltering with the heat of
injustice, sweltering with the
heat of oppression, will be
transformed into an oasis of
freedom and justice.
We must ever conduct our
struggle on the high plane of
dignity and discipline.

6. Leaders as people
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Leaders have a clear VISION
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Leaders have high moral VALUES
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Leaders want to DEVELOP things to be better
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Leaders are LEARNERS
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Leaders solve problems, NEVER SATISFIED
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Leaders make CHANGE happen
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Leaders are PERSISTENT, never give up

7. Education Leadership
1.VALUES (Building Commitment)
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Setting high personal standards in everything you do
such as timekeeping, personal behaviour, learning,
teaching, managing
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Having a clear set of personal, moral and social
values
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Encouraging your staff to do the same
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Agreeing a set of clear values and behaviours for
your school
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Gandhi had very strong values and morals. Non
violence, equality!

8. Values-Foundation Review
1. All leaders have high personal standards, they have
strong values
2. If you want to be an Education Leader you must
show you have strong values too
3. What can you remember about values from
Foundation course?
1. Definition? Somebody tell me!
2. The Onion? Somebody come and draw it!
3. Three types? What are they! Examples!

9. Values-Review
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Values Definition
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What something is worth TO YOU
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How important something is to you
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A personal judgement
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Something of high importance
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INTANGIBLE

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Values-Review
 An onion has many layers
 You can only see the outer
layer
 You do not know if the
onion is rotten or bad inside
 We are like this as people

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Values-Review
Behaviour
Attitudes
Beliefs
Values
Core
Skin

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Values-Review
Values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviour are all
connected
Behaviour can be seen, heard, observed
Values, beliefs, attitudes can NOT be seen, heard,
observed
BUT, behaviour is CAUSED by our values,
beliefs attitudes
These are all important for your school

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Values Review
MORAL PERSONAL SOCIAL
Integrity Freedom Community
Fairness Achievement Family
Care Learning Friendship
Respect Discipline Affection
These are just a few examples from each category.
We will all have different ones.
They define our personal behaviour.
Important for Leadership, know yourself, know your people.

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Values Review
Personal Values
Moral Values
Social Values
Self
School
Behaviour
Citizenship

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Preparation Work
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What have you all done so far about values in
your school?
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Have you got a set of agreed values?
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Are you running V4C lessons?
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Have you made values posters?

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CITIZENSHIP
We need to review the values for being a
good citizen in your school
Values

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CITIZENSHIPOBLIGATIONS RIGHTS
FAIRNESS
EDUCATION
BEHAVIOUR
VALUES

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Citizenship Activity-Pairs
1. Values
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Choose 6 most important
values for your school
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Write them in workbook
2. Behaviours
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Choose some values related
behaviours for your school
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Write them in workbook
4. Fairness
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Describe what staff will do
for fairness to children
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Write in workbook
3. Education
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Describe the education in
your school to a parent
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Write it in workbook

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Citizenship Activity Review
1. How did you find that activity?
2. Did you complete all the 4 sections easily?
3. Are the 4 sections clear and understandable?
4. What should you now do with this in your school?
5. Can you repeat this activity with your staff so that
they all can contribute and be committed?
6. Would you like me to show you how to do it?
7.I will do it with NSA staff as if we were a school!

20. Nepal Schools Aid Academy
Facilitating a Staff Session
Facilitation Spectrum
Non-Directive
No agenda
Loose topic
No specified outcome
All views required
No notes taken
Lots of thinking
Typical V4C session
Very Directive
Agenda used
Focused topic
Specified outcome
All views required
Notes taken
Lots of thinking
Typical Staff session

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Staff Session-Citizenship
Agenda
1. First Thoughts
2. Build Concepts
3. Choose Concepts
4. Define Concepts
5. Prioritise
6. Action Plan

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Citizenship 1 First Thoughts
CITIZENSHIP
1.What comes to mind as
you look at this word?
2. All think silently for
one minute
3. Then tell us all your
opinion

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Citizenship 2 Build Concepts
1. Look at your list of First Thoughts
2. What do they tell us about our view of Citizenship
in our schools?
1. Do you understand them all
2. Are they a mixture of Rights & Obligations
3. Do any of them go together, group them
3. All discuss for 5 minutes to agree, then tell us your
opinion of what we have got

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Citizenship 3 Choose Concepts
1. You now have a broad list of Concepts for
Citizenship
2. Does one or some seem better than others
3. Which one(s) looks best to you
4. Go to the list and mark TWO you like best or make
most sense to you

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Citizenship 4 Define Concepts
1. We now have two things:
1. The NSA Citizenship Framework (4 EMPTY boxes)
2. Our list of important concepts
2. Our task now is to define and decide what each part
means so all can work by it and fill in the 4 boxes
3. This is like a Constitution for Nepal, but we are
faster than the politicians!

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Citizenship 4 Define Concepts
1.VALUES
What VALUES should we have as
part of our Citizenship
Think quietly, then tell us your Values
and why you chose them
2. BEHAVIOURS
What behaviours are important for the
Values we have chosen
Think quietly then tell us the
Behaviours and why you chose
them
4. FAIRNESS
How will fairness be shown in our
school
Think quietly then tell us your view
and why
3. EDUCATION
What are the main “features” to
describe education in our school
Think quietly then tell us your view
and why

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Citizenship 5 Prioritise
1. Look carefully at the four lists we have for Values,
Behaviours, Education, Fairness
2. We must now tidy it up so it is not so messy
3. Start to CHOOSE the bits you most want from each
list for your/our school
4. Go and put ONE “tick” on each list to prioritise the
ONE thing you think most important
5. Repeat until we have “balanced” lists
6. Redraw neatly the NSA Citizenship Framework

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Citizenship 6 Action Plan
What actions should now
be taken with this
framework in our school
Think quietly of all the
things we should do,
then tell us your main
three
Choose most important
Allocate/delegate
Agree time frame
Possible Actions
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Staff posters
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Class/student posters
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Show to SMC
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Show to parents
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Use in daily assembly
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Lessons to show/discuss
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Part of V4C
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Show DEO
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Use in school marketing

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Citizenship Review & Summary
1. How did you find that session?
2. Did it work?
3. Could you repeat it yourselves?
4. What have you learned about Citizenship?
5. What have you learned about Facilitation?
6. What have you learned about Leadership?

30. Review
Education Leadership
1. VALUES (Building Commitment)

Setting high personal standards in everything you do
such as timekeeping, personal behaviour, learning,
teaching, managing

Having a clear set of personal, moral and social
values

Encouraging your staff to do the same

Agreeing a set of clear values and behaviours for
your school

Gandhi had very strong values and morals. Non
violence, equality!

31. Nepal Schools Aid Academy
Action Learning Values Task
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Start to prepare your own session NOW for your
teachers, work with your partner, use the time!
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Tomorrow, in your school
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Share with everyone what we did today
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Run a Citizenship session as I just did
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Create your School Citizenship
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Create some notes to share the next day with us all