Whether you are an individual classroom 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.

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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.
OUR MISSION
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
A snapshot of the Ethical Literacy®
Learning Community.
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Integrating Ethics into
Your School Community
Dedicated to Building School Cultures of Integrity.
SCHO O L LE ADE RSHI PST UDE NTSSTAFF PARE NTS FACULT 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.
TEACHERS
OTHER STUDENTSCOACHES
LEADER SHIP STAFF
PARENTS
THE COMMUNITY
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.

2. 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 Webinars
Provide 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
lookingtoprovideprofessionaldevelopmentinethicsforyourstafforasuperintendentwhowants
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:
MEMBERSHIP
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOPS
ETHICAL LITERACY®
CULTURE IMMERSION
ADDITIONAL 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 fea­tures 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