Our Centers For Ethics:

Living Up to the Public Trust Seminars

Ethical and risk-management issues for school administrators

A powerful program to help you protect your school's reputation and resources, this course offers seven hours of instruction designed to significantly improve your ability to serve and protect your schools.

• Compliance and beyond: How to assure that all educational decision-makers have the knowledge and commitment necessary to assure compliance with applicable laws and regulations as well as the skill to perceive, avoid, and deal with costly and damaging accusations of legal or ethical wrongdoing
  
  
• Working together and resolving internal disputes: How school administrators and board members can stay above politics and work more effectively with each other and how school superintendents and principals can better avoid disruptive internal disputes that can result in dysfunctional conflicts and embarrassing media coverage or lawsuits
  
  
• Creating an ethical culture: How to assess and strengthen the ethical culture in your district and in individual schools so that all internal and external relationships and transactions reflect commitment to the highest ethical standards and principles of public-service ethics
  
  
• Evaluating character and ethics in hiring and promotion: How to screen, train, evaluate, and discipline new hires and existing employees so as to promote an ethical culture
  
  
• Dealing with vocal and powerful parents and politicians: How to maintain the integrity of your processes and fairly deal with those who want special treatment and are willing to use their power to get it
  
  
• Managing your sports program: How to monitor and manage sports programs that promote and are consistent with the educational objectives of schools, build strong character in participants, and assure that coaches and teams consistently model the highest standards of ethics and sportsmanship
  
  
• Modeling good character and ethics: How to assure that administrators, teachers, and staff consistently model good character and ethics
  
  
• Improve decision-making: How to teach others to make better decisions that are both ethical and effective

Tuition and registration
Your $395 tuition covers enrollment and all course materials. Hotel accommodations are usually available at a reduced rate. See schedule and register now »

• Save on travel costs and receive discounts by hosting a program in your community.
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Questions? Please call 800-711-2670 or e-mail us.