MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• Taken together
• Taken seriously
• To help students

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• COMPASSION to be on fire for all members of the
  school community.
• Concern for the overall well-being of all
  colleagues and students.
• To be a school of compassion requires
  interpersonal communication to understand others,
  needs, concerns and interests.
• Teachers first teach students, not test scores!

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• WHOLENESS All levels of Blooms taxonomy
  (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,
  synthesis and evaluation)
• -Commitment to physical, emotional, intellectual,
  social, creative, moral and spiritual development
  for all students and staff.

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MORAL PRINCIPLES IN A GOOD SCHOOL

• CONNECTEDNESS school must be relevant to the
  present and to the future.
• Inter-curricular connections must be made.
• Connected to the city, state, national and world
  communities.
• Administrators, teachers and students should all
  engage in leadership, teaching and learning.

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• INCLUSION all students are of equal worth as
  human beings and as members of the school
  community.
• Equity those students with needs require extra
  assistance.
• All categories of students low income,
  minorities, migrants, behavioral problems

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• JUSTICE facilitating teaching and learning.
• Holding teachers accountable for effective
  instruction and holding students accountable for
  learning.
• Feedback on ones performance and assistance for
  improving future performance.

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• JUSTICE treating members of the school
  community in a fair and consistent manner.
• Modeling justice for students and staff so that
  they will treat others justly.

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• PEACE student misbehavior that interferes with
  the right to learn/ increase in student violence.
• Effective school discipline needs to be matched
  with a school of peace.
• Work on communication, collaboration and conflict
  management skills.

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• PEACE leaders, teachers, staff and students see
  themselves as healers and peacemakers.
• We need to problem-solve on the lack of peace in
  our schools what can we do together?

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MORAL PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD SCHOOL

• FREEDOM to dream, to explore, to take risks, and
  to learn from failures.
• How to learn, how to demonstrate learning.
• Pressure of standardized testing gets in the way
  of this.

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MORAL PRINCIPLES IN A GOOD SCHOOL

• TRUST efforts at compassion, wholeness,
  connectedness, inclusion, justice, peace and
  freedom can lead to trusting relationships in the
  school community.
• Trust in relationships, moral principles (that if
  we follow these, better education.)

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MORAL PRINCIPLES IN A GOOD SCHOOL

• EMPOWERMENT involving people in decision making
  about matters that affect them.
• Involved in leadership, teaching and learning.
• Teaching all to empower each other.

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MORAL PRINCIPLES IN A GOOD SCHOOL

• COMMUNITY of leaders, teachers, staff and
  learners.
• A group committed to the overall well-being,
  growth and development of each member.
• Values, norms, relationships and practices
  consistent with the mission.
• Collegiality, collaboration and celebration of
  where we are at and where we are going?