PROMOTING ETHICAL BEHAVIOR FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

Abstract

Ethics is not unique to the profession of education. All professionals, from doctors and lawyers to carpenters to fry cooks are expected to perform their jobs ethically. School administrators perform their jobs ethically when they promote procedures that seek to enhance student learning by addressing the intellectual, emotional, and physical safety needs of students and staff. Ethical school administrators promote campus values in which all students receive a quality education that incorporates the teaching of respect for others and self, integrity, citizenship, and sense of commitment and obligation to the school and community—critical components for developing a safe and productive environment in which all students can learn and for contributing to the vitality of modern society.