Smart & Good High Schools - The Flippen Group

ELC PRINCIPLE 4: TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTINUOUSSELF-DEVELOPMENT..............................................................................481. Promote the value of striving for excellence and ethics ascentral to a fulfilling life in school and beyond. .........................48• Communicate the school’s vision to incoming students. .........49• Invite graduates back to speak................................................492. Promote ongoing self-reflection on the quest for excellenceand ethics. ..................................................................................493. Challenge students to move outside their comfort zone.............494. Create a culture of excellence in classrooms, and aschoolwide system that monitors and supports achievement. .....49• Creating a Culture of Excellence: Five PedagogicalPractices (box)........................................................................50• Develop schoolwide support systems that hold all studentsaccountable for learning.........................................................515. Foster personal responsibility for excellence and ethicsamong faculty and staff, parents, and the wider community. ......51• Help parents become their best..............................................51• 10 Ways to Start a Conversation With Your Teen (box)...........52• Create communities of character. ...........................................52• Collaborate to create career opportunities. ............................53ELC PRINCIPLE 5: PRACTICE COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITYFOR EXCELLENCE AND ETHICS...............................................................531. Model care-frontation as adults. .................................................542. Create a school norm of collective responsibility andstructures that institutionalize it. ................................................55• Brother’s Keeper ....................................................................55• Discovery Group.....................................................................55• Discovery Group Journaling Questions (box).........................55• Concern Meeting ....................................................................55ELC PRINCIPLE 6: GRAPPLE WITH THE TOUGH ISSUES—THE ELEPHANTSIN THE LIVING ROOM...........................................................................561. Identify the elephants.................................................................56• What Are the Elephants in Our Living Room? (box)...............57• Use a special survey to get data on a particular elephant........572. Create study groups to grapple with high-priority issues.............583. Help families confront their issues.............................................58CHAPTER 4: The Professional Ethical Learning Community (PELC): Facultyand Staff Collaborating to Integrate Excellence and Ethics ........61The Interdependence of Excellence and Ethics ...................................62PROMISING PRACTICES FOR THE 6 PRINCIPLES OF A PROFESSIONALETHICAL LEARNING COMMUNITY (PELC) (box)...................................64PELC PRINCIPLE 1: DEVELOP SHARED PURPOSE AND IDENTITY. ..................651. Develop a school mission that has excellence and ethicsxSmart & Good High Schools