Creating the Ethical School

Addressing the many ethical issues that arise daily in school, this volume is a hands-on guide for all K–12 practitioners, an excellent teaching tool for preparing future teachers, and an essential resource for anyone who wants to create a caring and supportive school environment.

Features:

• Realistic, provocative, and ethically challenging case studies that can be adapted to both private and public school settings.
• A range of encounters educators are apt to experience, such as between teacher and teacher, teacher and student, parent and teacher, and parent and administrator.
• An array of ethical dilemmas and issues encountered at different grade levels on topics such as: racism, teasing, cheating, plagiarism, anorexia, free speech, violence, religion, and much more!
• Appendixes listing ethical standards for each member of the school community and overviews of student understandings of right and wrong, presented according to grade level.

Bongsoon Zubay was Director of the State University Urban Teacher Education Center in New York City and Jonas F. Soltis is Teachers College, Columbia University’s William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Philosophy and Education Emeritus and coauthor of The Ethics of Teaching and The Ethics of School Administration.

“One of the best ethics primers for teachers and administrators that I have ever read.”
—From the Foreword by Robert J. Nash

“Should find a place in every school. Zubay and Soltis present a stunning variety of gritty and morally challenging cases fresh from the classroom that stimulate our ethical sense and challenge us to think anew. I recommend that all teachers read this book and discuss it with their colleagues.”
—Michael G. Thompson, coauthor of “Best Friends, Worst Enemies” and “Raising Cain”

“Captures the degree to which teachers, school administrators, parents, and students live in a world of minute-to-minute ethical choices. These are provocative, realistic case studies that will prompt energetic discussion.”
—Tyler C. Tingley, Principal, Phillips Exeter Academy