Register now for Ethical Fitness® Training!
September 30 - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Pew Charitable Trusts at One Commerce Square, 2005 Market St., Suite 2800,
Philadelphia, PA
The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE), the country’s leading ethics
think tank, has chosen Philadelphia to kick off a nationwide City-Wide
Training Initiative to provide ethics education on an unprecedented scale
to K-12 schools, universities, government agencies and nonprofit organizations
in target cities.
On Wednesday, September 30, IGE Ethical Fitness trainers will be offering
a free training to area nonprofit and educational leaders from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. at the offices of The Pew Charitable Trusts at One Commerce
Square, 2005 Market St., Suite 2800.
The four-hour event on September 30 is just the beginning. It previews
an IGE training series made possible through a $25,000
Hamilton Family Foundation sponsorship aimed at improving ethical education among youth. The Hamilton Family
Foundation is a small private family foundation that supports education
programs for underserved Philadelphia children and youth.
Thanks to the sponsorship, IGE is positioned to provide ethics trainings
to nonprofits, schools and government agencies in the greater Philadelphia
area. Topics include
Ethical Fitness,
Moral Courage,
Ethics and Parenting,
Tone-at-the-Top, and
Building School Culture.
This won’t be IGE’s first time working in the Philadelphia
area. From 2012 to 2014, IGE provided ethics training at Church Farm School,
a boys’ college prep institution in Exton. Trainers worked with
history teacher Doug Magee to build a school-wide focus on integrity using
the IGE ethical framework.
The project “has helped us define who we are collectively,”
Magee says.
High school is a hotbed of social interactions and dilemmas that demand
ethical decisions — decisions that aren’t always as simple
as choosing between right and wrong. IGE calls these “right vs.
right” dilemmas. The initiative at Church Farm School started by
sparking a conversation to define the community’s shared values,
and then trained students and teachers in cognitive tools to deal with
the dilemmas that inevitably develop when different values collide.
“Ethical literacy is important for us at Church Farm School,”
Magee says. The school has a diverse student body, and ethical training
“helps us to explore each other’s’ background with greater
depth and really adds this dynamic element to our school community.”
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