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Week 5: Ethics and Talent Management

*All parts of the weekly assignment must be completed at or above a rubric level 2 (approaching) to
receive a weekly grade. All weekly assignments and discussion boards must be completed in order
to receive a grade for the course.

Overview
The Week 5 assignments will focus on synthesizing the learning for the course and considering the role
that ethics plays in human talent management. As a principal, you will be thrust into many different
leadership roles and situations that will put all eyes on you. As a leader, it is essential to lead, teach, and
model for the staff and students. Your words need to match your actions because that will affect the
culture and climate of the campus. It is equally vital to be knowledgeable of best practices, instruction,
and technology to ensure that every student is getting a quality education. When working through the
assignments, consider all your new learning and how everything works together to improve instruction,
achievement, and campus culture.

Rubric
Use this rubric to guide the work on the Week 5 Assignment.

Tasks Level 1: Does Level 2: Level 3: Level 4:

not meet the Approaches Meets criteria Exceeds
minimum minimum (80-89%) criteria
criteria criteria (90-100%)
(Below 70%) (70-79%)

Week 5, Section A: The candidate The candidate The candidate The candidate
Ethical Practices: Case Study did not attempted to completed the provided an
complete the complete the assignment exemplary
case study or assignment, and response to the
did not but minimally demonstrated assignment
demonstrate demonstrated the required questions that
knowledge knowledge of knowledge demonstrated
and skills, as the Texas and skills critical
indicated in Educator Code regarding the thinking and
the Texas of Ethics in case study. analysis
Educator Code answering the regarding the
of Ethics. questions case study.
And/or did not related to the

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respond to the case study. (16 points)

questions
related to the
case study. (14 points)
(20 points)
(0 points)

Week 5 Section B: Candidate 1) The candidate The The candidate

Comprehensive System for created a job 1) candidates demonstrated
Human Talent Management description demonstrated demonstrated the capacity to
that did not the capacity to the capacity to 1) evaluate the
clarify the evaluate the 1) evaluate the ethical
Opening and Paragraph 2 identified local and legal ethical dimensions of
campus policies for dimensions of issues by
NELP Component 2.2 Ethical
staffing needs, developing a issues by developing a
Advocacy 
and 2) created job description developing a job description
Domain VI Ethics, Equity, and
a job posting aligned to job description that aligns to
Diversity 
that was not in campus that aligns to the campus
Competency 011a Ethics and
alignment staffing need the campus staffing need
Advocacy 
with local or but 2) lacked staffing need 2) analyze
SBEC Pillar #5 - Hiring,
legal policy. the alignment 2) analyze decisions in
Selection, and Retention 
  with the decisions in terms of
 
 The candidate district's terms of established
The candidate will use local and
had more than established established ethical
legal policies related to
three errors in policies ethical frameworks
recruitment, hiring, and selection
regarding frameworks evidenced by
to develop a job description based APA citations,
ethical hiring evidenced by following
on identified needs and develop a spelling, or practices following local and legal
job posting related to the job grammar. evidenced by local and legal policies
description.
the job posting policies related to job
and related to job postings. 
  3) lacked postings and  3)
  evidence of  3) communicated
  the ability to communicated about and
  communicate about and advocate for
  about and advocate for ethical and
  advocate for ethical and legal decisions
  ethical and legal decisions through both
  legal through both the job
  decisions, the job description
  evidenced by description and job
  the lack of and job posting
  alignment posting. and           
  with local and 4)  articulate
  legal policies. The candidate their
 

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    had 2-3 errors understanding

  The candidate in APA and capacity
  had more than citations, to undertake
three errors in and implement
spelling, or
this work
APA citations, grammar.   within a
spelling, or school setting.
grammar. (16 points)
   
(0 points) No errors in
APA citations,
spelling, or
grammar &
correctly
formatted.

(14 points)
 

(20 points)

Week 5 Section B: The candidate The candidate The candidate The candidate
Comprehensive System for does not explains explains and explains and
Human Talent Management articulate the how to engage provides provides
importance of staff in a examples action steps of
Paragraph 3 and collaborative how to engage how to
how to engage professional staff in a engage staff in
The candidate will provide a staff in a culture collaborative a
written response of the collaborative designed professional collaborative
development of a comprehensive professional to promote culture professional
culture school designed culture
plan for human talent
designed improvement, to promote designed
management, including a to promote teacher school to promote
paragraph on how to create a school retention, and improvement, school
collaborative professional culture improvement, the success teacher improvement,
to promote school improvement, teacher and well-being retention, and teacher
teacher retention, the success of retention, and of each the success retention, and
staff and students, and the the success student and and well-being the success
and well-being adult in the of each and well-being
development of an effective
of each school. student and of each
communication system. student and adult in the student and
adult in the The candidate school. adult in the
Domain II: Competency 3, A

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Competency 4, A Competency 5, school. provided little school.

A & B Competency 6, A description or The candidate
The information on can explain The candidate
candidates how to: how to: explains and
NELP Component 7.2 cannot explain 1) develop a 1) develop a provides
Collaborative Professional how to: Plan for a action steps of
Culture 1) develop a providing comprehensiv how to:
comprehensiv school e plan for 1) develop a
SBEC Pillar #6 – Observation e plan community providing comprehensiv
and Feedback for providing members with school e plan
school a healthy and community for providing
community positive members with school
members school a healthy and community
with a healthy building positive members
and environment, school with a healthy
positive 2) design a building and
school collaborative environment, positive
building professional 2) design a school
environment, culture, collaborative building
2) design and and professional environment,
cultivate 3) develop a culture, and 2) design a
a collaborative process 3) develop a collaborative
professional for modeling process professional
culture, and for modeling culture,
and fostering and and
3) model and effective fostering 3) develop a
foster communicatio effective process for
effective n. communicatio modeling and
communicatio n. fostering
n. The candidate effective
had more than The candidate communicatio
three errors in had 2-3 errors n.
The candidate in APA
APA citations,
had more than The candidate
spelling, or citations,
three errors in uses their
grammar. spelling, or skills,
APA citations, grammar. knowledge,
spelling, or and capacity
grammar. (16 points) to undertake
and
implement this
work within
a school
setting.

No errors in
APA citations,

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(14 points) spelling, or

(0 points) grammar &
correctly
formatted.

(20 points)
The candidate The candidate The candidate The candidate
Week 5 Section B: does not provides little explains, and a describes and
Comprehensive System for explain how to description of describes of provides
Human Talent Management engage in how to how to action steps of
personally, personally personally how to
Paragraph 4 as well as engage in, engage in, personally
collaboratively as well as as well as engage in,
engage school collaboratively collaboratively as well as
staff in, engage school engage school collaboratively
The candidate will provide a professional staff in, staff in, engage school
written response of the learning professional professional staff in,
development of an instructional designed to learning learning professional
promote designed to designed to learning
coaching program that including a
cultural promote promote designed to
paragraph on engaging all staff responsiveness cultural cultural promote
members in professional learning, , distributed responsiveness responsiveness cultural
evaluation of staff, cultural leadership and , distributed , distributed responsiveness
responsiveness, identification of digital leadership and leadership and , distributed
teacher leadership, distributed literacy. digital digital leadership and
leadership, digital literacy, and . literacy. literacy. digital
literacy.
summarizes the findings of the
The candidate The candidate The candidate
peer review of the plan.
had more than did not explains how
three errors in articulate the to: The candidates
NELP Component 7.3
findings from 1) evaluate explain how to
Professional Learning APA citations,
the peer professional and provide
spelling, or review. staff capacity specific
SBEC Pillar #6 – Observation grammar. . needs and examples of
and Feedback The candidate management how to:
had more than practices, 1) evaluate
three errors in 2) identify professional
leadership staff capacity
APA citations,
capabilities of needs and
spelling, or staff, management
grammar. 3) plan practices,
opportunities 2) identify
for leadership

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professional capabilities of
growth that staff,
promotes 3) plan
cultural opportunities
responsiveness for
and professional
digital growth that
literacy. promotes
4) plan cultural
opportunities responsiveness
for engaging , and
staff in digital
leadership literacy.
roles, and 4) plan
5) develop a opportunities
plan for engaging
for utilizing staff in
digital leadership
technology in roles, and
ethical and 5) develop a
appropriate plan
ways for utilizing
to foster digital
professional technology in
learning for ethical and
self and appropriate
others. ways
to foster
professional
(16 points) learning for
self and
others.

(0 points) The candidate

uses their
skills,
(14 points) knowledge,
and capacity
to undertake
and
implement this
work within
a school
setting.

No errors in
APA citations,

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spelling, or
grammar &
correctly
formatted.

(20 points)

The candidate The candidate Candidate The candidate

Week 5 Section B: does not lacks explains explains and
Comprehensive System for explain how specificity in how to provides
Human Talent Management to: the evaluate, action steps of
1) evaluate explanation of develop, how to
Paragraphs 5 and 6 professional how to: and implement evaluate,
staff capacity 1) evaluate systems develop,
The candidate will provide a needs and professional of supervision, and implement
written response of the management staff capacity support, systems
development of an instructional practices, needs and and evaluation of supervision,
2) identify management designed support,
coaching program that includes a
leadership practices, to promote and evaluation
paragraph on evaluation, support capabilities of 2) identify school designed
and supervision, district policies, staff, leadership improvement to promote
feedback, and use of instructional 3) plan capabilities of and student school
best practices to promote school opportunities staff, success. improvement
improvement and student success. for 3) plan and student
professional opportunities The candidate success.
growth for explains how
that promote professional to: The candidates
reflection, growth that 1) observe provide a
cultural promote teaching in a specific plan
The candidate will create an responsiveness reflection, variety of for how to:
instructional coaching plan based , cultural classrooms, 1) observe
on the data provided in the case digital responsiveness 2) does not teaching in a
study and researched best literacy, , provide variety of
school digital district classrooms,
practices in instruction. improvement, literacy, policies 2) gather and
and school on analyze
NELP Component 7.4 Supervisi
student improvement, instructional district
on, Support, and Evaluation success, and expectations, policies on
4) engage staff student 3) provide instructional

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Domain III Human Capital in success, teaching expectations,

leadership 4) engage staff staff with 3) provide
Competency 005 Coaching and roles, and in feedback to teaching
Professional Development 5) utilize leadership support staff with
digital roles, and improvement, actionable
SBEC Pillar #6 – Observation technology in 5) utilize and feedback to
and Feedback ethical digital 4) develop a support
and technology in system for improvement,
appropriate ethical monitoring and
ways and whether 4) develop a
to foster appropriate supervision system for
professional ways and monitoring
learning for to foster evaluation whether
self and professional strategies supervision
others. learning for promote and evaluation
self and improvement. strategies
The others. promote
candidates do Closing improvement.
not explain The candidates paragraph
how to: explain but summarized The candidate
1) observe lack and detailed uses their
teaching in a specificity in future skills,
variety of how to: professional knowledge,
classrooms, 1) observe impact. and capacity
2) gather and teaching in a to undertake
review variety of The student and
district classrooms, had 2-3 errors implement this
policies 2) does not in APA work within
on provide a school
citations,
instructional district setting.
expectations, policies spelling, or
3) provide on grammar. Closing
teaching instructional paragraph
staff with expectations (16 points) summarized
actionable 3) How it will and detailed
feedback to impact school future
support improvement professional
improvement, and student impact.
and success.
4) develop a No errors in
system for The closing APA citations,
monitoring paragraph spelling, or
whether summarized
grammar &
supervision but did not
and detail future correctly
evaluation professional formatted.
strategies impact.

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promote
improvement. The candidate
had more than
No summary three errors in
or detail of
APA citations,
future
professional spelling, or
impact. grammar.
Multiple APA,
spelling, and (14 points)
grammar
errors.

(0 points)

(20 points)

Week 5: Code of Ethics (W5LO1, W5LO2, CLO2, and CLO3)

Use your experiences and the shared experiences of others (such as your mentor) to complete this week’s
assignment.
Resource:
Access the TAC Chapter 247 Educators’ Code of Ethics at the following link:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/sbecrules/tac/chapter247/ch247.html

Week 5, Section A: Case Study. (W5LO2, W5LO3, CLO2, and CLO 3)

Directions:
1. Read the case study:

2. Carefully analyze the events in the case study as you read.

3. Answer the questions related to the case study.

Debra Pennington, principal of Weldon Elementary School, faced a tearful and distraught teacher. When

second-grade teacher Nancy Musick told Ms Pennington last week that she would be out for several

weeks, beginning a chemotherapy regime for breast cancer, Nancy had assumed that the conversation

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would be confidential. However, yesterday afternoon at the local Kroger Superstore, another Weldon

Elementary School teacher, Paula Carter, shared her concerns about Nancy's health and wished her a full

recovery. Since Nancy had told only one person, her principal, about her medical condition, she knew that

Debra had not kept their conversation private.

Indeed, Debra had discussed Nancy’s cancer diagnosis and treatment with two other second-grade

teachers soon after Nancy left her office last Wednesday afternoon. They had considered plans for a

substitute teacher to teach in Nancy’s absence and whether to tell the second graders about the seriousness

of Nancy’s illness.

Now Nancy is distraught, charging Debra with betraying confidence. "If I had wanted the entire school to

know, I would have told them myself. I trusted you to help me, and you let me down."

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Can you justify the actions of the principal in the case ? Why or why not?

No, I do not believe that the actions of the principal in the case can be justified, according to the

educator code of ethics standard 2.1, The educator shall not reveal confidential health or personnel

information concerning colleagues unless disclosure serves lawful professional purposes or is required

by law.” I understand her reasoning behind sharing this information to the teachers to fill the position.

But when she shared the information about needing to fill the job the principal should just asked them

to help her with filling the position not the teacher’s personal health information.

2. How would you handle this conference if you were the principal?

I would begin by apologizing for telling the other teachers at the school about her health situation

without her permission. Then I would go on to explain to her that my intentions were not to spread her

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business throughout the school, but get the teachers help on finding a person to fill her position during

her time of medical leave. I would then ask her what could do to fix the situation so that we could

move past it and apologize again for breaking her trust.

3. Develop your personal code of ethics to use in professional situations. Make sure that they align

with the Texas Code of Ethics for Educators. This may be bulleted but must be in complete

sentences.

 I will self-reflect on all of my actions.

 I will give 100% of my efforts to do everything that I do.

 I will not ask anyone to do anything that I would not feel comfortable doing myself.

 I will treat others with dignity and respect at all times and remain professional.

 I will do my best to be transparent with my staff at all times so that trust is built.

4. Would your professional code of ethics differ from your personal code of ethics for your personal

life? If so, in what ways? If not, why?

No, my professional code of ethics will not differ from my personal code of ethics in life. I believe as

though how you are viewed in your personal life can reflect on you professionally as well. Therefore,

you should practice what you preach at work and outside of work so that you never have to worry

about someone seeing you outside of work doing something that may be frowned upon in a

professional setting.

Week 5 Section B: Create a comprehensive system for human talent management (W5LO1, W5LO2.
W5LO3, CLO2, CLO3, and CLO 6)

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In this task, you will demonstrate your ability to develop a comprehensive system of human talent
management on a campus. This will include but is not limited to teacher contracts, ethical considerations,
evaluation, coaching, professional development, support of staff, and documentation. In the space below
type in paragraph form, how you would develop a comprehensive system of human talent management on
your campus. Be sure to include best practice research in order to justify your decision and system
components. You may provide artifacts to help support your writing, such as forms to be used, a timeline,
a flow chart, and/or spreadsheets. Also, consider if the development of this system will be a collaborative
process, who will be involved in helping you create this system, and what is their value added to the
process. Be sure to review the rubric for specific details that must be included to reach maximum points
for this assignment. This assignment is a synthesis of all your learning during this course. Review all your
coursework for this course. You may use any of that information to complete this assignment. Follow the
APA guidelines for citations. Double spacing is not necessary. Paste or type your comprehensive plan in
the space below.

Opening paragraph- Talk about the process of creating this system and why you need a system.

The first step in creating a system is identify the area of needs, then to fill the positions with a candidate
that is suitable for the job. After the candidate is found you need to generate a way to retain those hire
candidates. This is important to come up with these steps because you need a map to lead you in the right
direction of the hiring process. When recruiting talent, you have to be sure to have the job position posted
and advertised making the position appealing desired applicants. Once the candidate is picked you should
have the new hire go thru human resources and sign needed documents about contracts and policies and
procedures. After the candidate is ready to start the principal needs ensure that the new hire is properly
trained to the extent of training needed. That way the new hire feels supported and is likely to stay with
the company.

Paragraph 2: You will be creating a job description and a job posting for this paragraph.
 
 Evaluate and your district's local and legal policies regarding job postings and refer to week 1 to
ensure that local and legal guidelines are met.

 Reflect on your understanding of the importance of following local and legal guidelines in job
descriptions and job postings.

Paragraph 3: Creating a collaborative professional culture to:

 Promote school improvement

 Action Steps- Collaborative School Culture, Modeling, and Fostering Effective Communication

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Paragraph 4: Collaboratively engage staff in professional learning designed to promote cultural

responsiveness, Distributes leadership, and Digital Literacy.

The candidate explains how to and provides specific examples of how to

evaluate professional staff capacity needs and management practices,
identify the leadership capabilities of staff,
plan opportunities for professional growth that promote cultural responsiveness, and digital literacy.
4) plan opportunities for engaging staff in leadership roles, and 5) develop a plan for utilizing digital
technology in ethical and appropriate ways to foster professional learning for self and others. Candidate
uses their skills, knowledge, and capacity to undertake and implement this work within a school setting.
No errors in APA citations, spelling, or grammar & correctly formatted.

Paragraph 5: The candidate explains and provides action steps of how to evaluate, develop, and
implement systems of supervision, support, and evaluation designed to promote school improvement and
student success. The candidate provides a specific plan for how to
observe teaching in a variety of classrooms,
gather and analyze district policies on instructional expectations,
provide teaching staff with actionable feedback to support improvement, and
develop a system for monitoring whether supervision and evaluation strategies promote improvement.
Candidate uses their skills, knowledge, and capacity to undertake and implement this work within a
school setting.

Paragraph 6: Closing. Summary of your system and a reflection of what you learned in course and how it
will impact you as a future leader.
This is especially true when it comes to hiring and managing staff. An effective leader in the context of a
school is the one who effectively implements systems, follows district and state policies, and manages
people in a manner that is consistent and helps them to self-reflect for success.

Place your Synthesis Paper `below

The first step in creating a system is identify the area of needs, then to fill the positions with a candidate
that is suitable for the job. After the candidate is found you need to generate a way to retain those hire
candidates. This is important to come up with these steps because you need a map to lead you in the right
direction of the hiring process. When recruiting talent, you have to be sure to have the job position posted
and advertised making the position appealing desired applicants. Once the candidate is picked you should
have the new hire go thru human resources and sign needed documents about contracts and policies and

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procedures. After the candidate is ready to start the principal needs ensure that the new hire is properly
trained to the extent of training needed. That way the new hire feels supported and is likely to stay with
the company.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Provide students with appropriate learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their
potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth. Enable students to develop
competencies and skills to function successfully in society.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Certification:

 Bachelor’s degree from accredited university

 Valid Texas teaching certificate with required endorsements for subject and level assigned
 Valid ESL certification

Special Knowledge/Skills:

 Knowledge of subjects assigned

 General knowledge of curriculum and instruction
 Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior
 Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:  Maintain emotional control under stress.
Occasional prolonged and/or irregular hours.  Frequent standing, stooping, bending, pulling and pushing.
Move small stacks of textbooks, media equipment, desks, and another classroom equipment.

1st Grade Teacher

JOB STATUS: OPEN
POSTING DATE: 02/01/2021
POSTING NUMBER: 07809754
LOCATION: Super Start Elementary

It is important to following local and legal guideline in job descriptions and job posting because it should
provide a brief overview of what the job is about the duties of the job. It should have listed the skills and
behaviors needed to perform the role applying for effectively.

To create a collaborative professional culture, I would start a weekly newsletter that is for the parents and
staff. By doing this it will highlight the school’s successes, and point to individual teachers’ efforts, and

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give student recognition. I would also address some of the challenges that the school is facing and needs
that the school has. This will allow the community to see what is going on inside the school continuously.
Then also give the opportunity for the community to see both the obstacles and the successes that the
school has and is going through.

I would gather the staff and take a survey to evaluate the professional learning that they have had in the
past. The survey would ask questions about previous professional learning opportunities and if they felt
that they were effective. I would also ask which professional learning they like the most and would
recommend for new staff. I would also give an opportunity for them to tell what they didn’t like and what
the staff felt was a waste of time and really did not learn from it. After asking the staff about previous
professional learning, I would have them write down some professional learning opportunities that they
felt that they needed and could benefit from in all areas.
To create opportunities for the staff to engaging in leadership roles I would begin by making a plan that
would help the school improve. So, for example if math scores were lower than the rest of the subjects, I
would turn to the teachers for suggestions to help bring up math. I would then let the teacher lead in a
project that helps bring up those scores. For instance, if they felt that they should begin a after school
tutoring, I would allow the teacher to start that up with what they felt would best benefit the students.
To set up digital technology for professional learning as principal I would provide the opportunities for
my staff to attend professional learning online. That way the teacher can attend learning opportunities
from the comfort of their own home and be comfortable while doing it.

When evaluating teachers, I would create a walk-through checklist that is generated from the T-Tess
rubric. I would provide the teachers with the rubric and go over it step by step with them. By doing this it
would allow the teachers to know what my expectations are for them when I go into their classrooms
while they are giving instruction. By using the T-Tess rubric to make the walk-through form it will
ensure that teacher is teaching lessons that are student led and promote student engagement. Also, by
using the rubric it will show the teachers what areas of improvement may be needed and will be able to be
a refence for a starting point for teachers to improve.

A system that is based on policies and procedures is the way to start to head towards the road of success
in the school system. This is even more true when view in the hiring and managing your staff department.
When you are an effective leader you are implementing effective systems. But you must also remember
that building relationships with your staff is as important. When you build relationships with you staff
while instilling the expectations your staff naturally want to perform to the expectations for you. It is so
important to have that line of communication open with your staff. But what I have learned most from this
course is you have to have a plan for everything that you do as a principal. And it helped me understand
that documentation is everything! It is golden from showing support, your communication, record
keeping, and professional development opportunities.

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