This interactive workshop will focus on the controversial premise that all K-12 employees who interact with students are susceptible to the slippery slope of decision-making that may lead to incremental boundary violations.   Individual decision-making, situational variables, and systemic contributors will be framed through multiple lenses in a provocative and compelling manner.  Through case studies, research, actual scenarios, video clips, engaging models of understanding, and lively discussion, the complexity of competing tensions inherent within the profession will be examined.  Workshop topics will also include educatorsexual misconduct with students, the eroticization of students through contemporary media, false allegations made against district employees, and the trajectory of ethical decision-making as it applies to the fast-paced challenge of everyday K-12 education. 

Outcomes:

As educational leaders, workshop participants will be challenged to

• examine their roles in fostering a stronger, healthier environment for student safety and welfare;

• promote appropriate decision-making among district employees;  

• enhance our profession’s ability to bear public scrutiny; and inspire the public’s confidence.