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ESHA’s quality cards series HEADstart aims to help school heads with useful professional tips on how to develop and become better leaders of their teams.

This Headstart Providing a Code of Conduct provides suggestions for the following practical questions:

  • How can we build a safe space as a team?
  • How do we have the right conversation with
    each other?

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How to use this Best Practice

The headstart addresses the questions of why it is important to provide a code of conduct, what it means to have a CoC for everyone, what is needed to develop a CoC and 3 steps to be taken to develop one:

Step 1: Explain to your staff what a code of conduct is and why it is important

Step 2: Invite your staff members to formulate their preferred rules

Step 3: Reflect at the end of the meeting on how it went.

Learning Outcomes

Leadership LO F: Through communities of practice, build capacity as Sustainability Citizenship educators and leaders.