ELCC Standard Elements:


​ELCC 5.1: Candidates understand and can act with integrity and fairness to ensure a school system of accountability for every student’s academic and social success.


ELCC 5.2: Candidates understand and can model principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior as related to their roles within the school.


ELCC 5.3: Candidates understand and can safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity within the school.


ELCC 5.4: Candidates understand and can evaluate the potential moral and legal consequences of decision making in the school.


ELCC 5.5: Candidates understand and can promote social justice within the school to ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling.

research support for elcc standard 5.0:

Evidence presented in Appendix 2 in support of Standard 5 confirms that a building-level education leader must know how to act with integrity, fairness, and engage in ethical practice. This includes understanding democratic values, equity, and diversity; knowing about current ethical and moral issues facing education, government, and business; and understanding the relationship between social justice, school culture, and student achievement.

The importance of the knowledge presented in evidence supporting Standard 5 was recognized in research on practices that promote social justice identified as important in the ISLLC 2008 Standards. Support for the importance of this knowledge was informed by scholarship on practices of inclusive leadership, and leadership for diversity. Observations by education experts affirm the central role that knowledge of reflective practices has for education leaders if they are to model principles of self-awareness and ethical behavior. A number of theoretical and practice focused commentaries have noted the critical need for education leaders to have knowledge of the moral and legal consequences of decision making.