Teachers actively strive to understand the diverse cultural backgrounds of students by gaining knowledge, personal awareness, and developing sensitivity and skills pertinent to working with a diverse student population. Teachers respect the confidences of colleagues and parents that are shared in the course of their professional relationships. Teachers consult, associate, and collaborate with colleagues and other professionals in the community in order to protect students from conditions harmful to learning or to health and safety. Teachers recognize that professional problems and conflicts often interfere with professional effectiveness. While recognizing the right to respectfully disagree, teachers should take steps to insure that these conflicts do not produce deleterious results for students, colleagues and employees.
Teachers cooperate with colleagues and respect one another as professional educators.
Every teacher is respected for the unique contributions he or she makes to the school. Teachers assume responsibility for self-improvement and professional growth. They attain professional goals in an ethical manner. Teachers do not file or encourage the filing of ethics or other complaints that they know, or reasonably should know, are frivolous.