Social Management
Social Management:
The ability to establish healthy, diverse relationships through effective communication, collaboration, and consideration; to make wise choices about social interactions based on core ethical and moral values; to translate social decision into effective behavior; and to actively participate in global citizenship and stewardship.
INDICATORS
1. Demonstrate the ability to develop and maintain positive, healthy, diverse relationships, including the ability to:
- Communicate effectively.
- Collaborate and lead effectively.
- Demonstrate positive consideration of and interactions with diverse populations.
- Maintain positive relationships through prosocial behaviors (eg. kindness, compassion, gratitude, selflessness, service, etc.)
- Prevent, manage, and resolve interpersonal conflicts in constructive ways.
- Feel and demonstrate empathy.
- Uphold personal social boundaries.
- Give and receive compliments and constructive criticism in a genuine manner.
- Demonstrate good sportsmanship, such as graciousness in winning and losing and in being a good spectator.
- Negotiate fairly.
2. Demonstrate the ability to make social decisions based on core ethical and performance values, including:
- Magnanimity/Generosity
- Justice/Fairness
- Self-Control/Temperance
- Prudence
- Courage
- Persistence
- Wisdom
- Magnificence/Nobility
- Liberty
- Love/Care
- Hope
- Humility
- Respect
- Mercy/Forgiveness
- Loyalty
- Integrity/Honesty
- Responsibility
- Gratitude
- Curiosity
- Creativity
- Transcendence/Spirituality
- Citizenship/Teamwork1
Ethical vs. Performance Values:
Ethical Character: honesty, caring, respect, etc.--or how people interact ethically
Performance Character: perseverance, creativity, responsibility, etc.--or how people accomplish their personal goals.2
3. Demonstrate the ability to translate social decision into effective behavior, including:
- Positively responding to the ethical, affective, or social-justice dimensions of a situation.
- Making social adjustments in real-time based on perceiving how a situation is unfolding
- The desire to positively affect the social situation/environment/life of others.
- Noticing social needs on a personal and expanded basis and creating and carrying through solutions to those needs.
- Eliminating social barriers.
- Using a variety of social media constructively.
4. Demonstrate the ability to actively participate in global citizenship and stewardship, including:
- Demonstrating an understanding of and participation in global stewardship.
- Participating in local, national, and global citizenship
- Identifying responsibilities of citizenship (i.e. obeying laws, serving on juries, being informed about issues, being involved in influencing public policy, etc.).
- Explaining how one’s decisions and behaviors affect the well being of one’s peers, family, school, and community.
- Describing how various organizations contribute to the well-being of a community.
1 Brown, Phillip M. and Wangaard, David B. (2017). Identifying Core Ethical Values to Build Your School of Character. Retrieved from
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2 Brown, Phillip M. and Wangaard, David B. (2017). Identifying Core Ethical Values to Build Your School of Character. Retrieved from