158.1413 Essential workplace ethics instruction program -- Required
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characteristics -- Required biennial collaboration -- Symbol of attainment of
essential workplace ethics indicators -- Biennial reporting on program.
(1)Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school district shall implement
essential workplace ethics programs that promote characteristics that are critical to
success in the workplace. Each student in elementary, middle, and high school shall
receive essential workplace ethics instruction that shall include but not be limited
to:
(a)Adaptability, including an openness to learning and problem solving, an
ability to embrace new ways of doing things, and a capability for critical
thinking;
(b)Diligence, including seeing a task through to completion;
(c)Initiative, including taking appropriate action when needed without waiting
for direct instruction;
(d)Knowledge, including exhibiting an understanding of work-related
information, the ability to apply that understanding to a job, and effectively
explain the concepts to colleagues in reading, writing, mathematics, science,
and technology as required by the job;
(e)Reliability, including showing up on time, wearing appropriate attire, self-
control, motivation, and ethical behavior;
(f)Remaining drug-free; and
(g)Working well with others, including effective communication skills, respect
for different points of view and diversity of coworkers, the ability to cooperate
and collaborate, enthusiasm, and the ability to provide appropriate leadership
to or support for colleagues.
(a)A school district shall use the essential workplace ethics characteristics listed
in subsection
(1)of this section when creating a program or when choosing an
existing program.
(b)Each school district's local workforce investment board, in conjunction with
local economic development organizations from its state regional sector, and
other economic, workforce, or industry organizations the workforce
investment board deems necessary, shall recommend to the school district best
practices which may be used by schools to implement an essential workplace
ethics program.
(3)By January 1, 2019, and every two
(2)years thereafter, each local school board shall
collaborate with the local workforce investment board, in conjunction with local
economic development organizations from its state regional sector, and other
economic, workforce, or industry organizations the workforce investment board
deems necessary, to establish essential workplace ethics indicators for middle and
high school students that are aligned with the essential workplace ethics
characteristics listed in subsection
(1)of this section.
(4)Each local school board shall design and adopt a diploma seal, certificate, card, or
other identifiable symbol to award students deemed as having minimally
demonstrated attainment of the local board's essential workplace ethics indicators.
(5)By September 1, 2019, and every two
(2)years thereafter, the superintendent of
each school district shall provide to the commissioner of education and the
Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board a report, in a format specified by the
commissioner, describing the school district's essential workplace ethics programs
and how they are being implemented at each school. A summary report compiled by
the commissioner that includes information from all local school district reports
shall be provided to the Kentucky Board of Education, the Interim Joint Committee
on Education, the Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board and each Kentucky
superintendent and principal in order to foster program improvement and the
sharing of best practices.