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Create a response to each thread of at least 400 words, and support your assertions with a minimum of 2 citations in current APA format.

Thread #4:

Models of ethical decision-making lay the ground work for successful leadership in the face of ever-increasing complexities in higher education.

There are models that share such elements as the process of defining the issues, making decisions by reviewing alternatives based on intuitive evaluation or on ethical rules and principles, and deciding whether to carry out the action and then implementing it using the best deliberative judgment.

As an administrator, what steps do/would you take for framing your decision-making in today's educational environment? Describe some of the more complex issues administrators are required to address that may elicit only negative decisions.

Thread #5:

An education administrator wears many hats while navigating institutional bureaucracy. He or she is called upon to take care of any issue that may arise that teachers either cannot, or should not, handle. Administrators have the task of establishing routines for school emergencies.

Additionally, education administrators set a precedent for the overall atmosphere the school. Usually, the attitude of the leader will become the attitude of most of the staff. To accomplish all of these roles, the administrator must first and foremost have a vision about how education ought to look in his or her school. What actions would you take to convey to your staff, faculty, and the community at large that you have a vision for your institution that requires significant organizational change?

Thread #6:

At the organizational level, staff development is usually integrated with the institution's overall human resource strategy and is normally considered to include institutional policies, programs, and procedures.

However, at the individual level, staff development is concerned with the acquisition of new skills, processes, or consciousness that results in an enhanced intuitional perspective regarding the delivery of the university's mission and strategic plan. Discuss your university's approach to individual staff development in terms of various modes (fragmented, formalized, or focused).

Thread #7:

Accreditation is a voluntary process of self-regulation and peer review, adopted by the educational community. Institutions of higher education have voluntarily entered into associations to evaluate each other in accordance with an institution's stated goals.

Non-accredited institutions must be able to demonstrate that they possess certain "characteristics of quality" before they are allowed to become members of the association of accredited institutions. Discuss the importance of accreditation from the institutional, faculty, and student perspectives.