Code of Conduct

When you join a GEG as a leader or a member, you are joining a community. And like any growing community, a few agreements about your expected behavior are good for everyone. It's important that everyone in your community sees this code of conduct. Feel free to post it to your community groups and pages.

We expect all GEG leaders and participants to respect these basic principles:

• Be respectful.

At times GEGs may be composed of very different types of educators ranging from public to private school educators, to educators from pre-schools to high schools and universities, everything that can be discussed and talk about. Remember to be respectful and constructive when communicating with fellow GEG's.

• With Integrity

We are all educators and we mold the future of our country. Everyone is called to practice to be honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.

• Participate and be collaborative.

This is your community, so work together to make it useful. Join in the discussions, share knowledge, show up for in-person meetings regularly, offer feedback, and help each other out! We can learn a lot from each other.

• Step down considerately.

If you're a leader or have some form of responsibility in running a GEG group, and your circumstances will impact your ability to organize your group, find a way to step down gracefully. Make sure someone can take over for you, and transfer the relevant information (contacts, passwords, etc.) for a smooth transition.

Please observe some ethical behaviour for online discussions:

• Think before you send. Does this message need to go to hundreds of people around the world?

• Keep off topic conversations to a minimum.

• Do not send spam. Do not advertise or promote personal projects through GEG communities or activities.

If a member of a GEG community routinely violates this code of conduct, the GEG leader may ask that person to leave the community. This code of conduct applies to GEG activities and will be enforced by the community itself. It is not a part of Google's general Terms of Service. Content that violates the User Content and Conduct Policies will be removed if flagged.