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I want to argue that moral educational leadership requires the pursuit of moral decency on the part of educational leaders. I take moral decency to be a secular notion, capturing a balance between pursuing self-interest and the claims of others with whom one has community. Leading in schools, I’d argue, requires leaders there to understand what is in their own self–interest, and what the claims of those whom they must lead amount to. Structuring schools so that all participants in them can gain self-respect is crucial to realizing this kind of decency. An ethic of care can accomplish this eventuality. But universal agreement about how to behave in schools is hardly likely. Leaders must think through an ethic of coordination to deal with the ineradicable disagreements endemic to schools such that the self-respect of each participant is preserved. In the end perhaps the best that can be achieved in leading a school is a kind of overlapping consensus.

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