Code of Ethics
SERVICE
Educational Office Professionals should exalt their profession on all occasions, and sincerely strive for a finer and more efficient service to the school and community.
Educational Office Professionals should have membership in their local, state, and national professional organizations and should participate in their activities.
INTEGRITY
Educational Office Professionals should be courteous, just, and professional in all their relations with administrators, office personnel, pupils, teachers, and other visitors to the office.
Educational Office Professionals should not disclose any information of a confidential nature and should not do or say anything that would cause them to lose the confidence and respect of others. They should avoid voicing unfavorable criticism of other school employees unless that criticism is formally presented to a school official for the welfare of the school.
Educational Office Professionals should recognize and perform duties of citizenship and should be loyal to the school system, the state, and the nation.
Educational Office Professionals should refrain from the use of pressure on school officials to secure a promotion or to obtain favors for other people.
SKILL
Educational Office Professionals should perform their duties with dispatch and accuracy.
Educational Office Professionals should maintain their own efficiency by study, by travel, and by other means that keep them abreast of the trends in educational and business practices.
Educational Office Professionals should make the office a congenial place for all without allowing it to become a social center.
Educational Office Professionals should practice the qualities that promote good human relations and good public relations cheerfulness, honesty, tact, understanding, patience, and good judgment.
THE SEAL
The book and the quill represent basic skills of reading and writing from which all knowledge and enlightenment, represented by the lamp, originate.
The circles indicate no beginning and no ending. Education was, is, and forever will be.
The mountains around the sphere and the waves at the bottom symbolize the geographical range of the Association.
There are fourteen mountains representing the districts into which the Association is divided.
The light rays (lines) at the bottom that emanate from an invisible point, symbolize unity: one purpose, one vision, one goal.