What school districts expect of teachers.

What do we expect of teachers these days? The wish lists fill pages in the employee handbooks that supplanted bargaining agreements as codes of teacher conduct.

In the documents, 100 of which were reviewed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, lofty goals sit next to humble expectations:

Encourage students’ hopes and dreams — and pull playground duty. Continuously study the art of pedagogy — and patrol for litter. Mold students into pillars of good character

— and close that door to keep heating costs down. Accept less in take-home pay — but check with us before you take a second job. The following, from the Clinton Community School District, is a fairly representative menu of what’s asked of staff members:

Model the traits of excellence. Maintain a continuous focus on rigor, relevance, respect and civility.

Establish appropriate, caring relationships with students. Collaborate with one another, students and parents, making data-driven decisions.

Embrace change. Help families, community and each other adapt to changes.

Teach community. Use and modeling appropriate uses of technologies (media).

Treat time as a variable and as an abundant resource. Encourage students’ dreams and aspirations. Treat failure as a step in a process, not an end.