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What is school culture?

Two types of school culture?

Transforming School Culture

Kim Winden - LAI 567

Technical Change...

~ Changes to tools/mechanisms professionals use to do their jobs effectively

~ Changes in structure, policies, or teaching tools

ex: period vs. block schedule, revising curriculum, offering different classes

What kinds of change have you been a part of? Did they have any impact? What kind?

In what ways do you think the varied and diverse human elements brought by stakeholders (students, parents, educators, other staff) impact schools?

"The set of norms, values and beliefs, rituals and ceremonies, symbols and stories that make up the 'persona' of the school" (Cromwell, 2002, p. 4)

Two types of change

Cultural Change...

~ Can not be gained through force or coercion

~ Takes knowledge of where school has been and agreement about where school should go

~ Must precede technical change

Positive School Culture vs. Toxic School Culture

~ Teacher relations are conflictual

~ Staff doesn't believe in ability of students to succeed

~ Negative attitude

~ Educators believe that student success is based on student's level of

concern, attentiveness, prior knowledge, and willingness to comply

~ Educators create policies and procedures and adopt practices that

support their belief in the impossibility of universal achievement

~ A set of norms that supports...

- professional development of teachers

- responsibility for student learning

- a positive, caring atmosphere

~ A place where...

- educators believe in the ability of all students to succeed

- educators create policies and procedures and adopt practices

that support that belief

"All children can learn, and all children will learn because of what we do"

What kind of atmosphere have you worked in?...been a student in?...How did it affect your teaching?...your attitude?...your learning?...your student's learning?...Anything else?

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