Veteran administrators share their best ideas for
shaping school culture using a wide variety of strategies.
See
Shaping School Culture by Deal and Peterson, 2016 and the
Shaping School Culture Fieldbook by Peterson and Deal, 2009 for more examples of ways to shape the culture.
Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership A brief summary of this book, says authors Terrence E. Deal and Kent D. Peterson, shows how school leaders can use the power of school culture to create a vibrant, cooperative spirit and a school «persona.»
Shaping School Culture Fieldbook By Terrence E. Deal and Kent D. Peterson (Jossey - Bass), this book provides solid methods, questions to contemplate, and group activities for a school's staff to use in assessing and changing its culture.
That culture is also composed of «traditions and ceremonies schools hold to build community and reinforce their values,» says Peterson, a professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and co-author of
Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership.
Beth Corwin (PE), John Bass (Art), Peter Siegel (Music), and Brenda Haenchen (Media), and Richard Cate (Principal) meet weekly to discuss the implementation of programming that fosters and
shapes our school culture.
In this course, participants will learn how to engage and empower others in solving their school's most challenging problems, craft and communicate a strong vision, actively
shape their school culture to support their most important work, and to lead a diverse school community that supports all students in reaching their potential.
Participants shared challenges they had around school culture and listened to insight from various community arts group on the ways in which art may positively
shape school culture and curriculum.
These actions can create the conditions needed to
shape a school culture where teaching and learning can improve.
This event is part of the annual Facing History Los Angeles Summit on School Culture, where hundreds of Facing History students, educators, and administrators from over 20 middle and high schools across Los Angeles come together to help
shape school culture rooted in empathy and respect.
Not exact matches
«Of all the factors that lead to corporate crime, none comes close in importance to the role top management plays in tolerating, even
shaping, a
culture that allows for it,» says William Laufer, the director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton
School.
George M. Marsden teaches in the Divinity
School at Duke University and is the author of Fundamentalism and American
Culture: The
Shaping of Twentieth - Century Evangelism, 1870 - 1925.
In brief, the pathfinder
schools» experience and time on the journey underscores the imperative of
shaping a mode of
schooling, a desired totality, an ecosystem, a
culture that both facilitates and continually supports the successful and evolving mode of digital normalisation.
Managing and inspiring others, making well - informed decisions and
shaping culture is part and parcel of
school leadership.
Her side of the
school, the traditional Northbrook side, adopted the SLANT program used by YES Prep to
shape classroom
culture.
And, as we all know,
school culture is ultimately
shaped by educators.
Beyond test scores is lingering misinformation about intelligence, according to Nisbett, author of the book, Intelligence and How to Get It, who addressed how
schools and
culture do
shape intellectual development.
In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in
shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent
culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to
school.
Project Zero's 13 - week online, coach - facilitated course offerings — among them Creating
Cultures of Thinking: Learning to Leverage the Eight Forces that
Shape the
Culture of Groups, Classrooms, and
Schools; Multiple Intelligences: Expanding Our Perspectives to Support All Learners; Thinking and Learning in the Maker - Centered Classroom — are grounded in day - to - day teaching and leadership practice.
For this reason, among many other examples of the influence of policy on
school culture, I have switched my focus to the power of education in
shaping communities»
cultures and values.
The principal of any
school has a fundamental role in
shaping the
culture of the
school.
they want to play more - prominent roles in
shaping the curricula, instruction, and
school cultures in which their children will be immersed for nearly all of their youth.
What is the
culture of your
school — does it
shape and grown the future - ready kids?
Using your
school vision, ambitions,
culture and development plan as a starting point, the RM Flex team can help you
shape a plan with expert understanding and insight from the main platform providers: Apple, Google & Microsoft.
OECD clearly shows the importance of cooperation between teachers: «these activities
shape the learning environment on the
school level, i.e. the
school climate, ethos and
culture, and thus directly and indirectly (via classroom - level processes) affect student learning».
This will require an effort for which the
schooling we have received in recent decades almost unfits us, to rediscover and give new life and conviction to those elements of history and
culture, the virtues, achievements, and consolations, that have at all times
shaped and sustained civilization.
This is a book to be read and absorbed by any
school leader desiring to
shape strong, positive
cultures.»
This workshop is for Deans,
school leaders, and other key personnel who
shape and build
school cultures.
State Representative Sonya Harper (D) of the Sixth District championed both resolutions, explaining, «In speaking with my colleagues from around the state, it is clear that while our students experience trauma differently, their lives outside of
school directly influence their behaviors and thus
shape a
school's climate and
culture, for better or worse.
As I've discovered in leading a diverse high
school, mentoring teachers to be leaders of their own professional practice — what I call inside - out leadership — is the way to
shape a positive
school culture and increase learning.
Agora Cyber Charter
School's nine core values, which shape and define the school's climate and culture, are empowerment, innovation, respect, compassion, integrity, personalization, teamwork, courage, and responsib
School's nine core values, which
shape and define the
school's climate and culture, are empowerment, innovation, respect, compassion, integrity, personalization, teamwork, courage, and responsib
school's climate and
culture, are empowerment, innovation, respect, compassion, integrity, personalization, teamwork, courage, and responsibility.
He conducts workshops, both nationally and internationally, on the newcomer to the principalship, instructional leadership, ethical leadership, characteristics of great teachers,
shaping collaborative
school cultures, educational trends related to supervision, and the leadership of Abraham Lincoln.
One striking feature shared by all of these
schools is the
culture of equity and high achievement that
shapes the way staff members go about their work.
In the three years Stein led Manual, the
school's scores improved and the
school culture was beginning to take
shape.
Research tells us that when teacher leaders deliberately work to invest in, influence, and inspire their peers, they significantly
shape the
culture of their
schools.
Thes best administrators know that a positive
school culture is based upon the overall satisfaction and safety of the students, staff, and community members — and they also know that if they don't intentionally lead the
shaping of the
school culture, others will!
While she agrees that standards can help
shape better teaching for all students, she warns that without careful attention to professional development and the impact of a
school's «
culture» on change efforts, standards could further penalize students who are already overlooked and underserved.
The
school culture and behavior supports are infused with social - emotional learning and address individual needs of students as
shaped by their lives beyond the classroom.
21st Century CEO Kevin Teasley says that this model can only take
shape if administrators are willing to change
school culture.
Facilitating a series of one - to - one or small group discussions, how members of a particular sub-group of students (the disengaged, high - achievers, young women, young men, or students not from the majority
culture in the surrounding community, for example) are feeling about their learning experiences; or
shaping a new initiative in the classroom or
school.
School leadership, from formal and informal sources, helps to shape school conditions (including, for example, goals, culture, and structures) and classroom conditions (including the content of instruction, the size of classrooms, and the pedagogy used by teac
School leadership, from formal and informal sources, helps to
shape school conditions (including, for example, goals, culture, and structures) and classroom conditions (including the content of instruction, the size of classrooms, and the pedagogy used by teac
school conditions (including, for example, goals,
culture, and structures) and classroom conditions (including the content of instruction, the size of classrooms, and the pedagogy used by teachers).
At Berkeley High
School in California, teacher leaders shape the path toward a more equitable school cu
School in California, teacher leaders
shape the path toward a more equitable
school cu
school culture.
Branding allows people within a
school to positively
shape the way the community thinks about itself; this in turn makes it easier to maintain a healthy
culture.
He moved to New York in 1978 to attend the
School of Visual Arts, where he befriended Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat, whose art was also
shaped by TV imagery, Pop Art and street
culture.
Conceived in dialogue with the exhibition The Shadows Took
Shape, this panel discussion will be moderated by Nettrice Gaskins, Ph.D. candidate and researcher at Georgia Tech's Experimental Games Lab (EGL)(part of the Digital Media program at the
School of Literature, Communication and
Culture), and feature artists Coco Fusco, Jacolby Satterwhite and Saya Woolfalk, whose works are included in the two exhibitions currently on view at the Studio Museum, The Shadows Took
Shape and Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.
His insights into the destructive impacts these forces can have on peoples» lives, families and
cultures were
shaped by his experience with the Canadian Indian Residential
School system.
This 5 - week foundational course explores the theories, research, and key dimensions of social - emotional learning (SEL), and
school culture and climate, and the role they play in
shaping children's emotional development, academic success, and future life and career choices.
But these 10 practices, especially taken together, can help to
shape a
school and peer - group
culture that maximizes the motivation to learn and achieve, even in students who might not bring such dispositions to the classroom.