Elements of School Culture
The envisioned future: inspiring goals for what the school aims to achieve.
What is vision?
The collective personality of shared experiences, challenges, and successes within an organization.
What is the cultural guardian?
School improvement begins with this.
What is people improvement?
This is how people feel about the quality and character of school life.
What is school climate?
Because of how our students learn, using the strategy of teaching smaller doses of information at a time.
What is chunking content?
It shapes both the school's identity and educational practices.
What is purpose?
Sense of direction for all employees and guidelines for their day-to-day behavior.
What are values?
These employees are forward thinkers and embrace change and improvement.
What are scouts?
The cornerstone of strong relationships between leaders and the team.
What is trust?
The group Mario said lives in fear of change.
Who are shadows?
The overall mood or atmosphere within the school.
What is climate?
They have enormous power to impact the school's culture through informal communication networks.
Who are teachers and staff?
These employees support new teaching strategies and can be easily influenced either way.
What is a sprout?
This system influences culture by appreciating each other.
What is recognition?
What is student performance?
There are three main types of these in every organization.
What are subcultures?
This focuses on teamwork, shared learning, and continuous improvement.
What is collaborative growth culture?
These employees demonstrate strong performance but resist changes that deviate from traditions.
What are sentinels?
Fosters a learning-focused environment where staff feel empowered to explore innovating strategies.
What is professional development?
Who are parents/families?
This subculture identifies strongly with the organization's core values.
What is enhancing subculture?
This type of communication often holds the most power for staff and culture.
These employees struggle with value alignment and remain disconnected and ineffective.
What are shadows?
The degree of control individuals have over their work.
What is autonomy?
Address the behavior, then feed the fish.
What is the "Goldfish Shark"?