School culture refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape how a school functions. It encompasses issues like student safety, classroom orderliness, and embracing diversity. A positive school culture is characterized by recognizing individual successes, open trusting relationships, collegial staff, feeling safe, and equitable learning opportunities for all students. The principal greatly impacts school culture through their words, actions, modeling behaviors, and building trust. School culture can be categorized into types like moving, cruising, stuggling, or sinking based on effectiveness and improvement. A school's vision, mission, values, rituals, traditions, and ceremonies are all elements that shape its unique culture. Retelling a school's
School culture refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape how a school functions. It encompasses issues like student safety, classroom orderliness, and embracing diversity. A positive school culture is characterized by recognizing individual successes, open trusting relationships, collegial staff, feeling safe, and equitable learning opportunities for all students. The principal greatly impacts school culture through their words, actions, modeling behaviors, and building trust. School culture can be categorized into types like moving, cruising, stuggling, or sinking based on effectiveness and improvement. A school's vision, mission, values, rituals, traditions, and ceremonies are all elements that shape its unique culture. Retelling a school's
School culture refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape how a school functions. It encompasses issues like student safety, classroom orderliness, and embracing diversity. A positive school culture is characterized by recognizing individual successes, open trusting relationships, collegial staff, feeling safe, and equitable learning opportunities for all students. The principal greatly impacts school culture through their words, actions, modeling behaviors, and building trust. School culture can be categorized into types like moving, cruising, stuggling, or sinking based on effectiveness and improvement. A school's vision, mission, values, rituals, traditions, and ceremonies are all elements that shape its unique culture. Retelling a school's
School culture refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape how a school functions. It encompasses issues like student safety, classroom orderliness, and embracing diversity. A positive school culture is characterized by recognizing individual successes, open trusting relationships, collegial staff, feeling safe, and equitable learning opportunities for all students. The principal greatly impacts school culture through their words, actions, modeling behaviors, and building trust. School culture can be categorized into types like moving, cruising, stuggling, or sinking based on effectiveness and improvement. A school's vision, mission, values, rituals, traditions, and ceremonies are all elements that shape its unique culture. Retelling a school's
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School as a Cultural
Institution Emely Grace A. Reblora Culture is... Kluckhohn and Kelly define it in his sense”, A culture is a historically derived system of explicit and implicit designs for living, which tends to be shared by all or specially designed members of a group.”
"Culture is the acquired knowledge people use to interpret
experience and generate behavior." - James Spradley, Anthropologist. Refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape and influence every aspect of how a school functions, but the term also encompasses more concrete issues such as the physical and emotional safety of students, the orderliness of classrooms and public spaces, or the degree to which a school embraces and celebrates racial, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural diversity.
SchoolCulture Characteristic of Positive School Culture ● The individual successes of teachers and students are recognized and celebrated. ● Relationships and interactions are characterized by openness, trust, respect, and appreciation. ● Staff relationships are collegial, collaborative, and productive, and all staff members are held to high professional standards. ● Students and staff members feel emotionally and physical safe, and the school’s policies and facilities promote student safety. • School leaders, teachers, and staff members model positive, healthy behaviors for students. • Mistakes are not punished as failures, but they are seen as opportunities to learn and grow for both students and educators. • Students are consistently held to high academic expectations, and a majority of students meet or exceed those expectations. • Important leadership decisions are made collaboratively with input from staff members, students, and parents. • Educational resources and learning opportunities are equitably distributed, and all students, including minorities and students with disabilities. • All students have access to the academic support and services they may need to succeed. Importance of School Culture to Teacher ● Well-being ● Teacher retention rates (According to research by Brandman University, 90% of teachers hired each year are replacing colleagues who left voluntarily) ● Classroom management ● Morale ● Sense of fulfillment ● Willingness to attend and participate in professional development ● Sense of being supported Importance of School Culture to Students • Sense of belonging
• Well-being
• Level of being recognized for their efforts
• Level of encouragement Importance of principals on school culture
Verbally through words. The words a principal or other school leader uses greatly impacts the culture of the school. By reinforcing and repeating expected behaviors, values, and beliefs, the school principal is able to focus on building the aspirational school culture.
Nonverbally through actions, stance, and facial expressions (up to 93% of
communication is nonverbal, so pay special attention to your body language and facial expressions!)
Models behaviors, positive or otherwise. Actions speak louder than words. The principal’s actions must match the verbal and nonverbal communication expressed when building a strong culture. Without synergy among the three, the principal will lose one of the key ingredients in building a strong culture: trust. Typology of School Culture Stoll and Fink (1996) created a typology of five types of school culture. The Culture Typology Activity was developed for use by teachers and principals as a method to help schools and school leaders (a) identify the general type of culture present in a school, (b) reflect upon the impact of that type of culture on student success, and (c) stimulate the discussion and the design of strategies to develop and maintain a more collaborative culture. Moving (dynamic and successful determination to keep developing),
Cruising (rather complacent, often with privileged
learners who achieve despite little school dynamism),
Strolling (neither particularly effective or
ineffective, but long term not keeping pace with change),
Struggling (ineffective but trying to address
issues), and finally
Sinking (ineffective and not improving).
School’s Vision Describe a school's loftiest ideals, its core organizational values, its long-term objectives, or what it hopes its students will learn or be capable of doing after graduating. School’s Mission Describe a school's day-to-day operational objectives, its instructional values, or its public commitments to its students and community. School’s Values Highlights your ambitions for the types of students you are raising and shows your school's ethos is consistent with the expectations of the community you serve. School Rituals, Traditions and Ceremonies There are set of rituals, traditions and ceremonies in every school. These make a school unique from other schools.
Acc to Confeld, 2016 " Joining rituals, celebrating traditions
and conducting ceremonies are great oppurtunities to convene as one while integrating the vision, mission values and goals of the school." School Rituals Peterson adn Deal 2009 "Defined school rituals as produces or routines that are infused with deeper significance. School Traditions Are significant events that have special history meaning and occure year in and year out. School Ceremonies Are elaborated as culturally sanctioned events that provide a welcome e spiritual boost. These periodic communal events bind people to each other and shape unwritten cultural values. History and Stories A school's mission, vision, values, ritual, traditions and ceremonies are all elements of the culture that are current and happening in the present. When discussing the history and stories of organization, the past is being presented ( Confeld,2016)
Peterson and Deal (2009) Shared that learning from the past mistakes and successes is vital to creating and maintaining a positive school culture. The retelling of the past can bringg some necessary initiatives into action, revive traditions and rituals that have shriveled away, and assist staff in surrendering previous obsolete memories
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