Unit 2 - Creating a Positive School Culture Flashcards
An obvious goal for school leaders is for schools to develop and maintain what?
strong cultures
Schools with strong cultures will have _____ with exceptional _____ (Jones, 2009).
effective leadership; student performace
To create a new culture of change, school principals and teacher leaders must focus on an overall what?
organizational transformation
Defining the role of the school principal, teacher, and school community through open communication and academic growth activities that can best serve the needs of a particular what?
school community
Scheduling effective _____, such as staff lunchroom visits, and department forums, staff meeting pop-ins, and all-district personnel rallies.
communication mechanisms
Sharing _____ through employee union newsletters, internal correspondence, and community relations that breed further successes for diverse student populations.
successes
Visualizing school-wide and classroom _____ that support the goals of a school, site and district to generate key results and offering staff development training that supports these results.
goals
How many attributes of effective schools with strong cultures did Deal (1985) identify?
eight
Shared values and a consensus on “_____.”
how we get things done around here
The _____ is a hero or heroine who embodies core values.
principal
Distinctive rituals that embody widely shared _____
beliefs
_____ as situational heroes or heroines.
Employees
Rituals of _____ and _____.
acculturation; cultural renewal
Significant rituals to celebrate and transform _____.
core values
Balance between innovation and tradition and between _____ and _____.
autonomy; control
