Most school improvement efforts focus on academic goals, instructional models, curriculum, and assessments. Sometimes what can make or break your learning community are the intangibles, the relationships, identity, and connections that make up its culture. This book explains how to build and maintain a culture of achievement in any kind of school environment. Discover why culture that is deliberately developed and managed can optimize its impact on mission, vision, and purpose. And learn how to build school culture through a systematic implementation of procedures that include: ways to make students and other stakeholders feel welcome, comfortable, important, and understood; tools for teaching students to become the moral and ethical citizens you expect them to be;a set of purposeful language, actions, and routines that build the culture of achievement; strategies for pushing students to go beyond the minimum needed to get by, to discover what they are capable of achieving; and ideas ideas for creating and holding everyone accountable for being the best they can be and for being committed to continuous improvement.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.