1. Building a Positive School Culture
Dr. David Franklin

2. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
Peter Drucker

3. The education scale What we focus on … What truly matters … Programs
Curriculum
Assessments
Programs
Culture

5. The Recipe of School culture
Leadership
Instruction
Outreach

8. What educators are saying …
A recent Gallop pole indicated the forty-six percent of teachers say they feel high daily stress. That's on par with nurses and physicians. And roughly half of teachers agree with this statement: "The stress and disappointments involved in teaching at this school aren't really worth it."
A new AFT survey of more than 30,000 U.S. teachers finds that most of them report high levels of stress and low levels of autonomy, but it also shows that they are not ready to bail on the classroom.
Teachers reported that they couldn’t admit to their leadership teams that their stress levels had become unbearable, that they were overworked, overstretched, underpaid, undervalued and ready to snap.

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High
Importance ? X
Low
High
Urgency
Low

10. Finding the Sweet Spot
Purpose
Talent… ….
……..Passion

11. Drive – Daniel Pink
Motivation
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose

12. The Five Ingredients to a Strong, 21st century School culture
End Needless Micro-Managing of Teachers
Be Mindful of Building Improvements
The Student Council Coffee Cart
Give teachers a Voice in Decision-Making
Share Success With The Community

13. 1. End Needless Micro-Managing of Teachers
Teachers need to be focused on one thing: students
End unnecessary compliance tasks, meetings, reports
Use technology to disseminate information
Let teachers meet in alternative spaces
Autonomy and accountability go hand in hand

14. Where would you rather meet?

16. 2. Be Mindful of Building Improvements

19. 2. Feasible Building Improvements
Planter boxes / barrels
Benches
Classroom Paint

24. 3. The Student council coffee cart

28. 4. Give teachers a voice in decision making

30. Teacher-centered Approach
Stop top-down models
Giving local educators a voice brings the responsibility for decisions as close as possible to the school … defining how school staffs can work collaboratively to make these decisions … creating ownership for those responsible for carrying out decisions by involving them directly in the decision-making process an by trusting their abilities and judgments.

32. Share Success With Your Community

33. Information is power
Immediate
Facebook
Twitter
Website
Marquee
Signs

34. Create your own narrative about your school
Create your own narrative about your school. If you don’t, someone else will …

35. Thank you!
Contact Information:
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