1. Building a Positive School Culture: The Five Commitments
Presented by Chris Matheson of
The Nile Project

2. Goals for Today Leave Better Have Fun Think React Evaluate 11/18/2018
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3. The Four Components of a Culture of Achievement
I. Respect
II. Relationships
III. Responsibility
IV. Results
Achievement
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4. School Culture: An Introduction
What is school/organizational culture?
Do we currently have one?
Does it matter?
When are we finished with building it?
“The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.” 

5. The Benefits of a Positive Culture
Student retention and growth
Staff retention and growth
Decreased negative behavior
Increased citizenship
Increased ownership
Increased academic performance
Work becomes much more fun!
“If you have been trying to make changes in how your organization works, you need to discover how the existing culture aids or hinders you.”

6. Student Growth

7. Student Retention

8. Student Achievement Data

9. Student Achievement Data

10. Commit to Model the Way Infuencing or being influenced?
9th grade at IAF
Walk it daily
Beware of little eyes
A VP from HP
Leadership
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”---Gandhi

11. Commit to Choose a Positive Attitude
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”---Winston Churchill

12. Commit to Choose a Positive Attitude

13. Commit to Choose a Positive Attitude

14. Commit to the Pursuit of Excellence
Be a lifelong learner
This will build your brand equity
Listen, learn, and share
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”---Napoleon Hill

15. Commit to the Success of Your Students
Don’t deflect with demographics
Use failure as a learning opportunity
Utilize the correct pronoun
Act as if it were impossible to fail
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”---Joyce Brothers

16. Commit to the Success of Your Students

17. Who is dreaming for our youth?
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”
---James Allen

18. Thank you!
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. ---Pearl S. Buck