Building an Intentional School Culture Excellence in Academics and Character [Paperback]

This resource provides tools, case studies, strategies, and implementation plans to help educators create an intentional school culture that fosters excellence, builds character, and improves academic achievement.This resource provides tools, case studies, strategies, and implementation plans to help educators create an intentional school culture that fosters excellence, builds character, and improves academic achievement. Many school leaders realize that a school's culture impacts everything, including the quality of relationships, staff morale, and student achievement, and most would like to know how to go about changing their school's culture in deep and lasting ways. The authors offer a powerful set of strategies for getting staff to think and work together to make their school the very best it can be. They have packed a wealth of practical wisdom into this small volume. Theoretically engaging, yet with clear and tested practical strategies for creating a positive school culture. The authors?bring a wealth of wisdom and practical experience to a fundamental and complex challenge for schools, namely, how to understand and shepherd a positive school culture. They offer impressive creativity and true practical tools and guidance in a concise form that can be invaluable to educators. It is clear that a schools culture has an enormous impact on how well students learn and on the values they develop. This book will help principals and staff shape the kind of school culture that students deserve. Charles Elbot and David Fulton get it! They get how dominant a force a schools culture is in assistingor thwartingthe development of learning and character. They get how extraordinarily difficult it is to change a culture. But, unlike most of us, they also get how possible it is to build a desirable school culture. I see this tidy little volume as the authors' first step ilÓe