Standard Three: Cultural Leadership
School executives will understand and act on the understanding of the important role a school’s culture plays in contributing to the exemplary performance of the school. School executives must support and value the traditions, artifacts, symbols and positive values and norms of the school and community that result in a sense of identity and pride upon which to build a positive future. A school executive must be able to “re-culture” the school if needed to align with school’s goals of improving student and adult learning and to infuse the work of the adults and students with passion, meaning and purpose. Cultural leadership implies understanding the school and the people in it each day, how they came to their current state, and how to connect with their traditions in order to move them forward to support the school’s efforts to achieve individual and collective goals.
School executives will understand and act on the understanding of the important role a school’s culture plays in contributing to the exemplary performance of the school. School executives must support and value the traditions, artifacts, symbols and positive values and norms of the school and community that result in a sense of identity and pride upon which to build a positive future. A school executive must be able to “re-culture” the school if needed to align with school’s goals of improving student and adult learning and to infuse the work of the adults and students with passion, meaning and purpose. Cultural leadership implies understanding the school and the people in it each day, how they came to their current state, and how to connect with their traditions in order to move them forward to support the school’s efforts to achieve individual and collective goals.
3A: Focus on a Collaborative Work Environment
The school executive understands and acts on the understanding of the positive role that a collaborative environment can play in the school’s culture.
The school executive understands and acts on the understanding of the positive role that a collaborative environment can play in the school’s culture.
As the Writing Department Chair, I create a weekly agenda in order to facilitate the collaboration of teachers within the writing department.
3B: School Culture and Identity
The school executive acknowledges failures and celebrates accomplishments of the school in order to identify, culture, and performance of the school.
This document captures the agenda that I created for the first elementary school staff meeting. During this meeting, our two ends in mind were to get teachers excited and invested in the Henderson Collegiate culture, mission, and values, as well as, discuss our vision and goals for the Kindergarten curriculum.
3C: Acknowledges Failures; Celebrates Accomplishments and Rewards
The school executive acknowledges failures and celebrates accomplishments of the school in order to identify, culture, and performance of the school.
The school executive acknowledges failures and celebrates accomplishments of the school in order to identify, culture, and performance of the school.
Within the weekly communication that I send to the 4th grade team, I frequently use this as an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of the team throughout the week and recognize teachers for their contributions to the team.