School Culture and Climate

Instructions:

 

 

Students will write and submit a 1500 words essay that:

(a) identifies and explains at least 2 strategies that school leaders may use to assess school climate and school culture, plus

(b) identifies and explains at least 3 strategies that school leaders may utilize to enhance school culture at their school.

Chapter 4 Organizational Influences on Leadership in R.L. Green’s textbook 

Green, R. Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-Based Approach to Implementing the ISLLC Standards, 5th Ed. Pearson, 2018

 

Citations must come from the articles and greens book

 

Articles:

1.Sense and Nonsense about Culture and Climate, Professor Edgar H. Schein

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37594114_Sense_and_nonsense_about_culture_and_climate

 

2.Coming to a New Awareness of Organizational Culture, Edgar H. Schein

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/coming-to-a-new-awareness-of-organizational-culture/

 

3.Schein’s Three Levels of Culture, Edgar H. Schein

http://drvidyahattangadi.com/edgar-scheins-three-levels-organizational-culture/

 

4. Principals as Leaders in a Culture of Change, Michael Fullan , Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Educational Leadership, May 2002

http://michaelfullan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/13396053050.pdf

 

5. The School Leaders Tool for Assessing and Improving School Culture, Christopher R. Wagner PL December 2006, pp. 41-44

http://www.mssaa.org/gen/mssaa_generated_bin/documents/basic_module/School_culture_triage.pdf

 

6. School Climate and School Culture, They Are Not the Same Thing, Steve Gruenert, Principal, March/April 2008, pp. 56-59

https://www.naesp.org/sites/default/files/resources/2/Principal/2008/M-Ap56.pdf

 

7. What is School Climate? Alexandra Loukas, Leadership compass, volume 5, No. 1. Fall 2007 https://www.naesp.org/resources/2/Leadership_Compass/2007/LC2007v5n1a4.pdf

 

8. Developing and Assessing School Culture: A New Level of Accountability for Schools, Character Education Partnership http://www.character.org/uploads/PDFs/White_Papers/DevelopingandAssessingSchoolCulture.pdf

 9. The Challenge of Assessing School Climate, Jonathan Cohen, Terry Pickeral, and Molly McCloskey http://www.ascd.org/publications/educationalleadership/dec08/vol66/num04/The-Challenge-of-Assessing-School-Climate.aspx