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Laure Ellenbel Justo
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CREATING A
POSITIVE
SCHOOL
CULTURE
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
01
School 02
School Culture 03
Culture &
* Importance to Shared Norms
Teachers and Students School Climate

04 05
The Role of 06
Culture as a School Culture in Elements of a
Social Construct Learning Positive Culture
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What is
School
Culture?
Refers to the policies,
interpersonal dynamics, attitudes,
customs, and formal and informal
rules of behavior within a school.
Involves administrators, teachers,
staff, parents and students.
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 —School
Culture
● Character of a school that
gives a school qualities
beyond its structures,
resources and practices.
● Beliefs, perceptions,
relationships, attitudes and
written and unwritten rules
that shape and influence
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Importance of School Culture on
School culture greatly affects teachers’:
Teachers (BRANSTETER,
2021.iAspire.com)
• Well-being According to research by
• Teacher retention rates Brandman University, 90%
• Classroom management of teachers hired each year
• Morale are replacing colleagues
• who left
Willingness to attend and participate in voluntarily.
professional development
• Sense of being supported
 Importance of School Culture on Students
School culture impacts students’: (BRANSTETER, 2021.iAspire.com)

• Sense of belonging
• Well-being
• Level of being recognized for their
efforts
• Level of encouragement
School culture has a school
climate that includes
students, families, teachers,
and support staff.
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 SCHOOL CLUTURE and SCHOOL
CLIMATE
School Climate School Culture
● Standard and personality
●The long-term physical and
of the educational setting. social environment, as well as
● the “quality and character of the values or beliefs of the
school life” school shared across
individuals and time.
● the experiences of ● Refers how the school and
individuals in the school, teacher work together and the
including learning and set of values, beliefs, and
assumption they share.
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 Toxic School Culture (Rachael Moshman, Career life)

- Toxic leadership - Principal doesn’t value

- Double standards employees
- Lack of diversity - No praise for your
- Cliques accomplishment
- Discrimination
 Shared Norms: Teacher and Students
Norms
Teacher Norms Students Norms
1. Teach in different ways. 1. Have a growth mindset.
a. Believe you can improve.
b. Fail forward.
c. Keep trying.
d. Speak positively about your
abilities
to learn.
2. Call students by their names. 2. Call classmates by their
names.
3. Care about students'
feelings.
a. Understand their situation
4. Have a good attitude.
a. Stay calm.
b. Use kind words.
c. Have patience.
d. Greet students and say good-
bye.
3. Be responsible for your work.
a. Have materials ready.
b. Advocate for yourself. c. Be a
professional.
d. Meet deadlines.
e. Participate.
f. Be on time to class.
4. Listen...
a. to the teacher.
b. to your classmates.
c. to guests.
d. to the directions.
5. Help students understand.
a. Work at a reasonable pace.
b. Explain clearly.
c. Support different learning
styles.
d. Expect the best.
e. Re-explain if necessary.
6. Attend school the majority of
the time.
5. Attend school the majority of
the time.
6. Be a good team player.
a. Provide good, helpful feedback.
b. Stay calm.
c. Encourage others.
d. Stay on topic.
e. Be considerate.
f. Use proper language.
g. Communicate clearly to
students and
teacher(s).
7. Be respectful.
a. Give everyone what they
need.
b. Use proper language.
c. Allow space if needed.
d. Use supportive words when
explaining.
e. Call by your name.

8. Have a growth mindset.

 ● It is not a genetic
construct.
● It is something that we
Culture as a create and shape.
● A creation of the
Social Construct school head, teachers,
parents, non-teaching
staff students and
community.
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The Role of School Culture in Learning
Improves students’ ability to
learn.
Fosters improvement, collaborative
decision making, professional
development and staff and student
learning.

School culture matters because it can

improve quality of life.
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ELEMENTS OF
A
POSITIVE
CULTURE

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 A positive school climate is characterized by the
following:

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01 Experimentation 03
High expectations
Collegiality ● atmosphere
● Responsibility encourages ●Set high
and authority experimentation and expectations for
are shared by so will welcome high achievement.
everyone. mistakes as part of
the learning process.
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 A positive school climate is characterized by the
following:
05
04 Reaching out to the 06
Trust and knowledge base Tangible Support
confidence
●Teachers care to grow ●school community
● Students, professionally to update gets concrete
teachers, school themselves on content support for the
head, and parents
relationship in the knowledge and good that they do
school are well pedagogy.
built.
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 A positive school climate is characterized by the
following:
08
07 Caring, celebration, 09
Appreciation humor Involvement in
and decision making
●Laughing together,
Recognition showing support and ●Involving others
care gives students a who are concerned
● Words of
appreciation and chance to relax in with decisions to be
recognition make between learning. made enhances
classroom climate sense of ownership.
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 A positive school climate is characterized by the
following:

10 11
Protection of what
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Traditions Honest and open
is important
● Schools consider
communication
●School must have
important must form ●No one gets
an intentional
culture-based part of their tradition ostracized for
program on shared and so must be speaking up his
values, beliefs, and protected by all means.
mind.
behaviors.
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