Rewiring School Culture

Whether your school is prosperous or struggling, urban or rural, this course serves as a definitive guide to making sure that the culture in your school is guided first and foremost by what's best for your students. Upfront, this course will establish the difference in a school’s climate and its culture: “climate is around us . . . while culture is part of us.” In fact, the school culture will never be changed by simply adjusting the environment. Instead, a true school improvement (cultural change) comes when internal change comes to stakeholders within the school climate. This course offers a good blend of information and explanation of what needs to be done with practical ideas that are needed to implement immediate cultural change in a school community. The projected outcome of this course is to provide classroom teachers with the knowledge, understanding, and methodologies needed to transform the school's culture into one that is positive, forward-looking, and works to enrich students' lives.