Shaping a Collaborative School Culture
Every school has a culture, that history and underlying set of unwritten expectations that shape everything about the school. A school culture influences the ways people think, feel, and act. Being able to understand and shape the culture is key to a school’s success in promoting staff and student learning.
When a school has a positive, professional culture, one finds meaningful staff development, successful curricular reform, and the effective use of student performance data. In these cultures, staff and student learning thrive. In contrast, a school with a negative or toxic culture that does not value professional learning, resists change, or devalues staff development hinders success. School culture will have either a positive or a detrimental impact on the quality and success of staff development.
It takes a lot of people to effectively operate a school, and developing a school culture reflective of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) requires that everyone examine their role and how they do things day in and day out.
Every school has a culture, that history and underlying set of unwritten expectations that shape everything about the school. A school culture influences the ways people think, feel, and act. Being able to understand and shape the culture is key to a school’s success in promoting staff and student learning.
When a school has a positive, professional culture, one finds meaningful staff development, successful curricular reform, and the effective use of student performance data. In these cultures, staff and student learning thrive. In contrast, a school with a negative or toxic culture that does not value professional learning, resists change, or devalues staff development hinders success. School culture will have either a positive or a detrimental impact on the quality and success of staff development.
It takes a lot of people to effectively operate a school, and developing a school culture reflective of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) requires that everyone examine their role and how they do things day in and day out.
Professional Learning Community Package
Australian school leadership teams can access the School Leadership Package to implement positive change within their school teams and communities.
Over the past few years six of MONED's training packages have had a powerful impact on school and collegial development.
Over the past few years six of MONED's training packages have had a powerful impact on school and collegial development.
Six programs for $350 - save $425
The Professional Learning Community Package includes the following comprehensive training programs:
- Make Your School Remarkable
- Collegial School Teams
- Better Australian Schools Program
- Grumpy School First Aid Kit
- Women who Lead School Office Teams
- School Public Relations Kit
Focus Questions
- What is school culture, and how does it affect leading, teaching, and learning?
- How can culture re-boot succeed in improving school performance when school reform has not?
- In what visible and implicit ways does a school’s culture express itself to teachers, administrators, students, and parents?
- Which aspects of school culture support hard work and high achievement?
- In what ways is change organizational learning?
- What are the characteristics of organizations that can learn?
- Which conceptual models can help educators make sense of, plan for, and facilitate change?
The six school and collegial development programs combine to give every school a wealth of training and development resources to create a professional dialogue amongst staff to move your school forward in many important development areas.
- Make Your School Remarkable - Remarkable
- Collegial School Teams
- Better Australian Schools Program - Learn more here
- Grumpy School First Aid Kit - Learn more here
- Women who Lead School Office Teams
- School Public Relations Kit
Order your Professional Learning Community Package
Copy and paste the information below in an email to [email protected]
NSW public schools should send their order to EDConnect and quote vendor supplier number 100387105
Contact person
School
Postal address
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Please supply theProfessional Learning Community Package on USB memory stick @ $350. No GST payable.
MONED
Michael Auden
ABN 39 929 256 117
NSW Vendor ID 100837105
PO Box 288 Rye. Vic 3941
Email info@moned.net
Copy and paste the information below in an email to [email protected]
NSW public schools should send their order to EDConnect and quote vendor supplier number 100387105
Contact person
School
Postal address
Postcode
Contact email
Please supply theProfessional Learning Community Package on USB memory stick @ $350. No GST payable.
MONED
Michael Auden
ABN 39 929 256 117
NSW Vendor ID 100837105
PO Box 288 Rye. Vic 3941
Email info@moned.net
