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January 28, 2015
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Book Excerpt—What Type of School Culture Do You Want?

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      How does the leadership in your school measure up? Find out by taking the School Culture and Collaborative Leadership Survey.
      Have you ever wanted a school culture where everyone feels welcomed and teachers are eager and excited about their lessons? In the book School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It, education experts Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker assert there’s no one-size-fits-all recipe for ensuring a positive school culture, but there are specific tools school leaders can use to improve their school’s culture and help teachers develop better attitudes, outlooks, and behaviors.
      Before implementing strategies to change a school’s culture, it’s important for school leaders to understand the different types of cultures and the interactions among students, teachers, and leaders in different environments. In the following excerpt, Gruenert and Whitaker explain one of the six types of school cultures—the collaborative school culture—and some of the positive outcomes of this type of culture.
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      Want to read more about ways to change your school culture? Read the first chapter here or pick up a copy in print or e-book format in the ASCD Online Store.

      Steve Gruenert is the department chair of the educational leadership department at Indiana State University (ISU). He helped design the Indiana Principal Leadership Institute, has coordinated the Principal Preparation Program at ISU, and has been a principal at both the high school and middle school levels.

      His research passion is school culture and climate, and he continues to engage with leaders at the national and international levels, helping them think about the role of culture in school improvement.

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