Struggling with teacher and student disengagement, teacher burnout or low morale in your school?
Coping with these issues can add unnecessary costs while demanding a large portion of your resources.
Most school leaders often struggle to find the time to:
Understand their school's culture and climate.
Forward-plan for their culture aspirations.
Intentionally engage with staff, students and parents.
Addressing these matters often takes a backseat due to the pressing responsibilities in areas such as academics, safety and operations.
Moreover, the detrimental effects of teacher burnout and the necessity for morale boosts can often go unaddressed.
We understand the critical connection between staff, student and parent experiences. Our team can help you take control of your school's culture and climate, allowing you to create a positive impact and attain optimal success.
Boost your team's capacity!
We provide an effortless partnership. We ensure a smooth, complementary workflow to your existing structure. Depending on your time and resources, we tailor an engagement strategy suited to your needs. Our collaboration begins with an initial discussion to understand your specific needs and define how our partnership can benefit you.
Initial engagement: Engage with senior leadership (head of school, principal or superintendent) for agreement on terms, strategic priorities, goals, timing and other vital engagement details.
Regular sessions: Organize weekly meetings initially, adjusting frequency as required.
Team involvement: We include additional team members as needed and work with a point person for regular sessions.
It’s as easy as 1-2-3-4
When we partner with you to intentionally design and deliver a thriving culture, we follow our simple and effective four-step Culture Impact Framework™, inspired by years of working with some of the most trusted organizations in the world. We’ve applied those same principles to develop a systematic approach geared specifically toward schools and higher education institutions. We will partner with you to:
Examine the culture: Examine your current school culture and climate, defining your aspirational future goals.
Operationalize internally: Apply and operationalize these goals within your institution, considering the perspectives of students, staff and the administration.
Operationalize externally: Deliver upon these goals to external audiences, such as parents and the local community.
Continuous improvement: Continually and holistically manage and enhance your school culture and climate.
We identify the gaps between your present and future state, then utilize proven methodologies to operate and manage the culture transition. We formulate an action plan outlining attainable priorities and measurable tactics.
So, what can you expect to achieve?
Improve staff experience: Enhance teacher morale and decrease burnout.
Culture development: Define your desired culture state and inculcate requisite behaviors for attainment.
Deliver excellence: Provide consistent top-notch services to students, parents, the community and other external stakeholders.
Maximize outcomes: Boost desired results, internal and external influence and impact, and deliver return on investment.
What is the difference between school culture and climate?
School culture represents the living, breathing persona of your school, comprising the norms, values, goals, attitudes, practices and behaviors that define the school’s character. It is:
The shared beliefs and standards.
Held within the hearts and minds of all staff members and students.
The behaviors that happen when no one is watching.
School climate is the attitude and mood of your school. It can be positive or negative across the entire school or vary among pockets. It is:
The collective mood or morale.
The perceptions of the staff and students within the school.
How the staff and students are feeling throughout each day.
School climate alters because of:
Environmental factors.
Discouraging or encouraging institutional processes and practices.
The positive or negative gestures and actions of people within the school.
School culture disintegrates when:
It is not valued and lived by your leaders.
There is a lack of clarity and alignment.
There are forces in opposition to your beliefs and standards.
You are unable to deliver upon your ideals for any reason.
The Impact of Positive School Culture and Climate
A thriving school culture with a positive school climate delivers better academic results and increased social and emotional wellbeing for staff and students.
Hanover Research shares:
Employee dissatisfaction, stress and attrition continue to present major concerns in public education. Nine out of 10 teachers report burnout and districts continue to see record teacher turnover, both of which have a negative impact on students.
Branching Minds shares:
School climate matters. Sustained positive school climate is associated with positive child and youth development, effective risk-prevention and health-promotion efforts, student learning and academic achievement, increased student graduation rates and teacher retention.
The climate of a school has an impact on student learning; a positive school climate has been shown to be associated with higher levels of academic achievement across all grade levels.
When school and classroom environments are characterized as being respectful and students and staff have shared expectations, students show higher levels of academic engagement.
School climate also contributes to how teachers and staff feel supported within their schools. Teacher-reported school climate is directly related to their sense of wellbeing and retention rates.
The relationships among teachers and staff can also contribute to the overall climate of a school. When staff treat each other with respect and care, it can improve teacher wellbeing and trickle down to influence the experiences that students have within the school.
A thriving school culture is vital for maximum social and emotional wellness and academic success.
When a thriving school culture coupled with a positive school climate is in place, your staff will deliver their very best for you, your students, parents and the community because they:
Feel connected to your mission.
Embrace your values.
Find purpose in their work.
Feel valued and have a sense of belonging.
Are happy, engaged and motivated.
Understand their role in achieving the school's goals.
A thriving school culture with a positive climate delivers loyal advocates who:
Ride the waves with you.
Support you along your shared journey and encourage others to join.
Partner to create and bring new ideas to life.
Are invested in achieving mutual success.
