The School Leaders Tool School Culture

According to the article, “The School Leaders Tool” school culture is the shared experience both in and out of school that create a sense of community, family, and a team membership. I believe that the school culture depends on the efforts, and behavior of the building leader. For instance, effective building leaders should promote educational success, collaboration, cohesiveness, and quality education. School culture can also be shaped by parental involvement. Within a school culture, there are stages to building partnerships in order to shape the schools culture, and maximize parental involvement. For instance, parents are automatically stakeholders due to their interest in the curriculum and the success of the overall success of their children; they can be your strongest supporters. In the Text, Practicing the art …show more content…
In order to get parents involved, the building leader should understand how to appropriately articulate the vision of the school by actively including them in decision making whether it’s in the classroom, during parent nights or in staff meetings. When parents are actively engage in the classrooms with kids they’re able to visually assess the strengths and weakness of students learning, teaching methods, and the classroom curriculum. In return this information could be shared in PTA meetings. For instance, PTA meetings are powerful because they’re based on advocating for the kids. During these meetings parents are able to discuss classroom progress, conduct family and community events in support of the school, and also determine ways to maximize students learning from a parent, and spokesperson