Building Strong School Cultures: A Guide to Leading Change (Leadership for Learning Series)

Develop an integrated school culture that engages educators with their colleagues and communities!

This resource calls on principals to create a viable, sustainable school culture using the professional community, organizational learning, and trust to affect teaching and learning. Part of the Leadership for Learning series, this volume presents a leadership approach that integrates teachers, parents, and community members into a coherent team. The authors examine schools that have achieved lasting cultural change and present practical strategies for: 

• Diagnosing and shaping a school culture 
• Revising leadership functions to broaden decision-making processes 
• Rethinking organizational structures 
• Supporting continuous improvement while ensuring stability

• School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It
• Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School
• Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement (Bringing the Professional Learning Community Process to Life)
• Shaping School Culture: Pitfalls, Paradoxes, and Promises
• Communicating Effectively: Tools for Educational Leaders
• The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact
• Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn
• A Better Way to Budget: Building Support for Bold, Student-Centered Change in Public Schools
• Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems
• Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice