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School Culture-Increasing Academic Achievement
Dewey L. ChapmanSuperintendentPortage County Educational Service Center
Dr. Gloria Dunnivan, Ph.D.Director, Dual EnrollmentKent State University
Positive School Climate
• Overall psychological and physical atmosphere
• People like to be there
• Caring and respect are evident
• People are responsible for others
• Students are decision makers
Why Address School Climate?
• Most pervasive influence in the school
• Learning distracted by: Unmet health needs
Substance use
Feeling isolated
Worry about bullying
Mismatch of
teaching/learning
Feeling Connected
• Teacher caring motivates
• Feeling connected is protective against:
Alcohol and drug use
Violence
Tobacco use
Depression/suicide
Research has shown that Social
Emotional Learning (SEL) has an impact
on every aspect of children’s
development: their health; ethical
development, citizenship, academic
learning and motivation to achieve.Promoting Children’s Ethical Development through Social and Emotional LearningCASEL-University of Illinois
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)• Emotions affect how and what we learn
• Relationships provide foundation for learning
• Promotes attachment to school
• Positive effects on academic performance
• Benefits to physical health
• Essential for lifelong success
• Demanded by employers
• Risk of maladjustment, failed relationships, unhappiness
reduced Promoting Children’s Ethical Development through Social and Emotional LearningCASEL-University of Illinois
SEL Outcomes Related to School Success• Performance
Increases in achievement over time Better problem solving and planning Improved learning-to-learn skills
• Attitudes Better sense of community (bonding) Higher academic motivation and aspirations Increased understanding of consequences of behavior
• Behavior Increase in prosocial behavior Reductions in aggression and disruptionsLower rate of conduct problems
Promoting Children’s Ethical Development through Social and Emotional LearningCASEL-University of Illinois
Successful Teaching & Learning Environments are Effective, Efficient, Relevant, & Durable
• “Pupil achievements & behavior can be influenced
(for the better or worse) by overall characteristics of
school….this means focus on features promoting
good functioning at classroom, departmental or
whole school level.”
• “Improving overall level may be expected to have
benefits at the extremes so long as favorable school
features do actually impinge on children with
special needs.”
Rutter & Maughan, 2002, pp. 470-471
Motivation
Motivation is a concept used to understand what drives people to perform certain activities and persist in them. Students who believe they will be successful engage in more metacognition, use more effective cognitive strategies, persist in tasks longer, and are more likely to perform better in the classroom than students who do not believe they can perform the task. Motivation is positively related to performance and increased learning.
Motivation
Teachers have a profound effect on students’ motivation and aspirations. Teachers who have the most positive influence on students are the ones who are able to generate enthusiasm for learning, and set high standards and high expectations. Teachers who help develop students’ positive self-concepts and identities increase academic achievement.
Creating a Positive School Climate
School Culture• School culture is the values, beliefs, behaviors,
practices, norms, philosophy, rituals, and ceremonies that characterize a school.
• Vision turns an organizations core ideology, or sense of purpose, into an image of what the future might become.Boleman and Deal, Reframing Organizations
Creating a Positive School Climate Through Vision
The educational leader is responsible for
articulating and implementing the vision of
the school as well as effectively
communicating it to staff, parents, students,
and community members.
School Culture – Framing an Organization
Four frames:• structural• human resource• political• symbolic should be utilized when examining the culture of an organization.
Reframing Organizations, Boleman and Deal
Structural FrameFocus on rules, roles, goals, and policies that shape an channel decisions and activities.
Human Resource FrameConcern with the well-being of staff and studentsPhilosophy for managing people and systems and practices to implement that philosophy.
Political FrameProvides a view of organizations as coalitions with a focus on relationships an alliances that will help foster the vision.
Symbolic FrameFocus on how humans make sense of the world through meaning, belief, and faith. Perceived in schools through rituals, ceremonies, heroes and heroines, symbols, and stories.
Dewey L. ChapmanSuperintendentPortage County Educational Service [email protected]
Dr. Gloria Dunnivan, Ph.D.Director, Dual EnrollmentKent State [email protected]