Leveraging the Impact of Culture and Climate: Deep, Significant, and Lasting Change in Classrooms and Schools (School Improvement Ideas for Driving Change and Creating a Positive School Culture)

While culture and climate are strongly connected, they are two separate concepts. And when educators recognize and leverage the impact of both, they can implement effective classroom and school improvement. In Leveraging the Impact of Culture and Climate: Deep, Significant, and Lasting Change in Classrooms and Schools, authors Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker provide K-12 educators and school leaders with a framework for understanding and assessing culture and climate at the school and classroom levels. Teachers and school leaders will gain research-based strategies, tools, and solutions to combat the challenges they face when initiating classroom or schoolwide change to ensure student success. Readers Will: Understand the commonalities and differences between culture and climate, Identify the characteristics of effective and ineffective classroom cultures, Learn how to assess the values and beliefs of educators at the classroom and school levels, Evaluate their school's capacity to change using a step-by-step process, Consider how the elements of culture and climate influence school-improvement efforts, Visit go.Solution Tree.com/schoolimprovement to download the free reproducibles in this book. Book jacket.