The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook, 2nd Edition

New challenges have surfaced for school leaders, mostly regarding issues of standards-based testing, school accountability, and student achievement. In the second editions of these two path-breaking books, the authors have expanded their model to address the latest thinking on school culture and change and feature new ideas and strategies along with powerful new case examples for revitalizing school culture, that:

• Uncover a school's hidden values, beliefs, and assumptions
• Think through and develop a school’s mission and purpose
• Work out appropriate stories, metaphors and symbols to represent a school
• Devise rituals and ceremonies for enriching the school experience
• Rethink leadership practices in light of educational and cultural needs.
• Identify, transform, and heal a toxic educational culture