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Assessing School Culture

The document discusses an instrument developed by Gruenert and Valentine (2015) that can be used to assess a school's culture. The instrument measures 13 aspects of school culture: student achievement, collegial awareness, shared values, risk taking, decision making, trust, openness, parent relations, leadership, communication, socialization, collegiality, and organization history. It also describes six types of school cultures: toxic, fragmented, balkanized, contrived-collegial, comfortable-collaborative, and collaborative.

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Assessing School Culture

The document discusses an instrument developed by Gruenert and Valentine (2015) that can be used to assess a school's culture. The instrument measures 13 aspects of school culture: student achievement, collegial awareness, shared values, risk taking, decision making, trust, openness, parent relations, leadership, communication, socialization, collegiality, and organization history. It also describes six types of school cultures: toxic, fragmented, balkanized, contrived-collegial, comfortable-collaborative, and collaborative.

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Assessing School Culture

In assessing the culture with your school, you may use the instrument developed by gruenert and valentine(2015).

• Student Achievement
The extent to which a learner has attained their short or long – term educational
• Collegial Awareness
Making the most of your college experience by embracing collegial- ness.
• Shared Values
Provide overall guidance for organizational members to make the correct decision in a given situation.
• Risk Taking
Putting oneself in the position of potentially losing something to achieve a goal.
• Decision making
The process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative
resolutions.
• Trust
Firm belief in the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something.
• Opennes
Is how open – minded, imaginative, creative and insightful a person can be.
• Parent relation
Classroom volunteering, chaperoning school events, participating in parent-teacher conferences and other
communication with teachers.
• Leadership
Instill the school shaved values, ideals, principles, and beliefs in the members of the school.
• Communication
Communicating effectively is the best way to keep everyone connected and informed.
• Socialization
The beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape and influence.
• Collegial
Learning by means of teachers teaching other teachers within groups, programs intuition, and between
universities.
• Organization history
The culture of a school refers to the shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that are characteristic
of the school community.
• Toxic
Don’t have a clear sense of purpose, blame student poor achievement, and have norms that reinforce
inaction.
• Fragmented
Teachers function as individuals with classroom doors staying closed and teachers having their own
territory and for the most part liking it that way.
• Balkanized
Is a strong isolated and do not usually participate in other groups
• Contrived- collegial
A form of teacher culture in which the schools or external authorities improve their ideas to schools.
• Comfortable -collaborative
A congenial culture exist, the values cooperation, courtesy, and compliance.
• Collaborative
Member of the school community work together effectively and are guided by a common purpose.

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