New Principals Workshop Redemptive Principalship

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New Principals Workshop Redemptive Principalship

• Hinsdale Bernard
• Associate Professor of
• Educational Administration
• and Leadership
• Andrews University

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School Climate
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Overview of Presentation

• Definition of School Climate
• Facets of School Climate
• General Climate Factors
• Goals of the Humane School Climate
• School Administrator as Climate Leader
• School Climate Instruments
• Research on School Climate
• Summary
• Epilogue

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Definitions of School and Classroom Climate

• Schools personality or health
• Feelings derived from social system norms ,
  expectations, beliefs
• The total environmental quality within an
  organization
• Expressed as characteristics in the people in the
  school trust, mutual respect, support for each
  other

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Facets of School Climate

• Program Determinants
• Process Determinants
• Material Determinants
• People Determinants

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General Climate Factors

• Respect
• Trust
• High Morale
• Opportunities for Input
• Continuous Holistic Development
• Cohesiveness
• School Renewal
• Caring

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School Administrator as Climate Leader

• Activity In your discussion groups, formulate a
  strategy for implementing a school climate
  program in your school using the following
  guidelines
• Assess school climate
• Set goals for improvement
• Operationalize the goals
• Devise strategies for goal attainment
• Monitor progress
• Make improvements based on evaluation

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School Climate Instruments

• Learning Environment Inventory
• Classroom Environment Scale
• Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire
  (OCDQ)
• OCDQ-RE
• Individualized Classroom Environment
  Questionnaire
• My Class Inventory
• Group Openness and Trust Scale
• Tennessee School Climate Inventory

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Highlights of Research on School Climate

• Leadership style and school climate
• School climate and student achievement
• Organizational climate and student achievement
• Leadership and student performance

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Summary ofSchool Climate Focus

• Academic
• Achievement Motivation
• Caring and Sensitivity
• Collaborative Decision Making
• High Expectations
• Leadership
• Order and Discipline

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Summary ofSchool Climate Focus

• Physical Environment
• School Safety
• Staff-Parent Relationship
• Staff-Student Relationship
• Staff Interpersonal Relationships
• Student Interpersonal Relationships
• Trust

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Summary ofSchool Climate Focus

• Program
• Policies
• Products
• Places
• People

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Epilogue
Evidence exists that a school is the shadow of
its administrator. The school administrator is
first and foremost a climate leader whose key
function is the improvement of the
schools climate or learning environment. School
improvement begins with the administrator.
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Epilogue

• It is the love of Christ that controls me. 2 Cor
  5 14 (Gspd).
• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
  longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
  meekness, temperance against such there is no
  law. Gal. 5 22, 23. (KJV).

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Epilogue

• C - Christs
• L - Love
• I - Influences
• M - My
• A - Attitude
• T - Toward
• E - Everyone

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It is the love of Christ that controls me. 2 Cor
5 14 (Gspd)
Evidence exists that a school is the shadow of
its administrator. The school administrator is
first and foremost a climate leader whose key
function is the improvement of the schools
climate or learning environment. School
improvement begins with the administrator.

• C - Christs
• L - Love
• I - Influences
• M - My
• A - Attitude
• T - Toward
• E - Everyone

Climate and Cross