Student Culture
Julie Jackson & Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
Edited by Kelli Marshall and Cory Graham
Do Now: 7 minutes
What is your vision for student
culture?
What to Do (Directions):
1. Get into your school leader groups.
2. Draw an illustration of your vision for student
culture?
“A great student culture is one in which the human
actions and interactions are deliberately reflective of core
values of joyful learning and rigor.”
--Katie Yezzi, Principal,
Uncommon Schools-True North
“When we discuss school culture, we are talking about
everything about schooling, outside of the classroom.”
-Marcus Robinson, C.E.O. & Chancellor,
EdPower
What is the determining factor?
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• http://www.tindleycollegiate.org/studentlife/college-or-die/
Workshop Objectives:
• Identify and apply the 5 keys to effective student
culture
• Identify key systems that create and positively
impact student culture
• Create minute by minute plans based on their
vision of student culture
– Create/Revamp SOP for School(s) Culture Systems
Case Study
Blue Hill Elementary School
Case Study—Blue Hill Elementary
School:
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Read and Take Notes (5-7 min)
Discuss Questions
Identify Pain Points and Record
Identify Fixes and Record
Case Study—Blue Hill Elementary
School:
What is your big takeaway?
Student Culture in Action Video
Stacey Shells: Morning Routine
Stacey’s Vision:
To create a learning environment that is both rigorous
and joyful, and that utilizes every minute of the day as
a learning opportunity
Five Keys to Effective Student Culture:
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Establish a vision
Identify key systems needed
Turn vision into minute-by-minute systems
Practice
Monitor and Maintain
Five Keys to Effective Student Culture:
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5.
Establish a vision
Identify key systems needed
Turn vision into minute-by-minute systems
Practice
Monitor and Maintain
Step 1—Establish a Vision:
School leader must:
• Ask, “What do I want students and adults doing in
my school?”
Your turn:
• What is your vision for your student culture?
• Get into you school leader group and write your vision
• Record your notes!
Five Keys to Effective Student Culture:
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5.
Establish a vision
Identify key systems needed
Turn vision into minute-by-minute systems
Practice
Monitor and Maintain
Step 2—Identify the Systems:
School leader must:
• Identify school-wide systems that are needed in
order to make the big vision into a day-to-day reality
Your turn:
• Work with a partner
• What school-wide systems will you need in order to
turn your vision into a reality?
• Record your notes!
The Eight Systems That Create Great
Student Culture:
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Arrival
Breakfast
Morning Meeting/Circle
Transitions
Lunch
Dismissal
Celebrating Learning
Discipline
Five Keys to Effective Student Culture:
1. Establish a vision
2. Identify key systems needed
3. Turn vision into minute-by-minute systems
(School Scripts)
4. Practice
5. Monitor and Maintain
Ray’s vision…
…was well-planned
Some have a vision…
…but are still working on their plan
Steps for Strengthening School
Culture
Step 1: Identify the problem
Step 2: Write the vision and the
minute by minute system
Step 3: Practice/Rehearse
Step 4: Monitor and Maintain
Minute-by-Minute Systems
School leader must:
• Build the minute-by-minute routines that will make
the vision a reality (e.g., Morning Arrival)
Your turn:
• Work with your school team
• Write/ Reflect upon your system for morning arrival
(10-15 min)
• Record your notes on the system planning template
Don’t forget to plan the practice and rehearsal
System Planning Activity
Each team will now have 5 minutes to present their
morning arrival system plan
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Present Your System Plan
Ask Clarifying Questions
Give Feedback
Presenting School Team responds to
feedback/takes notes
Reflection:
• What are some of your “aha” moments?
• What impact does this system (morning
arrival)have on student culture?
Minute-by-Minute Systems
Your turn:
• Work with your School Team
• Write a minute-by-minute system for Morning Arrival
(15 min)
TIME
6:40
6:55
7:00
7:00-7:35
7:35
7:40
7:45-7:55
7:55-8:15
SCHEDULE
All faculty must be present (breakfast provided)
All teachers at their assigned station-commons room & outside
Doors open for students (game time!)
Greeting & Bright work
Checking Life’s work binders
Clean-up Bright work
All school Clap-teaching led by Sparling
Greeting of the community-led by Jackson
Teaching breakfast routines led by Sparling
Eating of breakfast & cleaning up (all students should be ready to go at 8:15
8:15
8:15-8:25
8:25-8:35
8:35-8:55
All school Clap
Teaching tracking led by (
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Teaching of HALL position led by Noel
Transition from commons room to classroom (practicing HALL position and tracking) Taxonomy areas of
focus: Narrating the positive and 100%
8:50-9:00
Teacher greeting & assigned seating (one teacher in the hallway- two teachers in the classroom-all classes
will have at least 3 teachers)
9:00-9:15
Name Game –Question of the day (make sure cards are prepped and ready to go)
9:10-9:15
9:15-9:25
9:25-9:50
9:50-10:00
10:00-10:30
Teaching of S and T of STAR at seat (each classroom lead)
Transition to the rug (practice-each step prior to the transition)
Read Aloud and teaching of S (rug) and T of STAR behavior
Transition back to seat
Bathroom break & snack (in the background you are playing music-the writing cd)
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:20
Writing- (Day 1 writing plan)
Get ready for dismissal
-pass out life’s work folder-with reading log inside and weekly preview sheet
-take off student name tags
-fun song with them to end the day
-transition students to the cafeteria
11:20-11:30
Teaching of lunch procedures-led by Sparling (all teachers in the commons room k-4)
11:30-12:00
12:00
12:10
Lunch- all teachers on deck in grades K-2 (Day 1-August 30)
Lunch dismissal (take students to class)
Line students up & walk them outside-there will be three teachers for each class (one in the front, one in
the back of the line, & one guiding the line-it is essential that the line is organized so every student goes to
the person they are supposed to go to)
1:30
Faculty huddle (commons room)
Five Keys to Effective Student Culture:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Establish a vision
Identify key systems needed
Turn vision into minute-by-minute systems
Practice
Monitor and Maintain
Why is it important to practice/ rehearse?
What must a school leader do to ensure effective
practice?
Practice Perfect
School leader must:
• Invest teachers
• Give multiple opportunities to practice and rehearse
before executing with students
• Write a minute-by-minute plan
• Practice in small chunks, give feedback, revise, and
practice again and again!
Practice with Adults Video #27
North Star Academy Elementary
School
Thoughts?
Practice with Adults Video #28
North Star Academy Elementary
School
Thoughts?
Practice-to-Implementation
No matter the system…
o Practice with adults--prior to launch
o Implement with students--Day 1
o Set a measurable goal for the system to become a
routine (shouldn’t exceed two weeks…and that may
be stretching it)
“Culture before Curriculum”
Five Keys to Effective Student Culture:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Establish a vision
Identify key systems needed
Turn vision into minute-by-minute systems
Practice
Monitor and Maintain
What gets monitored gets done.
Monitor and Maintain
School leader must:
• MONITOR and MAINTAIN essential systems by
evaluating progress with a measurable tool and
scheduling time to OBSERVE
Your Turn:
• Discuss with a partner
• As a school leader, how will you monitor and
maintain student culture?
Tools for Monitoring and Maintaining
Student Culture:
• School Culture Rubric
• Leader’s Schedule
• Other ???
Workshop Objectives:
• Identify and apply the 5 keys to effective student
culture
• Identify key systems that create and positively
impact student culture
• Create minute by minute plans based on their
vision of student culture
– Create/Revamp SOP for School(s) Culture Systems
Self-Reflection:
What are your key takeaways?
“Your school is a reflection of you.”
--Dave Levin,
KIPP Co-Founder and Superintendent,
KIPP New York