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Changing School Culture: Our “Stand Up” Story
David Simpson - @davidsimpson512 Judy Bouley - @JClarkBouley Central Woodlands #MEMSPA2014
http:/ /goo.gl/pLcvJz Central Woodlands: Who We Are Today s - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
http:/ /goo.gl/pLcvJz Central Woodlands: Who We Are Today s - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Changing School Culture: Our Stand Up Story David Simpson - @davidsimpson512 Judy Bouley - @JClarkBouley Central Woodlands #MEMSPA2014 http:/ /goo.gl/pLcvJz Central Woodlands: Who We Are Today s Targets See the difference
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Today’ s Targets
See the difference between a program and a culture Have ideas to take directly back to your school
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The History of our Story
Middle School CW’ s Culture New Principal
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Stand Alone Initiatives
CAB School of Character PBIS Energy Bus
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What happens when things get busy?
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Program vs. Culture
Organized Easy to implement Data Retrieval Looks good on paper Easy to discard
Embedded Common Language All encompassing Slow to change Will be there even when school gets hectic
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Program vs. Culture
146 Think Time referrals 17 days of suspension Parent Phone Calls/Bully Concerns
45 Think Time referrals 6 days of suspension Very few Parent Concerns/ Norming of Parents (Parent Volunteer at MS)
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Culture
“A school’ s culture has more influence
- n life and learning in the schoolhouse
than the president of the country, the state department of education, the superintendent, the school board, or even the principal, teachers, and parents can ever have. ”
- Roland Barth
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- Peter Drucker
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Quick Wins
Corporate Executive Board - 5400 new leaders Most successful
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Quick Wins
- Most of highest rated leaders had managed to secure a
“quick win”—a new and visible contribution to the success
- f the business made early in their tenure.
- Those who had achieved a quick win scored on average
nearly 20% higher than those who hadn’
- t. A quick win is
a crucial form of reassurance to team members deciding whether to place confidence in their new manager;
- https:/
/hbr.org/2009/01/the-quick-wins-paradox
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Quick Wins to Snowball
Opening Assembly Lunchroom 6th Grade Town Hall Meetings (paradigm shift) Created a “Common Language”
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The Snowball Begins…
Teachers embedded vocabulary of “Stand Up” on their own Autumn Olive Writing Prompts Social Studies
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Organic
Did not push right away (new Principal) Allowed for opportunities for staff to see “Stand Up” in action
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Staff Noticed
Lunchroom Behavior Hallway behavior Think Time Referrals Student Reporting Veteran’ s Day Assembly - 2013 This was the “tipping point”
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4 days after Veteran’ s Day Assembly
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How we knew we were changing culture
We saw it in our Students!!! Yearbook Design Contest Students emailing Google Slides Students coming to office to “Stand Up” for other students We see it in their writing
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Stand Up - Unscripted
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Wearing a CW Stand Up shirt
- ut in Public…
PRICElESS
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After our MLK Presentation - A Student Perspective on the connection between MLK and Stand UP
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Thanksgiving Stand Up Challenge
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Staff Dancing Away
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My role as Principal
Frontload Stand UP 1/2 of our students are new every year Everything at CW is tied back into Stand Up The message is visible Support Stand Up ideas
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Intentionality as a Leader
Every Newsletter has space for Stand UP Tweet about it Blog about it Use the language every time I meet with students Monthly town hall Stand Up meetings
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Intentionality as a Leader
Connect it to every assembly (Veteran’ s Day, Magazine fundraiser) Get PTO involved Find funds for Staff T-Shirts and school signage Empower staff (everyone) to run with it
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Newsletters….
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Website
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Blog
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Veteran’ s Day
“Throughout our history, our Veterans have “Stood Up for our country. ” They have spoken out against those who threatened the freedoms we hold
- dear. Throughout our history…our
veterans have stood with each other through battle and adversity so that we may be free. ”
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Ideas to Use!
Feel free to make our ideas your own at your school!
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Simple 2 minutes in class!!!
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Peace Pole and End of Year
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Interactive Bulletin Boards
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In the Bathrooms!
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Pledge Assembly
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Stand Up Everywhere
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The Bottom Line…
What is important to your building? What are you struggling with? What do you want to hang your hat
- n?
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The Bottom Line
GO ALL IN! Enlist Support (great opportunity to get parents involved) Make it your OWN! CREATE A COMMON LANGUAGE!!!!
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