Prioritizing and Balancing School Culture Always Goodwill Excel Center Chelsea Kirk, School Director VerShaun Terry, Manager of Special Education
Goals of the session • Identify your ideal school culture values and pillars. • Determine a framework to build out the school culture values into action.
CTOTD (Culture Tag of the Day) Let’s begin…
• Theme – a saying Clue #1 • Something someone might say when another person isn’t paying attention
Why culture tags? POSITIVE ENERGY BUY IN AUTHENTICITY CELEBRATION
Let’s continue Our first question to all students during iExcel and staff also answers this as well
Cult lture in in “the why” Why does the why matter?
GEC Culture Values • Celebration • Joy • Appreciation
Celebration • What does it mean to have a culture founded in celebration? • How does this look? • Who is being celebrated? • What is being celebrated?
Celebration How it looks for Students How this looks for Staff • Spirit week • RISE Awards (weekly) • Staff events • Morning huddles • From the beginning • Staff “rap session” (iExcel) • Shout outs to start every • Awards ceremonies meeting • Senior events • Staff leading PD sessions • Social media shout outs • Staff outings
Celebration
Joy • What does it mean to have “joy” for the GEC community? • How do you create joy? • What does joy look like?
Jo Joy • Go where you are celebrated, not where you’re tolerated. • Joy of working at the Excel Center • Community – both students and staff • Centering the work on students
Appreciation • How do you show appreciation? • What do people need to feel appreciated? • How does value come from appreciation?
Appreciation • How does your staff want to be appreciated? • Opportunity for leadership team members to know their teams • Each team member has a different “love language” of appreciation • Individualized and group appreciation moments • How do you students know they are appreciated? • RISE values • Buy into the community • Outcomes – attendance, engagement, productivity, volunteering
Culture values to buy in Buy In Culture Values
Buy In • Staff are willing to take risks if they feel part of the community (and valued) • Term to term changes and shifts based on needs and data • Leadership Team decision-making with input from teams • Using the Goodwill community and our Goodwill partners • Students come to school and learn if they feel welcomed and appreciated
Prioritizing Culture • Every decision is made from the lens of culture • Inclusive culture • Authentic culture • Starts with leadership team and planning • Moves into each team • Translates into the classroom and the hallways • Shows in the building • Extends into the virtual space(s) • Intentional prioritization
Your Turn • What are your current school culture values? • If someone walked into your building, could they name your culture? How would they describe your culture? • Type a word or emoji in the chat box that describes this… • Be honest • This is where culture starts
Let’s Dream and Plan • What do you want? • Who do you have on your staff who can help build this? • You are the coach • Who do you have on your bench? • Think about your entire team
Questions to Process How do you What does it look like? see culture What do you want to see from staff? From students? in action? How do you want new students to see you as? How is culture perceived? How do you visitors to see you?
Your Next Steps Action Plan Prioritize With Time Identify Team Members Identify Culture Values Identify Next Steps
Questions? • Chelsea Kirk – Chelsea.Kirk@goodwillexcelcenter.org • VerShaun Terry – Vershaun.Terry@goodwillexcelcenter.org
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