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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…

Clue #1

• Theme – a saying
• 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

• Spirit week
• Staff events
• From the beginning

(iExcel)

• Awards ceremonies
• Senior events
• Social media shout outs

How this looks for Staff

• RISE Awards (weekly)
• Morning huddles
• Staff “rap session”
• Shout outs to start every

meeting

• Staff leading PD sessions
• 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

Culture Values Buy In

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 is culture perceived?

How do you want new students to see you as? How do you visitors to see you?

How do you see culture in action?

What does it look like? What do you want to see from staff? From students?

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