School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning

In this book, the authors describe a comprehensive school reform approach that addresses the six areas needing reform and reduces resistance to school reform. Creating a "high-performing" school is an organizational approach to school reform that creates a distinctly different school culture and climate than can be found in existing schools. The authors detail a vision and mission for a comprehensive school reform that involves all stakeholders and leads to high performance.

Cletus R. Bulach, a retired Ohio school superintendent and college professor, has conducted research on principal leadership, character education, teacher caring behaviors, bullying behavior, school climate and culture, and group openness and trust. He has also developed surveys to collect data on these areas of research and has numerous publications based on these data.

PrefaceIntroduction Phase One Chapter 1: Four Types of School Culture Phase Two Chapter 2: A Four-Step Process for Identifying and Reshaping the Culture of a School Chapter 3: Implementing a Plan to Improve the Climate and Culture of the School Phase Three Chapter 4: Power and Authority: Nine Techniques for Motivating Faculty and Students Phase Four Chapter 5: A Character Education Program That Is the Foundation of a High Performing School Appendix A: Supervisory Climate Behaviors Appendix B: A Report of Caring Behaviors Appendix C: School Climate Graph Appendix D: Measure of School Culture and Climate Appendix E: Selected Character Traits and Their Corresponding Behaviors About the Authors