Building a Positive Adult Culture: Adult Culture and Leadership

1. Building a Positive Adult Culture:Adult Culture and Leadership

2. Do Now • How much time do you spend on building adult culture? Why? • Be Brave. How would you describe your current adult culture?

3. What is Culture? • The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group • The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.

4. Culture • To have culture or not to have culture, that is the question? • Whether we are aware or not aware, there is a school culture that we actively create and/or nurture • Student Orientation/Student Culture • Morning Procedures? • Entering a Classroom? • Bathroom Procedures? • Hand Signals? • Lunch Procedures? • What does this look like for adults? • Why are we explicit about students, but not about adults?

5. Culture • What’s in your culture?

6. Breaking Down Culture: Let’s talk about leaders!

7. Adult Culture: Types of Leadership • Leadership • Whatever You Like... • You already have “the goods.”

8. Adult Culture: Leadership • Setting Standards • Set before you have a staff • We work smart • We push one another • We give feedback • Being explicit about culture • What are your non-negotiables? • Do you lead with these? • What is the best way to talk about them?

9. Adult Culture: Hiring • Hiring • What do you want culture to look like? • Non-Negotialbes • Teachers in right places • Questions to ask candidates • Be firm in your loyalty to your mission • College Vs. Tech School/Trade. • This helps to get the right people on your team.

10. What do I do?

11. Teacher Orientation Day 1: The Best Part of Waking Up… • This is NOT about making people have a full belly. • This is NOT about showing your superiority to other schools. • What does this gesture show people?

12. Adult Culture • Where are people sitting? • What conversations are people having? • Returning Teachers vs. New Teachers

13. Adult Culture: Starting on Time • Don’t talk about it, be about it. • Waiting on the person who called/got lost • Setting a precedent of who we are.

14. Adult Culture: Modeling the Model • Happy that people are on time and here • People looking good • This work will be hard, AND rewarding.

15. Adult Culture: Inspiration • First session of Teacher Orientation • How do we inspire people who are coming?

16. “One of life’s first needs is for us to be realistic. Don’t misunderstand me now. We all here, like you, you know that. But you’ve got to be realistic about being a nigger. A lawyer, that’s no realistic goal for a nigger. You need to think about something you can be.”

17. EXCELLENCE

18. COMMUNITY

20. Daily Adult Culture • Morning Walk-Through • Morning Meetings • Transparency • Have Non-Negotiables • Make Problem Solvers

21. Adult Culture: Information • People must feel they have the tools to complete the task • Lessons learned • Not Equipping Teachers • Not addressing issues. • Not enough praise • HAVING FUN

22. What’s in Your Culture? • Changing your culture this year • Changing culture for next year • You Do

23. Adult Culture Urgency Urgency Urgency Urgency We have Urgency with our students. We must have Urgency with adults. Be Uncompromisingly Positive

24. EXCELLENCE

25. RESPONSIBILITY

26. RESPECT

27. COMMUNITY

28. Questions?