Chapter 3 Do No Harm

1. Chapter 3 Do No Harm How to Create a Culture of Achievement

2. Essential Question • What are the shared beliefs, shared vision, and mission to create a nurturing learning environment for staff and students? • LEADS 2A: Nurture and sustain a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations. • Proficient: • Demonstrates a belief in and commitment to high academic expectations for all students. • Examines and utilizes data regularly collected through various means (e.g. culture/climate surveys, opinion surveys, needs assessment) to ensure a nurturing learning environment for students and staff. • Reinforces and supports mission and belief statements of the school and uses them to guide collaborative decision-making. • Engages regularly in dialogue with teachers and provides opportunities for teachers to share innovations that have resulted in higher achievement.

3. How to Create a Culture of Achievement • Table Groups: Identify the following roles for members: • Facilitator: Keep group members on task and topic. Makes sure everyone has a chance to participate and offer ideas. • Timekeeper: Reminds the group of time remaining for activity at regular intervals. • Recorder: Writes quickly to keep up with ideas. • Reporter: Synthesizes, with the help of group members, key points for oral or written reports • Keeper of the Vision: Reminds group members the overall purpose of the group. Focuses on the big picture. • Keeper of the Tools (if a 6 member group): Makes sure that the group uses formal “tools” for making the group’s work (decision making, problem-solving, planning, etc.) more effective and efficient.

4. You have 8 questions from the reading of Chapter 3. You now have 15 minutes to work through the questions.

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