This document discusses school culture and leadership practices. It notes that school culture may be the key ingredient that sets great schools apart. The role of the leader is explored, with quotes from teachers and leadership standards. An example is given of how one school improved its culture from 2012 to 2014. The document examines what priorities and values leaders should have. It also looks closer at leadership, with quotes about creating schools where all students learn and leadership being a social act focused on people. Finally, the five levels of leadership are mentioned along with contact information for Jan King.

1. Now, that’s my kind
of school!
Cultural Leadership Practices
Transylvania County Schools
November 2014

2. School Culture
Is this the
magic ingredient
that sets apart the
great schools?

4. Stranger in a Building

5. What is the leader’s role?

6. In the words of teachers…

7. From the Standards:

8. An Example of Re-Culturing:
2014
2012

9. An Example of Re-Culturing:
2014
2012

11. My Priorities

12. What Do You Value?

13. Sometimes, it is the little things.

14. A Few Questions
O Are you a good driver?
O Do you genuinely enjoy what you are
doing?
O Are you a good talent scout?

15. Are you a good driver?

16. Are you a good driver?
Future Past

17. Driving Record Artifacts

18. Do you like your school?
Can you build a quality team?

19. Practices from the Standards

20. Practices from the Standards

21. A Look at Leadership

22. A Closer Look
“The moral purpose of school
leadership is to create schools in
which all students learn, the gap
between high and low performance
is greatly diminished and what
students learn will prepare them for
success in their futures, not ours.”

23. A Closer Look
“The work of leadership is about
working with, for and through people.
It is a social act. Whether we are
discussing instructional leadership,
change leadership or leadership as
learning, people are always the
medium for the leader.”

24. A Closer Look
“The concept of leadership is
extremely complex…Isolating the
parts of leadership completely
misses the power of the whole. It is
not just knowing what to do, but why
to do it, how to do it and when to do
it.”

25. A Closer Look
“Leaders bring their ‘person’ to the
practice of leadership.”

26. Who We Are As Leaders
O We are in positions of influence and
trust.
O We are expected to have a moral
compass.
O We are modeling the expectation.
O We determine the ‘weather’ in our roles.

27. Five Levels of Leadership

28. Jan King
North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction
jan.king@dpi.nc.gov
(828) 606-0177
Twitter @jan4tarheels
Questions?