How do great school cultures come about? A Q&A with Samuel Casey Carter
Samuel Casey Carter
When education policymakers look at schools that get great results despite a concentration of poverty or other impediments, they often identify a strong culture as one of the keys to a program’s success.
Indeed, recently my MinnPost blog has been home to stories about odds-busting schools where professionalism and discipline are emphasized, where all students wear coats and ties and recite a college-bound credo every morning and even one school where all classroom whiteboards are decorated identically.
Each of those schools was able to forge a strong culture either because it’s a young charter blessed with a faculty that shares a single vision, or was a mainline public school that was able to re-staff from top to bottom