Climate vs. Culture

Climate generally refers to:

• The overall positive beliefs of the staff

• The average daily temperature in the building

• The collective attitude and feeling within a building that is context-dependent

• Culture and climate are essentially the same

The culture of a school is:

• unseen, unwritten, and undefinable

• easily shifted through hiring practices

• directly related to the culture of the broader community

• impossible to change

Student morale and staff morale are, at times, inversely related.

• True

• False

School culture is best defined as:

• The way people react in very specific situations

• The history of the organization regardless of its current members

• Partly written policies and procedures, and partly people-centered

• The personality of the school, its professional religion

A school's culture is a very powerful force that often leads to:

• positive outcomes for all students

• new faculty assimilating to established norms and practices

• a rejection of divergent thinking

• Answers 2 & 3

The impact of a principal and teacher leaders on a school's culture cannot be overstated.

• True

• False