Wednesday, March 30, 2016

School Leaders Panel on Culture Builder

Culture is dependent on the underlying values. Collectively, we can build culture. It is a cooperative process and it would evolve. You need to know the basics, literacy and numeracy, to learn. Culture building requires strategies and then structure. Culture should reflect what is needed in the 21st century. Preach often and occasionally talk. - Greg Whitby

School culture overshadows practices when they are nort aligned. When there are inconsistencies between practice and culture, new pedagogies would not be adopted. Culture exist in an ecology. CPA sends out messages of the culture. Innovation entails conflict and (70%) failure. - Dr Jennifer Tan

Appreciate (build importance and belief), break, challenge - Chan Poh Meng

Culture building takes time yet there is an urgency to change. How do we do that? Are there strategies to expedite the process?
- dialogic leadership
- be explicitly clear what you want to do
- take little steps, they make a difference

How do we involve students in co-creating the desired culture?
- involved in the conversations of change

Culture should not be leader dependent. If culture is so important, time is needed for change.

How do we balance the need to manage high performance while allowing failure?

Culture would not change until there is personal responsibility

Passion must be driven by purpose
Be clear what you want and stick to it. The language can change but the intention should remain.
Innovation - be clear of the purpose as there are opportunity cost
Have sufficient clarity

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