School Staff Culture

Knowledge-building, Reflection and Action

Ruth Ashbee

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Routledge
13 December 2023

Organisation & management of education; Primary & middle schools; Secondary schools

A powerful school culture can unite staff in a common vision, shape positive behaviours and attitudes, and create the conditions for the staff body to work as one. As the recruitment and retention crisis deepens, staff culture is more important than ever. This book explores how schools can develop a culture where individuals take pride in their work and actively seek and embrace development and challenge, seeing the big picture of the school and cherishing their role in it.

Drawing on key ideas from systems theory, psychology, anthropology, business and philosophy, this book explores the key ideas we need in order to understand culture and the concrete steps we can take in order to intentionally develop our staff culture in a positive direction. Each chapter features powerful input to strengthen our understanding alongside probing reflections to guide our own development.

Written by a leading practitioner and designed to support reflections and planning for concrete actions, this is essential reading for school leaders and head teachers wanting to develop an authentic, powerful and positive school staff culture.

School Staff Culture benefits from a completely free school development package, with session plans, slides and resources to structure a programme of sessions for leadership and specialist culture teams. The package supports the input, reflection, discussion, evaluation and contextualised application and review that will really bring the ideas in School Staff Culture to life in a school, and can be downloaded from www.routledge.com/9781032121963.

By: Ruth Ashbee
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781032121963
ISBN 10: 1032121963
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 13 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part 1: What you need to know 1. The way it feels to work here and the way we do things here 2. How culture arises and how we can influence it 3. Why developing good staff culture is hard Part 2: So what should we do? 4. Knowledge-building 5. The nature of work 6. Shared understanding 7. Interactions 8. Example timeline

Ruth Ashbee is a teacher, senior leader and blogger, and has worked in state comprehensives since qualifying as a teacher of physics in 2005. Specialising in curriculum, teacher development and school improvement, her interests include philosophy, the professionalisation of teaching and the destruction of ivory towers.

Reviews for School Staff Culture: Knowledge-building, Reflection and Action

"""Ruth skilfully embraces the complexity of school culture, steadfastly refusing to impose an artificial simplicity. By unpicking the components of culture, she provides school leaders with a way to think more meaningfully about the culture within their schools and how they might influence it."" Matt Burnage, Assistant Principal, Ark Soane Academy"