School Staff Culture by Ruth Ashbee
A powerful school culture can unite staff, shape positive behaviours, and create conditions for the staff body to work as one. This book explores how schools can develop a culture where individuals take pride in their work and actively seek and embrace development, seeing the big picture of the school and cherishing their role in it."Ruth skilfully embraces the complexity of school culture, steadfastly refusing to impose an artificial simplicityBy 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
"At a time when the teaching profession is facing great uncertainties in recruitment and retention, this book comes as an incredibly powerful guide to developing an effective culture in schools. Filled with valuable insights from the author’s own experience in leadership and heavily informed by evidence, School Staff Culture is a must-read for leaders committed to securing an ethos in schools where everyone can flourish."
Andrew Percival, Deputy Headteacher, Stanley Road School, Oldham
"Schools, as with other institutions, seem to exist in two tracks. The first track is physically what happens day to day - the lessons that have been taught, the homeworks that have been set, the conversations in the playground and the like. These items are observable and easily understood. We can watch our colleagues doing them, give feedback and learn how to do them better ourselves. The second track is harder to spot: it's a track that underpins all of these activities and interactions, it determines why, beyond its observable features, the same activity might work in one scenario but not in another. This track is often called "culture", and its quality can dictate a school's path to success or ruin. Despite culture's importance, observing, defining and improving it is an extremely tricky task. As with her earlier works on curriculum, in this book Ashbee continues to demystify and deconstruct weighty and challenging ideas, this time focusing on the elusive "culture." School Staff Culture is insightful, rigorous and fascinating, but perhaps more importantly it's useful, and a must-read for any teacher or leader interested in improving their school's culture."
Adam Boxer
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032121963 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032121963 |
| Title | School Staff Culture |
| Author | Ruth Ashbee |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 126 |
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