ABSTRACT
We must first decide whether to give change full service or just lip service.
School culture sometimes resembles the weather. Like the weather, we can complain about the school culture, we can protect ourselves against it, and we can often predict it. Also like the weather, we often feel helpless to do anything about a negative school culture. Unlike the weather; however, there are many examples of leaders who have effectively harnessed a school's culture and improved it immensely. The task of improving a school culture is huge, but it can be accomplished in much the same manner that one eats an elephant ... one bite at a time. Any undertaking, regardless of its size, appears less daunting if attacked systematically and incrementally. The following is a list of 14 items that we feel can assist any leader in developing and prioritizing a systematic and incremental approach to improving school cu 1ture.
