Changing Culture and Climate in Secondary Schools: An Experimental Study

• In Event: 52.084 - Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: 52.084-15 - Factors Affecting School Culture

Abstract

This was a four year experimental study to determine if an integrated approach to changing secondary school culture from a more competitive, solitary, extrinsic environment to a more collaborative, caring, intrinsic environment could be accomplished in four years? And, whether or not this change in school culture would create a more inclusive, win-win school climate resulting in improved student test results and pro-social behavior? The results demonstrated that through an integrated school-community approach change in secondary school status quo can be accomplished with improvements in communication arts test results and student pro-social behavior including a marked decrease in bullying types of behavior.

Author

• Jon C. Marshall, Marshall Consulting