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Transforming School Culture Author: Anthony Muhammad

ISBN: 9781934009451 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 130 Published: 17 February 2009 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 15.4 x 0.9 Description: The goal of Transforming School Culture is to provide a framework for understanding how school cultures operate and how leaders can overcome staff division to improve relationships and transform toxic cultures into healthy ones with the ultimate goal of improved learning for all students.

Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must examine and understand educators' motivation for hanging on to paradigms that are contrary to those articulated by their school or district. In this book, Dr. Muhammad explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history.

Drawing upon his study of 34 schools (11 elementary, 14 middle, and 9 high schools) from around the country, Dr. Muhammad describes the underlying tensions that impact culture among four different groups of educators in a school. Much of the book is devoted to introducing readers to these groups:

[[The Believers are those who are committed to the learning of each student and who operate under the assumption that their efforts can make an enormous difference in that learning.

[[The Fundamentalists are preservers of the status quo.

[[The Tweeners ...

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