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Front office needs a makeover! Furniture.

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Culture needs to be inviting and excepting. We have to change how we think, act and interact with children.

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Some classroom/behavioral management professional development. Work on keeping the kids constantly engaged, give students choice in direction of learning. Consider Responsive Classroom" as a school wide technique. Remembering why you became a teacher to begin with.

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we want to work in a positive happy place, go to the happy place :)

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That we deserve the grade we've gotten on the State Report card.

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we need to build each other up, share ideas and positive feelings, stop talking about each other negatively, stop being childish

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We want a positive place for learning to take place. Encouraging, motivating, less negativity. Staff needs to have better interactions with each other and students. Learn to love the kids regardless of their behaviors.

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negative feelings, hostility even within adult population

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Nurturing with high expectations.

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We would like our school culture to be driven by love supported by discipline. We think that discipline has been misunderstood and implemented in a way that doesn't reveal the heart/intention of the teacher.

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Culture is the perception someone has when they enter our school.

Our culture is negative. We need more praise and positives.

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While some teachers focus on positive, not all do. Not as healthy as needed. Negative perceptions and attitudes. More teacher focused rather than student focused. More reactive than proactive.

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The interactions between staff and students as well as within staff, including values, dispositions, expectations, and efficacy.

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School culture is the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape and influence every aspect of how a school functions, but the term also encompasses more concrete issues such as the physical and emotional safety of students, the orderliness of classrooms and public spaces, or the degree to which a school embraces and celebrates racial, ethnic, or cultural diversity.

Our Culture: Well... let's just say its not most of the above.

Perception: Depends who the audience is. To a nurturing parent, we are probably more negative. To most of our parents we are nurturing because we provide that piece they lack... the one who talks and reads with them and really gets to know them. To professional colleagues, um...probably not a good perception, even appalling at times.

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Angry and bullying from both students and staff. Aggressive and attention getting behavior.

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The behaviors and standards deemed acceptable to a particular learning group.

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School culture is basically the atmosphere within the building

Our school culture lacks a sense of comradery.

Perceptions of our school: Parents= positive perceptions; Others in the community= negative perceptions based on the area of gaston county

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Atmosphere of learning that encourages students development of social and academic development. 

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Atmosphere of learning that encourages students development of social and academic development. 

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Our Culture- the feeling you get when entering the school campus. It can be a welcoming and inviting

environment.

grass to your knees, sticky floors, Main hallway clean, nice buildings, weeds,

receptionist is friendly, no updated awards/ plaques, raised voices.

We want a warm and inviting school culture.

How? Break up cliques, some teachers need to share!, staff to be more professional.

No Cork strip for the end of C hall classrooms

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What does school culture mean?

Describe our school culture?

Describe the perceptions of our school.

Are they the same? Why? Why not?

What type of school culture do we want? Why is it important?

How do we go about getting it? Specific steps?

What can EACH of us do to support and implement our new culture?

Lingerfeldt Elementary School's culture will be...........