Committing to the Culture: How Leaders Can Create and Sustain Positive Schools

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In their follow-up to School Culture Recharged and the best-selling School Culture Rewired, Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker go deep into the roots of culture change and explore how school leaders can positively shift their cultures in a sustainable way.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Culture

Toxic School Cultures: How They Get That Way and Stay That Way

Building a Trust-Based Culture

Sustaining Culture Change

About the authors

Steve Gruenert is a professor of educational leadership and chair of the educational leadership department at Indiana State University. He has studied organizational culture and climate for more than 20 years and continues to learn and collaborate with other researchers as these concepts evolve.

Gruenert researches and publishes on the topics of leadership and organizational culture. He is the coauthor of School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It and Minds Unleashed: How Principals Can Lead the Right-Brained Way.

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Todd Whitaker has been fortunate to be able to blend his passion with his career. He is a leading presenter in the field of education and a professor of educational leadership at the University of Missouri and professor emeritus at Indiana State University.

He has spent his life pursuing his love of education by researching and studying effective teachers and principals. A leading authority on staff motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness, Whitaker has written over 50 books including School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It, which he coauthored with Steve Gruenert, as well as the national bestseller, What Great Teachers Do Differently. He has previously served as both a teacher and a principal.