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| Format: | Recurso digital |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Zenodo
2023
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| Accès en ligne: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8176253 |
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- <p>This research aims to improve school culture by increasing relationship-building, learning, and collaboration. The setting is a faculty meeting space because, traditionally, faculty meetings are uninspired places with one-way communication, passive participation, and disconnected from the work of teachers. Faculty meetings structured using a protocol for increasing relationship-building, learning, and collaboration will improve school culture. A positive school culture supports schools in achieving transformational outcomes. School leaders face incredible challenges, ranging from responding to student learning gaps and equity challenges to being limited in the resources available for changing schools to meet the demands. This research is important because it applies a new approach to faculty meetings that is easy to implement, uses existing resources, and supports reflection and learning for teachers.</p> <p>This study used improvement science as a research approach to improve faculty meetings and, in turn, school culture. Improvement science prioritizes understanding systems and engaging in iterative cycles, or Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. The qualitative data was collected and analyzed through a narrative process that connected the data from three distinct PDSA cycles to find themes. The findings are that teachers appreciate the structure because it allows them to connect, have fun, move, and interact with more people in different ways. The significance is that learning should reflect party-like outcomes, which include joy, fun, and a purpose for being together. By transforming what meetings look and feel like, schools can use collaboration and strong relationships as a foundation for changing systems. School transformation is highly probable and achievable when school culture is grounded in strong relationships and a commitment to learning as a school.</p>