School Work Culture Profile – SWCP

Instructional programs are guided by learning objectives.

Instructional programs facilitate student mastery of learning objectives.

Classroom organization and activities facilitate student learning.

Students are provided sufficient time to succeed in learning tasks.

Parents serve as a resource to the school’s instructional program.

The school’s leadership team helps work groups to succeed.

The staff development program builds the school’s capacity to solve problems.

Staff development programs provide opportunities to learn new knowledge.

Staff development programs provide opportunities to practice newly learned skills.

Staff members have opportunities to develop skills for working successfully in a group or team.

Supervision of teaching is based on cooperatively identified goals and emerging needs.

Supervision builds and maintains professional self-esteem.

Work groups of all types are assessed on their contribution to the achievement of school development goals.

School assessment is based on school development goals.

Work groups are assessed on the extent to which their goals are achieved, and the extent to which they respond to emerging challenges.

Individual staff members are assessed on their contribution to the school’s development goals.

Periodic feedback from sources outside the school is used to modify work practices and programs.

Student achievement is assessed in relation to the school’s development goals, and to emerging challenges and needs.