We define a School Culture Leader as the individual who creates a strong, vibrant school culture in which students thrive. This role has many names: Dean of Students, Assistant Principal, a House or Hall Principal, Dean of Culture – it can be the job of Principal, herself. Whatever the name and structure it takes in a given school, the School Culture Leader’s (SCL) role is vital to student and teacher success. It entails ensuring that all classrooms have a strong foundation to enable rigorous and engaging academic instruction to thrive. The SCL’s role ensures that stakeholders experience and uphold a culture that is warm, supportive and inclusive.
Designed for July 2025
As schools work to define, establish and/or strengthen their schools’ culture in 2025, we are offering a series of remote sessions designed to build the capacity of School Culture Leaders, Deans, Assistant Principals and/or their managers to lead strong school culture.
Each session will be conducted via Zoom and includes pre-work, study of exemplar video, technique notes, practice activities to build capacity and post-session exercises to keep the learning alive. We will cap this workshop at 50 participants to maximize engagement and practice.
SERIES WILL INCLUDE:
- Insights into the effective application of techniques by school culture leaders
- Practice activities that will strengthen school culture leaders’ capacity to apply effective techniques in their schools
- The opportunity to plan how you will implement these techniques in your school’s professional development program
- Feedback during practice to help school culture leaders master the techniques
- Cohort building among school culture leaders to promote networking and future collaboration
WE WILL ANALYZE AND PRACTICE:
- Crucial culture-building moments that Deans own including: Public Deaning, Private Deaning, Communication and Systems and Routines
- Artifacts submitted by participants focused on culture building moments
SESSION SERIES DATES:
The session dates and times are as follows:
Session 1 – July 28, 2025, 2:00pm – 3:30pm (EST)
Session 2 – July 29, 2025, 2:00pm – 3:30pm (EST)
Session 3 – July 30, 2025, 2:00pm – 3:30pm (EST)
Session 4 – July 31, 2025, 2:00pm – 3:30pm (EST)
Session 5 – August 1, 2025, 2:00pm – 3:30pm (EST)
NOTE: Please be aware that this will be an interactive session for all participants. We will ask you to be visible on your cameras and to participate by discussing with colleagues, sharing responses (sometimes in writing) to videos and reflection questions, and practicing.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This workshop is for school culture leaders, deans, and other key personnel who shape and build school cultures.
In addition to our interactive learning sessions, cohort participants who choose to purchase the Implementation Toolkit can also expect the following resources:
- Access to a selection of session videos, PPTs, participant handouts, practice activities and our entire School Culture Leader/Deans PD implementation suite upon purchasing the licensing agreement. Please note: In order to protect privacy, some videos may not be shared as a part of your licensing agreement.
- Access to a selection of lessons from our Dean of Students Curriculum with a signed Pilot Partnership Agreement.
- Optional: 30-minute follow-up call to answer your questions or provide feedback on your ideas for implementation of the content back at your schools.
COST:
- Training Fee: $850 per person for the five 90-minute session ($200 non-refundable deposit due upon registration (deposit will be applied to the final invoice)
- Optional Implementation Toolkit: $1,000 (Upgrade/Renewal is $300.00 if you have previously purchased our School Culture Leader Cohort material)