Day Four - Dr. Boone

Dr. Boone, Day four, Campus Leadership in Texas: The Effective Principal and New Voices in the Field. Topics of the day were the relationship of culture and climate, Maria's Story from New Voices and Campus Leadership in Texas.


The relationship between culture and climate. Culture is the foundation climate. You can change and impact the culture by changing the climate since culture is based on beliefs and are hard to get at. The climate can be changed in a variety of ways.


Maria's story was in the first chapter in Voices in the Field. Maria described her first year as an Assistant Principal. She described the many activities she experienced that she was not prepared for. Time seemed to disappear and was not manageable. Maria was also surprised at the many different situations she was not prepared to handle, either due to lack of experience, identity with the problem or lack of training.

Campus Leadership is Texas
We read and discussed the first Chapter in the book. Key ideas were the First 100 Days and three key questions to ask. The three key questions were:
What are the strengths of this school and community?
What are the opportunities for improvement? If you could change one thing immediately, what would it be?