Norms and agreements: foundational to your learning culture

A new school year offers the perfect opportunity to revisit, reflect on, and review your school’s current norms and values. This is particularly important when you have new team members, to involve and uncover their thinking for common understandings and shared commitment.

In this blog we offer two practical strategies to involve all staff in this:

• Strategy one:?Observe and enhance existing norms, shows you how to bring school team norms back to the front of people’s minds at the start of the year in a meaningful way.
• Strategy two:?Revisit, reflect and review norms models?an active process that fosters in depth reflection, analysis, and review of existing norms to ensure currency for the new school year.

Each strategy is designed to achieve a different purpose so that you can select the one that best fits your needs.

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