Kent Peterson
Professor of Education Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on the importance of positive school culture
Dr. Kent Peterson, Professor of Education Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, visited Houston on October 30, 2009, for a full-day private workshop with aspiring principals in Houston A+ Challenge's Regional Principal Leadership Academy.
In this interview, Houston A+ Challenge asks Dr. Peterson the following questions:
- What is school culture? How can a new principal quickly assess and positively impact school culture?
- Why is it so important that the adults in the school building work well together, especially when they are trying to improve the school?
- How can a principal turn around a toxic school culture?
- How have rising expectations for schools changed school culture – not just in the classroom, but schoolwide?
- How do you see the A+ Principal Academy helping to build stronger school leaders for the Houston region?
