FIELD NOTES

School culture is not a feeling. It's a system. And if you're leading a school right now, the health of your culture comes down to one thing: what you repeatedly do. Most leaders treat school culture improvement like motivation. They pump up staff at the start of the year. They create slogans. They hang values on walls. Then they wonder why nothing changes. The problem isn't the effort. The problem is the approach. Culture builds from patterns, not intentions. Research on org