Conflicts in Culture: Strategies to Understand and Resolve the Issues

Sandy Harris and Steve Jenkins have created a very useful guide for navigating through the multifaceted issues of school culture. Substantive school improvement depends on addressing a culture that is often complex and intricate. Conflicts in Culture: Strategies to Understand and Resolve the Issues will provide you with useful information, an informed perspective, and successful strategies for addressing school culture.

The authors remind us that courage is a requirement for great leaders and the willingness to act when faced with uncomfortable situations is a reflection of leadership. This book offers leaders real-life scenarios and activities that will provide a road map of strategies and direction down the often-uncomfortable “cultural highway”. With the challenges of today’s fast changing demographics across our nation’s schools Harris and Jenkins provide a lifeline for practitioners as their book captures and reveals the essential tools to lead a district or campus to cultural community.