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Build A Learning Culture

Schools must create a learning culture by developing staff competencies and providing training. They must also ensure safe and disciplined learning environments through policies that address physical safety, bullying, and medical emergencies. Additionally, schools should establish goals and plans to provide a quality education and accountability. Suspension and expulsion policies also need careful consideration, as these actions can negatively impact students' futures and discourage school attendance. Equality policies are further necessary to prevent discrimination and ensure all students can access education. Finally, strong stakeholder involvement, including teachers, aids in comprehensive policy development.

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Build A Learning Culture

Schools must create a learning culture by developing staff competencies and providing training. They must also ensure safe and disciplined learning environments through policies that address physical safety, bullying, and medical emergencies. Additionally, schools should establish goals and plans to provide a quality education and accountability. Suspension and expulsion policies also need careful consideration, as these actions can negatively impact students' futures and discourage school attendance. Equality policies are further necessary to prevent discrimination and ensure all students can access education. Finally, strong stakeholder involvement, including teachers, aids in comprehensive policy development.

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Build a Learning Culture

Academics being the major service of a school, it is mandatory to create a learning


culture by encouraging the staff to continuously add to their knowledge. This includes
determining which capability each staff should acquire and creating a process for
updating it throughout the year. For example, a policy to have a staff competency matrix
and training need analysis for all staff must be completed before becoming eligible for
the appraisal. Initially each staff learning should include a checklist of tasks, such as
required training and development, work samples and formal learning instructions.

Safe Learning Environments


Students, teachers and staff members deserve to feel physically and psychologically
secure in their environment. Policies influence how safe individuals are in school. In
order to create this environment, guidelines need to be developed and reinstated that
establish safety standards for the physical environment and mental state of students
and staff. Disciplined rules have an effect on the safety of students and staff at school
level, therefore, procedures should extend beyond the classroom, frequency of fire
drills, anti-bullying, and how staff should respond during a medical emergency.
Setting Goals and Establishing Productivity
Students and teachers are the major customers of all the policies in a school.
Management should establish standard rules to guide acceptable behaviour, and help
create a conducive learning environment. All of these are necessary to help the
institution run smoothly to ensure that students receive a quality education. In order for
an institution to encourage higher learning, plans must be in place that establish goals
as set forth by the school management. This is important for relating education to the
community and making it responsible to the larger world. Accountability through the use
of goal-oriented policies ensures productivity – thus save time, prevent confusion and
unify the school.
Suspension and Expulsion
Although the law strictly disapproves it, the school should be very careful in determining
when a student should be suspended or expelled, because it can impact a child's future.
Although it is common to expel students for excessive violations of school rules, this is
not always a good option for dealing with behaviour problems. When a child is expelled,
he may lose his desire to continue attending traditional institution and quit. Suspension
policies can inadvertently discourage students from attending school, leading to a
lifetime of low-paying jobs or dependency of others. For this reason, it is important to
have policies that incorporate other solutions before resorting to suspension and
expulsion.
Equality
Equality in the schools is again determined by it’s policies. School must have guidelines
requiring acts of discrimination to be reported to their administrators and to be remedied
promptly. There are also rules in place to make sure that children with disabilities, or
slow-learners, receive the same access to an education as other students. This ensures
that everyone gets the opportunity to contribute to society and thrive economically.
Teacher Engagement
Another important thing is that policies on teacher training and engagement should
focus more on the professional continuum of teachers. Teacher engagement is the key
element for teacher retention, including teacher interventions, and their continuous
professional development all over their career – they are a whole and they are
interconnected. A proper workplace policy also aims to guide teaching and non-teaching
staff in how to perform in the school for various prohibited issues in – harassment,
internet use, health and safety, and social media are just a few.
Stakeholder involvement
Last but not the least, collaboration between all the stakeholders should be much larger.
It is extremely important that everyone is involved in the policy-making, that each
stakeholder has his/her role, and should be able to take that role into the process.
Schools should have well-documented and comprehensive policies and standard-
operating-procedures for all the internal and external stake holders.

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