We discovered that schools who created positive culture change and programmatic shifts in the past are reaping the rewards of that effort today. Each of the three positive patterns below reflects a school’s years-long investment in personnel development, culture building, and the development of a shared set of underlying assumptions.

1. The administration positioned professional development and student engagement in technology as an extension of learning tools, rather than ignoring technology or making it an end in itself.

2. The administration and teachers nurtured a deep relationship of trust and empathy with faculty and staff.

3. Parents, school leadership, and professional staff, nurtured a deep level of trust and empathy.