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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Bildung
- Serie: Jon Gordon
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
National Bestseller
Drive Your School Culture to Success with The Energy Bus! Transform your school culture into a thriving and positive environment. In The Energy Bus for Schools: 7 Ways to Improve Your School Culture, Remove Negativity, Energize Your Teachers, and Empower Your Students, bestselling author Jon Gordon and education leader Dr. Jim Van Allan provide concrete strategies and powerful stories to help build a positive school culture. This book shares a unique approach and proven practices for reimagining schools and districts as collaborative places where students and staff create their culture and develop as leaders together.
The authors provide the blueprint and framework to create a positive campus culture including:
- Thriving during times of change
- Communication to strengthen relationships
- Proven strategies to empower staff and students
- Building a connected team
- Developing a positive mindset
- Implementing best practices to energize teachers and students
- Removing negativity that sabotages morale and culture
- Rediscovering the joy and excitement of being in education
This book is intended for superintendents, district and school leadership, teachers, counselors, and coaches who are looking to leave a positive legacy and impact everyone on campus. Join the movement with other visionary educators who have already transformed their schools into dynamic centers of learning and growth.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: 7 Steps to Improve Your School Culture
Chapter 2: Invite Your Staff on the Bus
No One Creates Success Alone
Inviting People on the Bus
Shared Experience
Share the Vision and Purpose
Inviting Your Leadership Team
Fun Ways to Invite Your Staff on the Bus
Chapter 3: Build a Positive Culture
Know What You Stand For
Set Expectations
Know Your Core Values
Bring Core Values to Life
The Symbolism of the Energy Bus
Consistency Creates Culture
Chapter 4: Fuel Your Ride with Positive Energy
Fuel Yourself
Optimism and Belief
Collective Teacher Efficacy
Fueling Staff
Fueling Students
Chapter 5: Love Your Passengers
Loving is Caring
Building Intentional Relationships
Social Glue
Loving Your Staff
Loving Your Students and Parents
Showing Love Through Collaboration and Communication
Intentional Listening
Nonverbal Communication
Strategic and Meaningful Interactions
The One‐on‐One Interaction
Chapter 6: Transform Negativity
The Energy Bus Transforms Negativity
Energy Vampires
It Starts at the Cultural Level
Transforming Our Students
No Bullying Allowed
Unmet Needs
Addressing the Negativity
Difficult Conversations
The No Complaining Rule
It's Just Too Positive Here
Chapter 7: Refuel, Reenergize, and Refocus with Purpose
There Will Be Days
Planting the Seed
Schools on a Mission Know Their Purpose
Gifts from the Past
Reinforcing the Purpose
Hire Purpose
Purpose Helps You Thrive during Change
Root Yourself in Purpose
Chapter 8: Create a Fleet of Bus Drivers
Measuring Staff Engagement and Unity
How Do You Really Know?
Families are a Part of the Fleet!
Creating Connection
What's Next?
Colleyville Middle School
The Best Is Yet to Come
What's Next for Your School or District?
1. Become a Certified Energy Bus School
2. Become a Certified Speaker/Trainer for the Energy Bus for Schools Program
3. Bring the Energy Bus to Your Campus with a Book Study and Speaking Engagement
4. Positive Educator Newsletter
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Other Books by Jon Gordon
The Energy Bus
The No Complaining Rule
Training Camp
The Shark and the Goldfish
Soup
The Seed
One Word
The Positive Dog
The Carpenter
The Hard Hat
You Win in the Locker Room First
Life Word
The Power of Positive Leadership
The Power of a Positive Team
The Coffee Bean
Stay Positive
The Garden
Relationship Grit
Stick Together
The Sale
The One Word Journal
How to Be a Coffee Bean
The One Truth
The Energy Bus for Kids
Thank You and Good Night
The Hard Hat for Kids
One Word for Kids
The Coffee Bean for Kids
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Introduction
Begin Reading
What's Next for Your Schoolor District?
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Other Books by Jon Gordon
Index
End User License Agreement
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7 Ways to Improve Your School Culture, Remove Negativity, Energize Your Teachers, and Empower Your Students
THE ENERGY BUS for SCHOOLS
JONGORDONBestselling Author of The Energy Bus
DR. JIMVAN ALLANPresident, Energy Bus for Schools
Copyright © 2024 by Jon Gordon. All rights reserved.
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Preface
The desire to be a speaker and impact the world has been a driving force my entire life. In fourth and fifth grade, I entered and won our school's 4‐H Public Speaking Contest with speeches about airplanes and then UFOs. In middle school, I gave an hour‐long presentation on Australia, dressed in full costume. In high school, I won state and national public speaking competitions with some speeches written the night before. While the preparation part may not have been strong in my teenage years, my love of speaking was apparent to everyone. I would watch the keynote speaker at various conferences and wonder how I could be that person. At 17, as part of a time capsule project, I wrote that I would become a traveling speaker. That vision drove me to pursue opportunities in college that would allow my love of speaking to become a career.
In 2006, at my public relations internship, I still made it clear I wanted to be a speaker. People working there had just seen a speaker in Jacksonville and told me I should reach out to him. The speaker's name was Jon Gordon. My school, the University of Florida (Go Gators!), was just 90 minutes from Jacksonville. I was hesitant to reach out at first because I had tried in the past to connect with other speakers via email (this was pre–social media) and received nothing in reply. However, I sat down in my little apartment and fired off an email that would be a defining moment in my life. I wrote that I always wanted to be a speaker and would love to learn from Jon and ask him questions. I assumed no one would respond.
I assumed wrong, because the next day I woke up to an email reply in my inbox and there it was: a message from Jon Gordon. He said he would love to help and gave me his cell phone number. I called him that day, and for the next two hours, we spoke about life, speaking, and future goals. Jon was already challenging me to be goal‐centered and create impactful messages. He offered me a handshake internship after the call. I hung up and celebrated in my room because my path had suddenly become very clear.
Soon after, Jon sent me an early version of a book he was getting published. I looked at the title on the Word document: The Energy Bus. We continued to work together on sales and marketing, and he offered me the opportunity to plan and manage his 30‐city Energy Bus book tour. He received a sponsorship from a magazine that wrapped his SUV in Energy Bus colors and logos, as he drove from city to city promoting the book.
At 21 years old, I had no clue what I was doing (sorry, Jon, but it's true!). I was very early into my public relations studies, but, with the help of our business manager, Daniel Decker, I learned very quickly how to market and get people to the events. I was able to join Jon on the tour for the Midwest swing from Houston to Austin to Oklahoma City to Kansas and then Nebraska and Iowa before returning to Florida. Jon got food poisoning and was sick between Kansas and Nebraska so I had to drive the SUV. I like to proudly call myself the first “Energy Bus Driver” because I was literally driving the Energy Bus on the tour. The tour had its ups and downs, but the book would explode on the scene in the coming years. If you are reading this book, there's a good chance you started with The Energy Bus at some point.
I have wanted to write a book since I met Jon in 2006. We all set goals for ourselves, and this was high on my list. I have worked primarily with schools since I met Jon and earned my PhD in educational leadership. For my dissertation, I studied the impact of an early version of the Energy Bus for Schools program in 2017. Energy Bus has been part of my life for almost two decades. From the first Energy Bus book tour, to writing my PhD dissertation, to working with hundreds of school leaders and educators and now leading our Energy Bus for Schools program, I know it was part of my life plan to write this book with Jon Gordon and share the 7 steps to energize your school culture. Just like I am living my dream now as a speaker and author, your dream culture is just ahead. I am excited and grateful you are looking to improve your school culture and making the Energy Bus part of that process. Thank you for riding this bus.
—Dr. Jim Van Allan
Introduction
If you picked up this book and have not read The Energy Bus first, the following is a short description of what that book is all about.
It's Monday morning and George walks out the front door to his car and a flat tire. But this is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big new product launch coming up in two weeks, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work, George meets a unique kind of bus driver and an interesting set of characters (passengers) that over the course of two weeks share the 10 rules for the ride of his life—and attempt to help him turn around his work and team and save his job and marriage from almost inevitable destruction.
The Energy Bus has now gone on to sell over three million copies worldwide since it was published in 2007. Many schools nationwide have used The Energy Bus in various forms for a book study, workshop, keynote, and most powerfully through our Certified Energy Bus for Schools program. It's a transformative book that gives readers a roadmap for how to overcome negativity in their work and lives. No one goes through life untested, but the answer is to always stay positive with a spirit of vision, trust, and optimism. The Energy Bus is a story that educators find relevant to their situation, no matter when or why they read it. It's a book that has inspired our school‐based program and led to this new book. We encourage you to read the original The Energy Bus book at some point and continue to create the best ride of your life!
Chapter 17 Steps to Improve Your School Culture
It’s an ongoing process to improve your school culture. School leaders should always look for ways to improve, retool, and grow as time goes on. This is a process that involves multiple steps and a lot of intentionality and purpose. The process to improve your school culture begins with inviting your staff on the bus.
Set the vision for the school and invite them to be part of it. Encourage them to join you on the Energy Bus. The team is the star when it comes to making a school vision a reality. It will take a group effort, and people need to be invited to be part of it.
Once the team is on the bus, your vision can be realized. The next step is building a positive culture. Everyone in the building understands they are part of the culture, and they help create it. The Energy Bus principles provide pillars of strength that help you build your foundation. These principles mean something to each person and act as a unifying agent. Staff and students now have a common language and go through a common experience that creates a common bond. The Energy Bus truly helps you create a positive and strong school culture.
The next step in improvement is to fuel your ride with positive energy. Mindset and mentality are two driving factors in staff, students, and school leadership. The Energy Bus teaches everyone how to develop a positive mindset and perspective and how to fuel themselves and others with positivity. This will create resilience in the face of challenges, change, and negativity. This also improves morale and performance in a big way!
With your vision set and positive mindset in place, it's important to realize that schools are in the positive people business. Human beings need to be nurtured, loved, guided, supported, and encouraged. In a high‐pressure career like education, the next step in improving school culture is to love your passengers so your staff and students want to be “on the bus”, feel like they are part of the process and share love along the way. This is all about finding unique ways to show love to students and staff, which helps them to build strong relationships in the process. We share many great ideas in this book.
No matter how much love and unity you have, negativity will still find a way in. In order to improve a school culture, school leaders and staff cannot be afraid to confront negativity and work to transform it. Negativity, whining, gossiping, and complaining will not go away without precaution and intervention strategies. A strategic plan with a positive campus culture will help school leaders looking to manage negativity and turn it into positive energy. We look forward to sharing many ideas with you in this book.
Once negativity has been transformed and more people are on the bus, it's time to refuel, reenergize, and refocus your passengers. It's all about purpose which is the ultimate fuel for a positive campus culture and is essential in avoiding burnout. Knowing your why and understanding how it helps enhance a positive campus culture is key. When you face tough times, refocusing your staff and students on their purpose and positive mindset will help them to become resilient and productive problem‐solvers and communicators.
In the end, the process to improve your school culture is about bringing people together with a shared mission. The goal is to create a fleet of bus drivers. This fleet will do amazing and inspiring things on campus. The fleet will also take the positive messages into their communities and into the lives of your staff and students’ families. Everyone connected to this fleet of bus drivers will be positively impacted.
The rest of the book explores the 7 steps in greater detail:
Invite Your Staff on the Bus
Build a Positive Culture
Fuel Your Ride with Positive Energy
Love Your Passengers
Transform Negativity
Refuel, Reenergize, and Refocus with Purpose
Create a Fleet of Bus Drivers
Get ready to improve your school culture with real stories, turnkey strategies, best practices, and research as you enjoy the ride of your life!
Chapter 2Invite Your Staff on the Bus
“Remember, you're driving the bus, George,” Joy said. “But as you drive you want to keep asking people to get on. The worst they can say is no. If you don't ask, they won't know to get on. Plus, the more people you pick up along the way, the more energy you create during your ride. The goal is to eventually have a standing room only bus and since this is an energy bus it is always expanding so you'll always be able to add more people.”
—The Energy Bus, page 56
We are often asked to define the key to a successful school, the kind of school where every teacher wants to teach and every parent wants to send their kids. The simple answer is culture.
It's easy to diagnose a school's culture when we walk through the entrance for a training. What feeling do we get as outsiders coming into the school? Are there friendly faces to greet us in the office and show us where to go? Do we see bulletin boards of the Energy Bus or other positive messages on walls made by teachers immensely more creative than us? Can we imagine our own children attending this school? Culture is not one thing; it is everything and it requires everyone. To build a great culture you must invite your team on the bus and get them to work as a team.
