Creating Positive School Culture: Practices and Challenges In The Case Of Secondary Schools of Ambo Woreda of West Shoa Zone

Abstract

The study was conducted to assess Practice and challenges of school leaders in creating positive school culture in secondary schools of Ambo woreda of west shoa zone. In order to achieve the objective of the study, mixed research design was adopted. All (57) schools teachers, principals and supervisors used census sampling technique. Both primary and secondary data were collected via questionnaire and interview. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive methods. Findings of the study discovered that Woreda education office support, inadequate financial support, uninspiring environment for teachers and students, extreme interventions of external bodies and lack of conducive school physical environment were identified as the external factors that deter the practices of creating positive school culture. In this manner, the school leaders and other concerned bodies accountable to propose the way by which these factors were curtailed. The result of the study unveiled that absence of providing adequate induction programs, shortage of rewards and incentives were among the school related factors that hamper the practices of creating school culture. Hence, school leaders responsible to provide induction training for new entrants, and it is better if the employees were rewarded as per their deeds.