How Can Powerful School Culture Point Students Towards Success

How can Powerful School Culture Point Students Towards Success Student Name: Professor: Course Title: Date: How can Powerful School Culture Point Students towards Success Boston Prep was established in the year 2004. It graduated its initial senior class in 2011 and 100% of them got college acceptance letters. One specific idea that I can take from Boston Prep’s work to apply to my own school is character development. This is because character development at Boston Prep is the underpinning on which the success of students here is built. This school perceives character development as the soil wherein the learning of their students takes root. The mission of Boston Prep is to prepare its learners for college. The formula for this preparation entails providing an environment that is structured around personal growth and scholarship which serves to cultivate students’ virtues of integrity, compassion, courage, respect and perseverance (Sieder, 2012). Nearly all aspects of the school day at Boston Prep is centred on the aforementioned virtues, even the weekly ethics class where the learners in grades 6-12 get to learn about how philosophers like Rousseau, Aristotle and Plato understood the five virtues. The learners then utilize these perspectives in written reflections and class discussions to consider their own responsibilities and roles as learners at the school and also as community members and members of their own families (Sieder, 2012). Therefore, I will seek to apply character development in my school. This will involve creating a school environment that nurtures and promotes students’ virtues of integrity, compassion, courage, respect and perseverance among others. In addition, I will strive to develop an ethical philosophy course that will allow the students in my school to gain relevant exposure to early philosophers including Aristotle, Plato, and Rousseau. I had an experience with an educator who took a moral approach to the character education that they embodied in the class...