School culture observations

Seeing the difference in school cultures between a small middle school to a large high school is such a different experience. The school culture at Mount Vernon was one that was a lot smaller but a very tight knot community. The students all knew one another and there was just a very bug sense of comfort and understanding between these students that thew me off when I first for there. I went to a small school as well and had the same feeling but these students would mess around with one another all the time. The culture of this school with faculty was one I haven't been involved in yet. We had a grade level team which was new to me and the cultures within these level teams was different between grade levels which surprised me. They would do a potluck each quarter for all the staff which I thought was really a fun thing to be involved in.

At Linn Mar this community is a 180 with school size and students not all knowing one another but theyare still a very closecommunity it feels like. All the students in my classes at least tend to get along and students are involved in almost anything they can be it seems. The staff culture is one that is new to me also becuase the staff size is so huge with 17 people in the English department. Its a very interesting thing to be involved in because I feel like I have seen the principal more then I have seen the other English staff with us being on the other part of the building then the rest of the English staff.