Stories are the most

Stories are the most powerful tool of any culture.
We can use the strength of stories, our story, to sustain our efforts to improve NHKS.

There are so many great things I am discovering about this school!!!

We have to be able to tell the true and viable positive stories about the culture, attitudes, and beliefs of NHKS to ourselves and others.

• The story we tell explains what the mission, vision, beliefs, and values are, as well as the way team players interact, how decisions are reached, and how goals are addressed by the school culture.


• The story we tell must be true, believable, and demonstrable.


• The strength of the story is that it is at once, true and self-fulfilling (every day, in every way, we are getting better, better, and better.)


• The story must be told, retold, and made more and more true each day.


• The story must not be undermined by contradictory stories.

Counterexamples (negative events) will always occur. These must not fuel negative self-talk or “lounge-talk”, but must fuel correction and the strength of the story itself.

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