Cultivating a positive school culture in a secondary school setting: The principal’s role

There is a growing body of research concerning the important role of the school principal in cultivating a positive school culture. School culture influences all happenings in a school and therefore impacts on a school community and on an individual’s behaviour, expectations and interactions with others. It follows that cultivating and sustaining a positive school culture should be one of the highest priorities for all school principals. However, in the Australian context there is limited research that has examined the principal’s role in cultivating a positive school culture.