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Culture shared by all school stakeholders makes the actualization of both short-and long-term objectives easier. In this context, the best practices for shaping school culture for professional educators are personal mastery, team learning, and building a shared vision (Hall & Hord, 2015) . Instructional leaders can use school culture as a tool to influence and lead by establishing coordination among employees, having a direct impact on student achievement.  \nKeywords: school culture, transformational leadership, personal mastery, team learning, shared vision  \nOrganizational productivity is affected by individual staff members’productivity. Hall and Hord (2015) found most organizations are encouraged to remain open to the creative talents of their members and to the implementation of innovations and improvements best serving their clients. These expectations are assumed to be true for schools as well as the corporate sector. Those studying workplace cultures of both schools and businesses have identified important messages for school improvement (Hall & Hord, 2015) . However, school culture has a major impact on instructional leaders as it relates to student achievement.  \nHall and Hord (2015) identified factors describing school organizational cultures supporting the current, and likely the future, demands on schools to change. Therefore, Hall and Hord recognized the best practices for shaping school culture for instructional leaders are: personal mastery, team learning, and building a shared vision. Personal mastery is the practice of continually clarifying and making personal vision more precise-identifying what each individual wants in his or her personal participation in the organization. Team learning is the activity of coming together to discuss and to learn with and from each other. Developing team-learning skills involves each individual balancing his or her own goals and advocacy to achieve collaborative decision making serving the well-being of all (Hall & Hord, 2015) . Finally, building a shared vision which is the construction of compelling images shared by the organization’s members and focused on what the organization wants to create (Hall & Hord, 2015). These shared pictures of the future foster a prodigious culture.  \nPersonal Mastery  \nSchool climate generally is defined as the collective sentiments of individuals within a school in regard to a variety of school contextual factors. Lynch, Lerner, and Leventhal (2013) found theorists have conceptualized school climate as the aggregated perceptions of individuals within a school in regard to achievement, treatment of students, student–teacher relationships, school safety, and quality of the school environment. Lynch, Lerner, and Leventhal (2013) link aspects of school climate to a variety of student outcomes, ranging from academic outcomes to engagement in bullying and delinquent behaviors. For example, Lynch et al.,(2013) considered the links among collective perceptions of student violence and hostility and school engagement. Lynch et al. (2013) found collective perceptions of negative school climate (defined as perceptions of unfairness, hostility, and victimization) were associated with low school engagement among students. Schools where adolescents perceived high levels of hostility were more likely to have students who were less engaged than schools where adolescents felt students were less hostile. Therefore, school-wide perceptions of hostility also were negatively associated with students’ reading achievement scores. 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