Northwest Sampler

The following Northwest Sampler profiles two Oregon schools that identified trust-building as an important goal. The first, Portland’s Whitaker Middle School, recognized lack of trust among staff members as a major obstacle to school improvement and worked successfully to improve it. The second school, Beaverton’s Southridge High School, viewed relationship-building as central to establishing norms of collaboration, shared leadership, and shared decisionmaking among an entirely new staff in a new school.