The aim of this study is to describe the learning environment of the pupils and the learning environment of the teachers and to investigate if there is anything that indicates a relationship between them. The study is a case study of three Swedish secondary schools. A survey is used with a focus on the school as a learning organization, the school culture in a learning perspective and student activity based instructional patterns. The results show that schools are different and the instructional patterns differ. In one of the schools the teachers pay more attention to the formal characteristics of student activity based instructional patterns than the inner learning process. In another school the teachers pay more attention to the inner learning process and seem to see the formal characteristics as a consequence of this. In the third school there is not much of student activity based instructional patterns at all. The results also indicate that there is a relationship between the learning environment of the teachers and the learning environment of the pupils. The three studied cultures, the self-developing culture, the seeking culture and the split culture are related to the instructional pattern in the studied schools. It would be interesting to study other schools to test the instrument and to repeat the study in a few years as changes take time.