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Presents best practices among school districts for creating safe school climates.This presentation lists tools and initiatives used by schools to improve school climate, discusses challenges to implementing changes and their possible solutions, and finally, makes recommendations for getting started with program implementation.
Provides rules and strategies for successful development and administration of staff and family surveys on school climate. Uses lessons learned from “The Healthy Kids School Climate Survey” and surveys conducted by “New Teacher Center”.
Presents Social Marketing as a way of generating schools’ interest in making school climate improvements and recommends strategies for developing a campaign that is appealing and impactful. Includes audience insights, innovative approaches, and strategies to deliver the message.
Overviews Civil Rights Data Collection. Includes types of data currently collected along with details for how changes are tracked over time. This presentation also offers historical context, helping to situate current trends and policies.
Demonstrates the connections between school climate and academic outcomes as a means of championing and sustaining programs. Describes tips for selecting evaluation tools and offers considerations for presenting findings to various audiences in ways that strategically appeal to their interests.
Presents evidence and logic for school climate’s positive correlation with academic achievement. Examines evidence for and describes characteristics of the school climate variables of “Safety”, “Support, Care, and Connections”, “Challenge and Engagement”, and “Social Emotional Competency”.
Defines communities of practice as they pertain to sustaining school climate improvement programs. Discusses how these learning communities contribute to sustaining efforts, providing examples from the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk (NDTAC).
Discusses implementing programs that ensure school safety and academic success, covering what makes up Iowa's program as an example. Demonstrates Iowa's success via participation in standard LEA implementation activities and their Safe School Certification Program as well as via completing items on an implementation checklist.
Presents a step-by-step worksheet tool for making plans of sustainability within school climate improvement programs from the beginning of implementation. Includes background of planning tool, purpose of planning process, and an overview of the sustainability cycle
Describes guides, briefs, tools, and websites that support improvements in school climate. Includes guidance for programmatic intervention, measures, school climate (engagement, environment, and safety), and special populations.