May/June 2015

8 Dimensions of School Climate

This issue of Focus On provides educators with links to the latest information and resources on school climate, one of the funding priorities of LCFF. Successful approaches to improving school climate include:.

Student Learning Environments
Motivation & Connectedness
Developmental Supports & Opportunities
Respect for Diversity, Instructional Equity & Cultural Sensitivity
Student Safety & Problem Behaviors
Organizational Supports
Physical Environments & Wellness
Staff Working Environment

SOURCE: California Safe and Supportive Schools

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Past Issues Archives

LCAP and School Climate in California

Analysis of School Climate Priority in Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) for California's 50 Largest School Districts

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, January 2015

Climate for Achievement, Issue 1

CSBA Governance Briefs, March 2015

Climate for Achievement, Issue 2

CSBA Governance Briefs, April 2015

Guidance on Addressing School Climate & Use of School Climate Surveys in LCAP

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Partnership for Children & Youth, and Children Now

Improving School Climate & Academic Achievement in California

California Safe and Supportive Schools

School Climate, Health & Learning; California Survey System

WestEd

(Includes the California Healthy Kids Survey, the California School Climate Survey, and the California School Parent Survey)

Recent Research Reports

Climate Connection Toolkit

WestEd and California Department of Education, 2014

A Climate for Academic Success: How School Climate Distinguishes Schools That Are Beating the Achievement Odds (Report Summary)

WestEd, 2013

Importance of School Climate [Research Brief]

National Education Association, 2013

Making Sense of School Climate

California Safe and Supportive Schools, 2011

National School Climate Standards

National School Climate Center, 2010

The New "Separate and Unequal": Using California's Local Control Funding Formula to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

The Labor/Community Strategy Center & Black Organizing Project, March 2014

Restorative Practices: Fostering Healthy Relationships & Promoting Positive Discipline in Schools

Advancement Project, AFT, NEA & National Opportunity to Learn, March 2014

The School Climate Challenge

National School Climate Center, 2007

What Works Briefs (11 research-based summaries)

California Safe and Supportive Schools

Workbook for Improving School Climate

WestEd, 2012

Web Portals of Resources

Culture & Climate

California Department of Education

California Safe and Supportive Schools

WestEd

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

National School Climate Center

PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports)

Office of Special Education Programs

Safe Supportive Learning

U.S. Department of Education

School Climate 2.0

Cyberbullying Research Center

Social and Emotional Learning

Edutopia

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