27 Apr 2017
Video

Long Story Short: What Can Districts and Schools Do to Improve School Climate?

School climate reflects how members of a school community experience their environment. In this video, Greta Colombi discusses how to identify and measure the many factors that affect conditions for learning and her work to improve school climate through the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, which is funded through the U.S. Department of Education.

What Can Districts and Schools Do to Improve School Climate? from American Institutes for Research on Vimeo.

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Related Centers

Center

National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments provides a range of resources and expertise on emotional and physical safety, bullying, cyberbullying, substance use prevention, crisis response, and building trauma-sensitive schools. AIR has developed several guides and training products to support stakeholders in building and promoting safe and supportive learning environments.

Related Work

31 Aug 2015
Report

Advancing School Discipline Reform

During the past two decades, there has been an increase in exclusionary and punitive discipline in US schools. These disciplinary approaches have been discriminatory in their impacts and have failed to improve school safety. Luckily, a growing body of evidence shows that changing discipline policies and practices can improve school climate and student achievement. This report focuses on how to address students’ behavioral issues while enabling them to succeed.
Topic: 
Social and Emotional Learning, Education, School Climate and Safety, School Discipline
1 Jan 2017
ESSA

ESSA │School Climate and Safety

Many factors affect school climate and safety, determining the conditions for learning and teaching. By managing engagement, safety, and a supportive learning environment properly, schools at all levels can grow stronger. AIR has developed toolkits and resources to support educators in their efforts to transform school climate and improve safety in our nation’s schools.
Topic: 
Education, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), School Climate and Safety, School Discipline, Social and Emotional Learning
6 Oct 2016
The Ten Series

Creating Healthy Schools: Ten Key Ideas for the SEL and School Climate Community

Healthy schools and supportive school environments provide connection, support, engagement, and physical and emotional safety, as well as access to social networks and resources for students. This brief, which evolved from a larger project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, outlines the central principles needed to support students in an equitable, collaborative, and healthy environment.
Topic: 
Education, School Climate and Safety, Social and Emotional Learning

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