Productive Climate Resources
School Climate and Shared Leadership
Summary
School climate reform, an evidence-based strategy, supports K-12 students, school personnel, parents/guardians and community members learning and working together to promote pro-social education. This National School Climate Center (NSCC) brief presents five strategies that lead to and sustain shared leadership in schools and address some of the challenges school leaders, teachers, students and community members may experience co-creating positive school climates.
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This policy brief can be used as a springboard for discussions by school leaders around strategies for encouraging, supporting and rewarding shared leadership. This School Climate Practice Brief is one of 11 briefs presenting the latest in research and best practice for effective school climate reform from leading experts. All School Climate Practice Briefs can be found at: https://schoolclimate.org/publications/school-climate-practice/
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Hughes, W., & Pickeral, T. (2013). School climate and shared leadership. School climate practice brief. National School Climate Center.
PBIS School-Climate Survey Suite Manual
Summary
The School Climate Survey Suite is a set of five multidimensional surveys designed to measure student, teacher, administrator, faculty, and family perceptions of school climate.
Additionally, underneath related resources, there is an 11-minute video from ThinkTVPBS which discusses the importance of creating and sustaining school and classroom climate. Developed in partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), this video is part of a series that provides practical applications for educators pursuing schoolwide SEL.
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The district might choose to survey students, teachers, administrators, and families in order to assess perceptions of school climate. Results can be analyzed to determine appropriate next steps. District and building leadership teams may also want to check out How are Schools Using the School Climate Surveys and How are Schools Using the Parent and Personnel School Climate Surveys both from the Center on PBIS for assistance in interpreting survey results.
District and building leadership teams and teacher teams might choose to individually complete the pre-viewing reflection questions and then view the video. Team might then choose to collectively review the post-viewing questions to determine next steps for creating and/or sustaining supportive school and classroom climates.
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Center on PBIS. (January 2022). School Climate Survey (SCS) Suite Manual. University of Oregon. www.pbis.org.
ThinkTVPBS. (2022, September 21). Supportive school and classroom climate| Schoolwide SEL [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_ed34oKwo&list=WL&index=1
Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment in our Nation’s Classrooms: Toolkit
Summary
Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment in Our Nation’s Classrooms is designed to support classroom teachers, other educators, and support personnel to reduce instances of bullying behavior and to build a supportive classroom climate in which bullying is less likely to occur.
This training toolkit is made up of two modules that address bullying in classrooms. Specifically, it is designed for trainers [building leaders or teacher leaders] to assist teachers in cultivating meaningful relationships with students while creating a positive climate in the classroom.
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District, building, teacher leaders and ISD personnel might use this toolkit and accompanying resources in order to provide educators with information on how to identify and effectively intervene when bullying occurs (including tips on de-escalation). Additionally, in the second module, educators are asked to consider effective strategies to build a classroom climate where bullying is less likely to occur.
This training toolkit was intentionally designed to be offered as a series. The content of each module complements and completes the content contained in the other module. It’s the belief of the toolkit design team that teachers and students alike are best served when BOTH modules are covered with teachers within a short time frame of one another. The time frame suggested for completion of both modules is 2.5 hours. The toolkit offers suggestions for managing time for training.
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Diamanti, K., Duffey, T., & Fisher, D. (2018). Creating a safe and respectful environment in our nation’s classrooms. Washington, DC: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments.