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School and District Administrators |
District and school administrators play an important role in improving conditions for learning, which includes school safety, school environment, and school engagement. The following products, research articles and briefs, and tools help administrators understand the various aspects of a safe and healthy school environment, provide guidance on how to assess the conditions in their district and schools, and share strategies to enhance conditions for learning and school connectedness.
Featured Resource(s):
Building Supportive Relationships As A Foundation for Learning, from Youth in the Middle
Describes four areas of work that are central to developing a whole-school youth development approach and includes hyperlinks to tools that can be modified and adapted to support efforts to pursue a youth development approach in a particular setting.
Human Trafficking of Children in the United States: A Fact Sheet for Schools
Developed for those working in school settings and provides an overview of human trafficking, how it affects schools, tips for identifying victims, and steps for reporting human trafficking.
School Connectedness: Improving Students' Lives
Defines and describes the components of school connectedness and identifies specific actions that schools can take to increase school connectedness.
2010 CHIPRA Annual Report: Connecting Kids to Coverage
Reviews federal and state activities over the course of the two years since CHIPRA was enacted to bring the nation closer to ensuring that all children in America have health coverage and notes some of the plans for continued and enhanced activities in 2011.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Facing Facebook
Encourages schools’ use of social media services like Facebook as a new channel for two way conversation between school staff and students, family members, or community members that will promote involvement, and also, as a way for school staff and officials to become promptly aware of any concerns community members are discussing and address them quickly. Provides guidelines for how school staff and officials should use social media like Facebook and what behaviors should be avoided.
2012 National Drug Control Strategy
Provides a blueprint for reducing illicit drug use and its harmful consequences in America that includes effforts to be undertaken by Federal agencies in partnership with state, local, tribal, and international counterparts to prevent illicit drug use in our communities; intervene early
in the health care system; strengthen drug treatment services and support the millions of Americans in recovery; break the cycle of drug use, crime, and incarceration; disrupt domestic drug production and trafficking; strengthen international partnerships; and improve drug-related information systems.
Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act for Elementary and Secondary Schools
Discusses, according to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, under what emergency situations it is acceptable, for safety reasons, that a school override the "written consent" requirement.
Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention — A Sourcebook for Community Action
Looks at the effectiveness of specific violence prevention practices in four key areas: parents and families; home visiting; social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring; documents the science behind each best practice and offers a comprehensive directory of resources for more information about programs that have used these practices.
Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model, Second Edition
Provides guidance on how communities can best address an existing or emerging youth gang problem.
Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Discusses the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), which measured the exposure to violence for children across several major categories: conventional crime, child maltreatment, victimization by peers and siblings, sexual victimization, witnessing and indirect victimization (including exposure to community violence and family violence), school violence and threats, and Internet victimization.
Civil Rights Data Collection: 2009-10 Data Summary Report
Summarizes analysis of equity and educational opportunities between various ethnicities in public schools with attention to Resource Equity, College and Career Readiness, and Discipline.
Clean School Bus USA
Provides information on how to reduce children’s exposure to diesel exhaust and the amount of air pollution created by diesel school buses.
Climate Change: What You Can Do At School
Presents suggestions about how students, educators and school administrators can all play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment
Offers a foundation for understanding child maltreatment and the roles and responsibilities of various practitioners in its prevention, identification, investigation, and treatment.
Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools: An Action Guide
Helps school and community leaders, parents, and students develop a strategy to ensure safe schools in their communities with action steps for schools, parents, students, and community and business groups; information briefs on specific issues affecting school safety; and research and evaluation findings, a list of resources, and additional readings.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010
Provides evidence-based nutrition information and advice for people age 2 and older. Serves as the basis for Federal food and nutrition education programs.
Drinking Water in Schools & Child Care Facilities Program
Provides information about lead in drinking water.
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
Offers research-based practices designed to assist school communities identify these warning signs early and develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans.
Educator's Guide to the Military Child During Deployment
Informs educators about the impact of deployment on military families and to provide them with strategies of overcoming the challenges their students face.
Effects and Consequences of Underage Drinking
Presents findings from a literature review that investigated how underage drinking can affect a youth’s physical, emotional, and neurological health. Discusses the personal, legal, and economic consequences of underage drinking.
Electronic Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers
Summarizes what is known about young people and electronic aggression and discusses the implications of these findings for school staff, educational policy makers, and caregivers.
Environmental Education Portal for Educational Resources
Provides lesson plans, materials, and other information to facilitate the teaching of students about environmental issues, including awards, grants, and training opportunities.
Evaluation Brief: The Carol M. White Physical Education Program Project Implementation During Year 1 of the Grant
Provides information on the implementation of PEP (the Carol M. White Physical Education Program), focused on developing high-quality physical education programs, creating an environment supportive of physical activity, and encouraging healthy eating habits and good nutrition.
Family Skills Training for Parents and Children
Features the Strengthening Families Program, reflecting research that indicates that the most effective interventions build parent, child, and family skills.
Federal Resources on Missing and Exploited Children: A Directory for Law Enforcement and Other Public and Private Agencies Sixth Edition
Describes the federal services, programs, publications, and training sessions that address child sexual exploitation issues, child pornography, child abduction, Internet crime, and missing children cases.
Food-Safe Schools Action Guide
Helps schools identify gaps in food safety and develop an action plan for becoming food-safe; includes individual critical recommendations on what key school staff and community members can do to prevent food borne illness.
Forum Guide to Crime, Violence, and Discipline Incident Data
Offers guidance on improving the effectiveness of efforts to collect and use disciplinary incident data, including reporting accurate and timely incident data to the federal government. Provides recommendations on what types of data to collect, why it is critical to collect such data, and how to implement and manage an incident database.
Fostering School Connectedness: Improving Student Health and Academic Achievement
Answers questions about school connectedness and identifies strategies school districts and administrators can use to foster it among their students.
Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement
Identifies several components that, when effectively addressed, provide schools with the foundation and building blocks needed to create and maintain safe schools.
Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs
Presents an overview of gang research and programs in the United States and examines how gangs form and why youth join them.
Girls Study Group: Understanding and Responding to Girls' Delinquency
Examines issues such as patterns of offending among adolescents and how they differ for girls and boys; risk and protective factors associated with delinquency, including gender differences; and the causes and correlates of girls’ delinquency.
Girls' Delinquency
Examines rising trends in girls’ delinquency in the 1990s.
Healthy School Environmental Resources
Provides on-line resources to help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health issues in schools.
Healthy Youth Program Evaluation Resources
Provides a wealth of handbooks, newsletters, briefs, tutorials, and tools to assist through the twists and turns of program evaluation.
Helping Children and Youth With Serious Mental Health Needs: Systems of Care
Provides a resource list and information on systems of care and mental health needs in children and youth; defines systems of care, describes specific services, and provides outcome data about the impact of systems of care services and supports.
Human Trafficking of Children in the United States: A Fact Sheet for Schools
Offers information on what human trafficking is and how it can affect schools. It also provides a list of indicators one can you use to identify a vicitim of sex trafficking, as well as tips on how to report it.
Implementing Strong Nutrition Standards for Schools: Financial Implications
Outlines the evidence-based, financial implications of schools that have implemented strong nutrition standards to address childhood obesity.
Indoor Air Quality Design Tools for Schools
Provides Information, tools and guidance for comprehensively improving indoor air quality in schools.
Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Action Kit
Shows schools how to carry out a practical plan to improve indoor air problems at little- or no-cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff; provides best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies, and a sample IAQ management plan.
Integrated Pest Management Program (IPM)
Provides information about available pest control methods, without using chemical pesticides, and with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment.
Keep Kids Alcohol Free: Strategies for Action
Describes three basic prevention strategies and ways they can be applied in the home, the school, and the community, and offers effective, practical strategies for communities that have decided to take action to prevent underage drinking, especially among children and young adolescents.
Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories
Tells the stories of schools and districts that have used innovative strategies to improve the nutritional quality of foods and beverages sold outside of federal meal programs.
Measuring Student Engagement in Upper Elementary Through High School: A Description of 21 Instruments
Reviews the characteristics of 21 instruments that measure student engagement in upper elementary through high school; summarizes what each instrument measures, describes its purposes and uses, and provides technical information on its psychometric properties.
Measuring Student Relationships to School: Attachment, Bonding, Connectedness, and Engagement
Identifies the various terms, constructs, and instruments used in the study of student connection to school.
Mobilizing for Evidence-Based Character Education
Offers strategies for working with external evaluators and key stakeholders in planning and implementing a scientifically sound evaluation. Organized in a logical sequence that reflects the order in which to undertake the eight basic steps of planning and implementing an evaluation.
National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) School Questionnaire
Collects supplemental information about school factors that may influence students’ achievement, including items about the length of the school day and year, school enrollment, absenteeism, dropout rates, and the size and composition of the teaching staff. Also collects information about tracking policies, curricula, testing practices, special priorities, and schoolwide programs and problems; and the availability of resources, policies for parental involvement, special services, and community services.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (HTSA)
Provides a series of resources for reducing school bus-related crashes, injuries, and fatalities through both behavioral programs and vehicle regulations; offers suggestions for working to educate school bus drivers, students, and other motorists about safe behavior that reduces the risk of being involved in a school bus-related crash.
NSDUH Report: How Young Adults Obtain Prescription Pain Relievers for Nonmedical Use
Reports on the prevalence of past year nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers among young adults aged 18 to 25 and how they obtained the prescription pain relievers they used most recently for nonmedical purposes.
Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools: Leading the Way toward Healthier Youth
Reviews the science and make recommendations about nutrition standards for foods and beverages offered in direct competition with school-provided meals and snacks. Includes a set of four audience-specific fact sheets as a resource for school staff, parents, and youth to answer commonly asked questions about the report and provide recommendations for implementing the nutrition standards.
Opportunities to Coordinate 21st Community Learning Centers Funding with the Child Care and Development Fund
Provides State child care administrators and other school-age stakeholders with an overview of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program, and highlights potential areas for coordination with the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).
Overcoming Barriers to School Reentry
Describes a model for overcoming barriers to school reentry developed by how the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) in New York City.
Parent Engagement: Strategies for Involving Parents in School Health
Defines and describes parent engagement and identifies specific strategies and actions that schools can take to increase parent engagement in schools’ health promotion activities.
Partnering for Success: How Health Departments Work & How to Work with Health Departments
Discusses the many ways in which health departments can be of support to education departments, schools, and community leaders.
Personalization and Caring Relationships with Adults in Urban High Schools: Is There a Relationship with Academic Achievement?
Examines how student attitudes about personalization and advisory were related to academic outcomes.
Positive Impact of Social And Emotional Learning for Kindergarten to Eighth-grade Students: Findings from three scientific reviews
Summarizes results from three large-scale reviews of research on the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on elementary and middle-school students.
Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities
Gives schools, districts, and communities the critical concepts and components of good crisis planning, stimulates thinking about the crisis preparedness process, and provides examples of promising practices.
Preventing Tobacco Use Amoung Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General
Examines in detail the epidemiology, health effects, and causes of tobacco use among youth ages 12 through 17 and young adults ages 18 through 25. Also highlights the efficacy of strategies to prevent young people from using tobacco. Has an accompanying consumer booklet with practical steps and information for addressing youth tobacco use and fact sheet that provides an overview of key findings from the report.
Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices Across Cultural Groups: A CDC Research Brief
Summarizes findings from a CDC study on cultural values and parenting and child rearing that examined the ways that parents respond to children’s behavior and their views of desirable or undesirable parenting practices.
Resilient Girls--Factors that Protect Against Delinquency
Describes how four factors—presence of a caring adult, school connectedness, school success, and religiosity—affect girls’ propensity towards delinquency.
Restraint and Seclusion: Resource Document
Presents 15 principles for state, district, and school staff; parents; and other stakeholders to consider when developing policies and procedures which should be in writing on the use of restraint and seclusion; and highlights the current state of practice and implementation considerations for each principle.
Safe and Healthy School Environments: an Overview
Provides a broad overview of the issues related to children’s environmental health in schools and describes how one administrator successfully manages environmental health issues for the largest public school district in California using a software tool designed by the district.
Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader’s Guide to Evidence-Based SEL Programs
Provides a road map for schools and districts that are launching or adding social, emotional, and academic learning programs and reviews 80 multiyear, sequenced SEL programs designed for use in general education classrooms.
Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide
Provides a comprehensive model that can lead to safer schools and information about technical assistance centers and evidence-based resources that schools can draw upon to develop a comprehensive plan that addresses the particular safety needs of their schools and communities.
School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth
Presents six evidence-based strategies that could be implemented to increase students’ sense of connectedness to school, along with specific actions that can be taken to implement each of the strategies.
School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Offers nine guidelines for schools related to promoting healthy eating and physical activity in schools based on research and best practices.
School Health Policies and Practices Study
Assesses school health policies and practices at the state, district, school, and classroom levels.
School-Based Mental Health: An Empirical Guide for Decision Makers
Reviews the history of mental health services supplied in schools and implementation of services; provides an overview of the evidence base for school-based interventions; and includes recommendations for evidence-based mental health services in schools.
SCOPE Thought Piece
Provides thoughts from an assembled group of prevention education practitioners and experts on the biggest questions facing prevention educators today.
Social And Emotional Learning And Student Benefits: Implications for the Safe School/Healthy Students core elements
Summarizes research indicating how Social And Emotional Learning addresses the Safe Schools/Healthy Students core elements of safe learning environments and violence prevention activities; substance abuse prevention; behavioral, social, and emotional supports; mental health services; and early childhood SEL programs.
Social Emotional Learning and Bullying Prevention (2009)
Illustrates the relationship between social and emotional factors and bullying; explains how an SEL framework can be extended to include bullying prevention; and provides suggested resources for doing so.
Strategies to Improve the Quality of Physical Education
Outlines key strategies for increasing the amount of time that students are engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity while in physical education class.
Student-Led Crime Prevention: A Real Resource with Powerful Promise
Provides examples of student-led crime prevention, outlines its variations, and describes key steps for bringing it to schools.
Substance Abuse Intervention and Treatment: A Guide for Schools
Offers resources and practical information about dealing with substance use issues in the school setting, such as ATOD policies and procedures, signs and symptoms of use, Student Assistance Programs, drug testing, early intervention and treatment services, and confidentiality issues.
Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Policymakers and other stakeholders can use cost-benefit analysis as an informative tool for decisionmaking for substance abuse prevention. This report reveals the importance of supporting effective prevention programs as part of a comprehensive substance abuse prevention strategy.
Suicide and Bullying Issue Brief
Examines the relationship between suicide and bullying among children and adolescents, with special attention to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. Also explores strategies for preventing these problems.
The Challenge
Provides critical information and resources to help schools in creating safe and healthy environments for students. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students.
The Challenge of Assessing School Climate
Provides guidance on measuring school climate and using school climate data as a complementary form of assessment.
The School Environment and Adolescent Well-Being: Beyond Academics
Presents national estimates from a variety of sources on the school environment of adolescents in the areas of health, safety, social support, academics, and civic engagement.
Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates
Details a process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence in schools; includes suggestions for developing a threat assessment team within a school or school district, steps to take when a threat or other information of concern comes to light, consideration about when to involve law enforcement personnel, issues of information sharing, and ideas for creating safe school climates.
Tips for Helping Students Recovering from Traumatic Events
Provides practical information for parents and students who are coping with the aftermath of a natural disaster, as well as teachers, coaches, school administrators and others who are helping those affected.
Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Program
Includes an overview of research on truancy, including extent of the problem, consequences, contributing factors, and programs that have improved school attendance; addresses legal and economic issues of truancy and addressing the problem; and provides a list of references and resources to aid in engaging parents and communities and finding alternatives to juvenile court, among other issues.
Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program
Outlines critical components of truancy programs such as family involvement, use of incentives and sanctions, developing a support network, and program evaluation. Available online only.
Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information and Resource Kit
Equips prevention professionals, healthcare providers, and educators with information on current health issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. Includes an overview of terms related to gender identity and sexual expression.
Treatment of Adolescents With Substance Use Disorders
Discusses factors in treatment placement; successful treatment components; approaches used in 12-Step programs, therapeutic communities, and family therapy; teens with distinct needs; and legal issues.
Understanding Bullying
Provides a working definition of bullying; reviews it's status as a public health issue and the effect bullying has on mental health. Also provides prevention tips, CDC's approach to bullying prevention, and related resources.
Working Together to Help Youth Thrive in Schools and Communities: Systems of Care
Provides an overview of the systems of care program and how youth and their families improve on various behavioral and mental health outcomes a result of receiving services in systems of care.
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Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies
Reviews states' bullying laws and model bullying policies and school districts' bullying policies, using the U.S. Department of Education's guidance document, "Anti-Bullying Policies: Examples of Provisions in State Laws," as an organizing framework for the review.
Prevalence and Implementation Fidelity of Research-Based Prevention Programs in Public Schools
Examines the prevalence of research-based drug and violence prevention programs in schools and the programs' implementation fidelity.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Monitoring Indicators of Children’s Victimization in School: Linking National-, Regional-, and Site-Level Indicators
Suggests monitoring school violence from multiple perspectives, using multiple indicators, and comparing the results of national, regional, and state level studies in order to empower decision makers at each of these levels to provide the best solutions to school violence based on a picture showing, in full perspective, what the biggest problem areas are.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Monitoring school violence: Linking national-, district-, and school-level data over time
Identifies the need for monitoring systems of school violence at the national, district, and school level who’s data can be gathered together and compared in order to make decisions on dealing with school violence that are based on both a global perspective and on the needs of independent cases.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: School Violence and Theoretically Atypical Schools: The Principal's Centrality in Orchestrating Safe Schools
Examines variables that explain how, while typically the level of safety within a school is a reflection of the level of safety in that school's surrounding community, there are some outlier schools with levels of safety that do not correlate with that of the community.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Unowned Places and Times: Maps and Interviews About Violence in High Schools
Determines that school violence often occurs when there is a lack of adult supervision and explores what feasible adaptations could be made to lower school violence rates in light of these findings.
A Profile of Criminal Incidents at School: Results from the 2003-05 National Crime Victimization Survey
Provides estimates of criminal incidents that occur at school based on incident-level data obtained from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization and criminal incidents in the United States.
Breaking School Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement
Describes the analysis of millions of school and juvenile justice records in Texas to improve policymakers’ understanding of who is suspended and expelled from public secondary schools, and the impact of those removals on students’ academic performance and juvenile justice system involvement.
Bullying in Schools: An Overview
Summarizes studies exploring the connections between bullying in schools, school attendance and engagement, and academic achievement.
Can School Structures Improve Teacher-Student Relationships? The Relationship Between Advisory Programs, Personalization and Students' Academic Achievement
Examines students’ perceptions of personalization and, specifically, advisory as a reform strategy and its relationship to students’ academic progress.
Child and Youth Victimization Known to Police, School, and Medical Authorities
Presents the survey results from the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) regarding authorities' knowledge of victimization incidents involving children and youth, particularly police, school, and medical authorities.
Child Health USA
Compiles secondary data for many health status indicators, and provides both graphical and textual summaries of data and addresses long-term trends.
Civil Rights Data Collection
Collects data, that are disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability, from a representative sample of schools and districts, representing 85% of the students in our nation's schools, on a range of issues including college and career readiness, discipline, school finance, and student retention.
Crime and Safety Surveys
Provides data and reports produced by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on the topic of school crime and safety, organized by survey respondent.
Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools, Findings from the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2007-08
Presents national-level information about crime and safety in U.S. public schools as reported by school principals, including the frequency of criminal incidents at school, the use of disciplinary actions, and efforts to prevent and reduce crime at school.
Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools: Findings From the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2009–10
Presents findings on crime and violence in U.S. public schools, using data from the 2009–10 School Survey on Crime and Safety. Survey asks public school principals about the frequency of incidents, such as physical attacks, robberies, and thefts, in their schools; and asks about school programs, disciplinary actions, and the policies implemented to prevent and reduce crime in schools.
Dating Violence Prevention Programs in Public Middle Schools: A Multi-Level Experimental Evaluation
Employs a multi-level experiment to provide high-quality scientific evidence concerning the effectiveness of targeting a young, universal primary prevention audience with classroom-based curricula and school-level interventions around reducing peer-to-peer harassment and dating violence.
Effectiveness of Cross-Age and Peer Mentoring Programs
Examines research on peer mentoring programs, highlighting their benefits and noting conditions and components of successful programs.
Evaluating G.R.E.A.T.: A School-Based Gang Prevention Program
Summarizes results of a 5-year study of the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program, revealing that G.R.E.A.T. has modest positive effects on adolescents' attitudes and delinquency risk factors but no effects on their involvement in gangs and actual delinquent behaviors.
Findings From the Evaluation of OJJDP's Gang Reduction Program
Presents findings from an independent evaluation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Gang Reduction Program—a comprehensive, multifaceted approach to gang reduction.
Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs
Presents an overview of gang research and programs in the United States and examines how gangs form and why youth join them.
Geographic Patterns of Obesity Prevalence Among Low-Income, Preschool-Aged Children
Maps the geographic variability of obesity across the nation by drawing on state-level collected through the Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS).
Highlights of the 2006 National Youth Gang Survey
Summarizes findings from the 2006 survey and reports data on the number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related crime. Based on survey results, it is estimated that approximately 26,500 gangs and 785,000 gang members were active in the United States in 2006.
Highlights of the 2008 National Youth Gang Survey
Reports findings from the 2008 National Youth Gang Survey. Based on survey results, it is estimated that more than 3,330 jurisdictions across the United States experienced gang activity in 2008.
Homophobic Teasing, Psychological Outcomes, and Sexual Orientation Among High School Students: What Influence Do Parents and Schools Have?
Examines buffering influences of positive parental relations and positive school climate on mental health outcomes for high school students who are questioning their sexual orientation.
Impacts of a Violence Prevention Program for Middle Schools: Findings After 3 Years of Implementation
Summarizes findings from an impact evaluation of a hybrid model violence prevention intervention that combined a curriculum-based program, Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways, and a whole-school approach, Best Behavior, for middle schools.
Improving academic achievement through improving school climate and student connectedness
Presents analyses of survey data regarding how students experience social and emotional conditions for learning, and the relationship of these conditions to academic outcomes.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2011
Provides data on crime and safety at school from the perspective of students, teachers, and principals. Provides crime and safety information for students’ travel to and from school. Highlights the most current detailed statistical information on the nature of crime in schools and school environments and responses to violence and crime at school.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2010
Provides the most current detailed statistical information on the nature of crime in schools, examining crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school.
Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
Documents the existence of disparities for minorities in mental health services and the underlying knowledge base; reviews issues relevant to the mental health of racial and ethnic minorities; and provides a historical and cultural context within which minority health may be be better understood.
National Household Education Study (NHES)
Provides descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population and offers researchers, educators, and policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States.
Nutrition and Physical Education Policy and Practice in the Pacific Region
Describes the percentage of secondary schools that have adopted policies and practices for student wellness, physical education, food service, and nutrition education across the seven jurisdictions in the Pacific Region.
Parent Involvement and Extended Learning Activities in School Improvement Plans in the Midwest Region
Analyzes school improvement plans in five Midwest Region states and reveals that more than 90 percent of plans included at least one “potentially effective” parent involvement activity and 70 percent included at least one extended learning activity (a before-school, afterschool, or summer program).
Perceptions of Risk from Substance Use among Adolescents
Explores age and gender trends among adolescents' perceived risk associated with the use of cigarettes, heroin, LSD, cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana.
Prevalence of Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: United States, Trends 1963-1965 Through 2007-2008
Reports that nearly 17% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years of age are obese; covers trends and racial/ethnic disparities in obesity among young people.
Relationships Matter: Linking Teacher Support to Student Engagement and Achievement
Illustrates the relationship between student experience of support from teachers, student engagement, and academic achievement among elementary and middle school students.
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Gang Affiliation Among High-Risk Youth: A Public Health Approach
Assesses risk and protective factors associated with gang affiliation among a high-risk youth population to better inform primary prevention strategies.
School Climate Predictors of School Disorder: Results from a National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools
Examines the association of school organizational characteristics with school crime and disorder in a nationally representative sample of 254 secondary schools.
School Connectedness and the Transition Into and Out of Health-Risk Behavior Among Adolescents: A Comparison of Social Belonging and Teacher Support
Explores the association between two dimensions of school connectedness – perceived teacher support and social belonging – and participation in adolescent health-risk behaviors.
Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)
Collects information on teacher demand and shortage, teacher and administrator characteristics, school programs, and general conditions in schools, as well as principals' and teachers' perceptions of school climate and problems in their schools; teacher compensation; district hiring practices and basic characteristics of the student population. Four core components: the School Questionnaire, the Teacher Questionnaire, the Principal Questionnaire, and the School District Questionnaire.
Seasonality of Youth's First-Time Use of Marijuana, Cigarettes, or Alcohol
Examines the percentage of teens age 12 to 17 who begin using alcohol, marijuana, or cigarettes each month.
Shifting Boundaries: Final Report on an Experimental Evaluation of a Youth Dating Violence Prevention Program in New York City Middle Schools
Evaluates the effectiveness of a multi‐level approach (i.e., targeting a young, universal primary prevention audience with classroom‐based curricula and school‐level interventions) to dating violence and harassment (DV/H) prevention programming (in terms of knowledge, attitudes, intended behavior, and behavior of youth participants) for middle school students from a large urban school district.
Student Reports of Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Results From the 2007 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey
Uses data from the 2007 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to show the relationship between bullying and cyber-bullying victimization and other variables of interest such as the reported presence of gangs, guns, drugs, and alcohol at school; select school security measures; student criminal victimization; and personal fear, avoidance behaviors, fighting, and weapon-carrying at school.
Student Victimization in U.S. Schools: Results From the 2009 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey
Uses data from the 2009 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to examine student criminal victimization and the characteristics of crime victims and nonvictims. Also provides findings on student reports of the presence of gangs and weapons and the availability of drugs and alcohol at school, student reports of bullying and cyberbullying, and fear and avoidance behaviors of crime victims and nonvictims at school.
Student-Reported Overt and Relational Aggression and Victimization in Grades 3–8
Examines the prevalence and distribution of aggression, victimization, and approval of aggression, both overt (verbally and physically aggressive behavior intended to threaten or harm) and relational (behavior intended to harm someone’s relationships with others).
Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders
Presents some key findings on the link between adolescent substance use and serious offending. Serious/chronic offenders are much more likely than other juvenile offenders to be substance users and have related disorders.
The Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Programs for the Prevention of Violent and Aggressive Behavior
Provides a summary of findings from a review of evidence concerning the effectiveness of universal school-based violence prevention programs.
Using Environmental Design to Prevent School Violence
Considers how Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), a crime reduction approach that focuses on reducing crime opportunities and on promoting positive social behavior, can be applied to school violence prevention.
Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context
Examines the involvement of girls in violent activity (including whether such activity has increased relative to the increase for boys) and the contexts in which girls engage in violent behavior.
What are Districts' Written Policies Regarding Student Substance-Related Incidents?
Describes key features of the high school alcohol and drug policies in the 100 largest school districts in the United States.
Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool
Customizable tool that can be used to conduct an analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and CDC’s Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula; results can help schools select or develop appropriate and effective health education curricula and improve the delivery of health education.
Human Trafficking of Children in the United States: A Fact Sheet for Schools
Offers information on what human trafficking is and how it can affect schools. It also provides a list of indicators one can you use to identify a vicitim of sex trafficking, as well as tips on how to report it.
Measuring Student Engagement in Upper Elementary Through High School: A Description of 21 Instruments
Reviews the characteristics of 21 instruments that measure student engagement in upper elementary through high school; summarizes what each instrument measures, describes its purposes and uses, and provides technical information on its psychometric properties.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide
Offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.
Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool
Helps school districts conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of written physical education curricula, based upon national physical education standards; results from the analysis can help school districts enhance existing curricula, develop their own curricula, or select a published curriculum, for the delivery of quality physical education in schools.
Safe Communities, Safe Schools: School Safety Glossary
Simple, concise tool for schools, families, and communities.
School Health Education Resources (SHER)
Searchable database that provides access to all the educational resources relevant to school health that are available from CDC, such as curriculum, factsheets, and teacher instructional materials on various topics like alcoholo and drug abuse, mental health, and nutrition.
School Health Index (SHI)
Self-assessment and planning tool that enables a school to identify the strengths and weaknesses of its health and safety policies and programs; develop an action plan for improving student health and safety; and involve teachers, parents, students, and the community in improving school services.
TOXMAP: Environmental Health e-Maps
Explores on-site toxic releases and hazardous waste sites from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).
2011 OSDFS National Conference: Joint Use Agreements and Other Community Approaches to Sustainable Programs
Discusses potential solutions to the practical and legal concerns about opening school facilities for after-hours use as well as strategies and resources for developing joint use agreements, which allow schools to set the terms and conditions for shared use of school property.
2011 OSDFS National Conference: Models for Providing Health Services in Schools
Examines the importance and value of providing school health services to students, the impact on attendance and academic achievement, and a few models of school health services provision that have been able to enhance sustainability by combining their funding from a variety of sources.
2011 OSDFS National Conference: Project EAT
Shares how to create programs that are integrated into and beyond schools and increase the number of minutes students are physically active and the amount of fruits and vegetables students consume, such as Project Educate, Act, Thrive (EAT) which has integrated physical education and garden-based nutrition education into more than 50 under-resourced schools.
2011 OSDFS National Conference: School Nurses Helping Students Make Smart Moves and Smart Choices about Prescription Drugs
Discusses prescription drug abuse among youths and provides prevention resources. Describes the role of the school nurse as a prevention agent in schools and how nurses can work with students to increase their understanding of the dangers and consequences of abusing prescription drugs.
2011 OSDFS National Conference: Unifying Best Practices Under a Connected School Umbrella: Enhancing Conditions for Learning
Demonstrates how Olweus Bullying Prevention, Positive Behavior Intervention Supports, Avid, Second Step, and Steps to Respect can be enhanced by a Connected School approach. Acquaints participants with the Connected School ideas and strategies and how to use these ideas and strategies as a unifying force in implementing best practices for creating and maintaining conditions for learning in their school.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Balancing Utility and Research Criteria in Conditions for Learning Measurement
Addresses the issue in monitoring of choosing between research based and “state-grown” systems and recommends ways to reach toward validity, reliability, and useful results when unfamiliar instruments are used.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Best Practices Among States and Districts
Presents the importance of sustaining a positive school climate, 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.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Considerations and Strategies for Family and Staff Surveys
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”.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Creating Champions for Sustainability through Social Marketing and Communications
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. Examples are provided.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Creating Communities of Practice in Support of Improved Conditions for Learning
Identifies communities of practice as a means to sustain positive results after successfully implementing a strategy for improving learning conditions. Describes how communities of practice function and why they are successful, and, provides real life examples.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Engaging Families in a Comprehensive Approach to Improving School Climate
Discusses family involvement in the improvement of school climate, citing evidence that this leads to positive outcomes, lists areas where families can contribute and have a positive effect, and looks at possible challenges to getting families involved and the consequences of not rising above these challenges.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Expanding and Improving Data on Bullying, Harassment and Discipline
Identifies two sources of data on school climate variables: “Civil Rights Data Collection” and “Incident Data”. Describes types of data each source offers and explores their potential uses and applications.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: How Can We Improve School Safety Research?
Suggests future approaches to researching school safety, such as working with attention to understanding school violence in context, understanding the interrelationships among types of violence at school, understanding cross-cultural and within-culture, variability in etiology and prevention of school violence, replicating evidence based practice studies to establish greater external validity, and observing and learning from schools that have independently made marked improvements in school safety.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Improving Collaboration with Agencies and Partners for the Collection and Use of Data
Promotes tapping into and integrating existing state and local agencies and initiatives who’s missions are aligned with one or more of the areas outlined in the mission of school climate improvement as a strategy for gaining access to more data, strengthening supports, and ultimately, making school climate improvments more sustainable. Provides examples of cross agency collaborations that have proved beneficial.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Key Strategies for Understanding and Using Climate Data
Walks through the reiterative process of evaluating school climate, raising support for change, and implementing needed changes. Presents an example of this process from the California School Climate Surveys, outlining the steps taken, and, with the results as a guide, painting a picture of what a school climate that promotes academic achievement looks like.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Linkages of School Climate Data to Academic Outcomes
Provides instruction on demonstrating the connections between school climate and academic outcomes as a means of appealing for the support of the parties in a position to champion and sustain the programs. Provides tips for selecting the best evaluation tools and considerations for presenting the resulting data to various audiences in ways that strategically appeal to their interests.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Managing the Use of Suspensions, Expulsions, and Arrests: Alternatives for Schools and Districts
Suggests that, while out-of-school suspensions and expulsions are intended to remove sources of dangerous behavior from the school, they also remove the punished students from a community where they can learn and grow behaviorally and emotionally, resulting in travel through the school to prison pipeline. Reviews a number of behavior modification methods that can be used to improve problem-students’ behavior without resorting to removal from school.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: School Safety Score Considerations: Construction, Quality, Utility
Provides direction on developing a valid and reliable method for measuring school safety using and balancing the different data sources and measurement tools available. Recommends approaches for presenting results of measurements to key audiences.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Strategic Planning Process for Sustainability
Presents a step by step approach to generating public interest and support for a school improvement program and sustaining support for the program over time. Discusses researching audience (key influencers), demonstrating importance of the program, maintaining engagement, and using feedback to evaluate overall effectiveness of the engagement strategy.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: Strategies to Support Social, Emotional and Behavioral Needs of Students
Introduces Social and Emotional Learning as well as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and demonstrates their effectiveness in building skills that will help students succeed in all aspects of life and work as they move onto college and beyond. Presents practices that will help implement these behavioral interventions.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: The Connection Between Climate and Academics
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”.
2011 School Climate Technical Assistance Symposium: The Use of Data for Making Improvements at the School Level
Suggests approaches to using data on school climate to assess shortcomings and address them. Emphasizes the need to use multiple sources of data and presents a step by step guide to making improvements based on data collected.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Building Learning Communities to Sustain Program Efforts
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).
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Creating a Positive School Climate through Community and School Partnerships
Provides examples of student success programs partnering with their local communities and other student success related programs within or beyond the school itself in order to to create wrap around intervention systems for those students who are struggling academically or behaviorally to various degrees.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Fiscal Sustainability Worksheet
Compliments "Sustainability Planning Worksheet" as a program financial sustainability planner. Coinsides with the "Planning for Sustainability" resource which presents this step-by-step worksheet tool for making plans of sustainability within school climate improvement programs from the beginning of implementation.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Iowa S3 Program Planning Efforts
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.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Laying the Foundation - A Discussion on Moving Fidelity of Implementation from Compliance to Capacity Building
Discusses the foundational role of universal prevention in school-climate program implementation, and, reveals that the change process must be developmental, or completed over a period of years, and executed with attention fidelity.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Management, Evaluation and Implementation of Maryland’s S3 Initiative
Shares experience and results so far of Maryland’s S3 school climate program as an example of program management, evaluation and implementation. Discusses the makeup of a 3 tiered system of support for students applied by this state's specific program.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Planning for Sustainability
Presents a step-by-step worksheet tool for making plans of sustainability within school climate improvement programs from the beginning of implementation.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Resources to Support Improved School Climate
Documents descriptions and links to a variety of guides, briefs, tools, and websites by the school climate content areas of programmatic intervention, measures, school climate (engagement, environment, and safety), and special populations.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: School Climate Literature Handout
Cites programs and measurement resources for the content areas of bullying, challenging behavior, character education, health, school climate, school safety, student engagement, and mental health.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: SEL and PBIS - Supporting The Achievement of Academic Outcomes: Parts 2 & 4
Discusses promoting social and emotional learning for academic success (SELAS) and shares thoughts about integreating SEL and PBIS.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Sustainability Planning Worksheet
Coinsides with the "Planning for Sustainability" resource which presents this step-by-step worksheet tool for making plans of sustainability within school climate improvement programs from the beginning of implementation.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Sustaining Innovations
Answers questions about sustaining innovations including: What is sustainability? What is innovation? What factors effect innovation implementation? What do you want to have last? And, what strategies do we need to use to bring about broad, deep, enduring impacts?
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Sustaining Programs through Communities of Practice
Defines and discusses the strategic value of communities of practice in achieving and sustaining goals and provides examples of success with this model. Reveals how communities of practice are involved in the evolution of knowledge management.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Sustaining School Climate and Culture
Shows what activities Kansas State Department of Education schools partake in that generate and sustain school climate improvement. References programs and partnerships taken on by Kansas both of their own authorship and from without to meet these ends.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: Virginia - Effective Implementation of Programmatic Interventions
Reveals keys and make-up of school climate improvement program success, based upon the example of Virginia's experience with S3 implementation. Defines and discusses the value of student assistance programing (SAP) as well as the levels of Virginia's multi-tiered model of supporting students.
2012 OSHS Grantee TA Symposium: West Virginia: Safe and Supportive Schools Initiative
Discusses the strategic steps taken to provide an organizational framework for planning in the West Virginia model for positive school climate. Demonstrates the model's use of an internet-based intervention plan and vetting process for programs.
Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment on Our Nation's School Buses
Houses archive of the event called "Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment on Our Nation's School Buses" organized to bring together national and state leaders, representatives of key education organizations, and other federal agencies who want to improve working conditions for our nation’s school bus drivers, to create a safe and respectful environment on our schools buses, and to generate confidence and partnerships in school with administrators, teachers, parents, students and community members.
Creating Safer Schools & Healthier Children: A Model Bullying Prevention Program
Shares how the Highmark Foundation spearheaded the creation of a coalition of experts to implement the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) in the largest statewide bullying prevention initiative in the country and how other stakeholders around the country can replicate this unique, model program.
Improving Student Engagement Through Early Career Mapping
Experts discuss the benefits of personalized learning tools to engage students and help them create pathways to their long-term goals. Also examines the challenges and benefits of mapping student learning plans.
Role of Mental Health in Schools
Discusses justification for schools’ attention to students’ mental health and why school is an ideal setting for mental health work to take place, presents evidence based programs that can be used to improve school mental health, and provides examples of existing school mental health programs that have found success.
School Climate Survey Compendium (as of December 20, 2011)
To assist educators and education agencies in locating a valid and reliable needs assessment that suits their needs, the Safe and Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center is developing a compendium of student, staff, and family surveys that can be used as part of a school climate needs assessment. Below is an initial list of school climate survey batteries. (Alternatively, click here to download a summary table (PDF) of each survey by respondent type.)
Please note that the Office of Safe and Healthy Students does not endorse any particular scale or survey presented in this compendium. Additionally, the database presented is not an exhaustive listing of available measures or survey instruments. If you would like to nominate a survey that is not currently included in the compendium, click on the link below.
Nominate a Survey
Alaska School Climate and Connectedness Survey
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These survey instruments are not publicly available. Please contact Kim Kendziora at kkendziora@air.org for more information about this survey. |
American Institutes for Research Conditions for Learning Survey
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Safe and Respectful Climate, High Expectations, Student Support, Social and Emotional Learning |
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There is no charge for using this survey. Please contact David Osher at dosher@air.org for additional information. |
California Healthy Kids Survey
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School connectedness, School supports - caring relationships, School supports - high expectations, School supports - opportunities for meaningful participation, Community supports - caring relationships, Community supports - high expectations, Community supports - opportunities for meaningful participation, Tobacco, alcohol, or drug use at school, Physical/ verbal/emotional violence victimization, Physical/ verbal/emotional violence perpetration, Harassment victimization, Peer supports - caring relationships, Peer supports - high expectations, Home supports - caring relationships, Home supports - high expectations, Home supports - opportunities for meaningful participation, Problem solving Self-efficacy, Cooperation and communication, Empathy, Self-awareness |
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Please note that while a copy of the survey instrument is publicly available at http://chks.wested.org/administer/download, it is copyright protected. Information on obtaining the survey instrument can be found at: http://chks.wested.org/. |
California School Climate Survey
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Collegiality, Resource provisions and training, Professional development – instruction, Professional development – cultural competence, Professional development – meeting student needs, Positive student learning environment, Caring and respectful relationships, High expectations of students, Opportunities for meaningful participation, Cultural sensitivity, Clarity and equity of discipline policies, Perceived school safety, Learning facilitative behavior, Learning barrier – risk behavior, Learning barrier – interpersonal conflict and destructive behavior |
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Please note that while a copy of the survey instrument is publicly available at http://cscs.wested.org/training_support, it is copyright protected. Information on obtaining the survey instrument can be found at: http://cscs.wested.org/. |
California School Parents Survey
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Facilitation of parent involvement, Positive student learning environment, Opportunities for meaningful participation, Cultural sensitivity, Clarity and equity of discipline policies, Perceived school safety, Learning barriers |
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Parents |
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Please note that while a copy of the survey instrument is publicly available at http://csps.wested.org/, it is copyright protected. Information on obtaining the survey instrument can be found at: http://cscs.wested.org/. |
The Center for Research in Educational Policy School Climate Inventory
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Orderly School Environment; Instructional Leadership; Positive Learning Environment; Parent and Community Involvement; Well-Developed and Implemented Instruction; Expectations for Students; Collaboration among Administration, Faculty, and Students |
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Teachers, Administrators and Professional Staff |
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This survey instrument is not publicly available. Please contact the Center for Research in Educational Policy at CREP@memphis.edu or 1-866-670-6147 for more information. |
The Center for Social and Emotional Education Comprehensive School Climate Inventory
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Students, Staff, Parents/Guardians, Community Members |
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These survey instruments are not publicly available. Please contact Darlene Faster, COO and Director of Communications, at the National School Climate Center at dfaster@schoolclimate.org or (212) 707-8799 x22 for more information on these surveys. |
Communities That Care Youth Survey
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The 2010 survey instrument is not publicly available. Please contact Michael Arthur at marthur@u.washinton.edu for information about this survey. |
The Consortium on Chicago School Research Survey of Chicago Public Schools
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Student surveys are available at http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/downloads/17242009_my_voice__9th-11th_student_codebook_.pdf and http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/downloads/23532009_my_voice_senior_student_codebook.pdf. Staff survey is available at http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/downloads/2009/HS_Teacher_Survey09Cdbk_8-6.pdf. Please note that the student and staff surveys are currently being updated and are copyrighted. Please contact Nick Montgomery at nmontgomery@uchicago.edu for additional information on these surveys. |
Culture of Excellence & Ethics Assessment
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These survey instruments can be used free of charge, subject to the conditions of the User Agreement, and can be found at: http://excellenceandethics.com/assess/ceea.php. Please contact Vlad Khmelkov at vkhmelkov@excellenceandethics.com for additional information. |
Effective School Battery
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Additional information and order forms for these survey instruments can be found at: http://www.education.umd.edu/EDCP/schoolassess/Tools/ESB/ESB.html. Please contact Eva Yui at climate-assess@umd.edu for additional information. |
Perceived School Experiences Scale
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Academic Motivation, Academic Press, School Connectedness |
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There is no charge for using this survey. Please contact Dawn Anderson-Butcher at anderson-butcher.1@osu.edu for additional information. |
Pride Learning Environment Survey
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School climate; teacher and student respect; student discipline; school safety; teacher to student relationships; teacher collaboration; student engagement; student encouragement; frequency of substance use; effect of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; age of first substance use; perceived harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; parents’ feelings towards alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; place of substance use; time of substance use; violence; bullying |
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Please note that while a copy of the survey instrument is publicly available at http://dbdemo.pridesurveys.com, it is copyright protected. Information on obtaining the survey instrument can be found at: |
Pride Teaching Environment Survey
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Like Teaching, Like Administrators – My School, Like Administrators – Instructional Leadership, Effective Teaching, Teacher Evaluation, Principal Support, Teacher Respect, Participatory Decision-making, Staff Collegiality, Desired Involvement in Improving Teaching Practices, Current Involvement in School Policies and Practices, Desired Involvement in Teaching Practice Policies, Student Discipline, Student Conduct Rules/Policies, Teacher Stress, Classroom Support, Teacher Attitude, Interpersonal Relationships, Student Engagement, Teacher Pay, Facilities and Resources, Teacher Workload |
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Please note that while a copy of the survey instrument is publicly available at http://dbdemo.pridesurveys.com, it is copyright protected. Information on obtaining the survey instrument can be found at: |
Search Institute Creating a Great Place to Learn Survey
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These survey instruments are not publicly available. Please contact the Search Institute for additional information at http://www.search-institute.org/survey-services. |
Secondary Classroom Climate Assessment Instrument
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Discipline environment, Student interactions, Learning assessment, Attitude and culture |
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Students, Staff |
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Survey instrument is not publicly available. Please contact John Shindler, Director of the Alliance for the Study of School Climate at jshindl@calstatela.edu for additional information on the CCAI. |
Secondary School Climate Assessment Instrument
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Students, Faculty, Parents |
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This survey instrument is not publicly available. Please contact John Shindler, Director of the Alliance for the Study of School Climate at jshindl@calstatela.edu for additional information on the SCAI. |
