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Teachers play an important role in ensuring that students are learning in an environment that is both physically and emotionally safe. The following products, research articles and briefs, and tools can help teachers understand how they can support their students, including addressing social and emotional learning, bullying, school connectedness, substance abuse prevention, and other issues related to safety.
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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.
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.
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.
Character Education Teacher Resource Guide
Offers important background information about establishing effective character education, sample lesson plans, unit materials for teaching character education, directions for the use of research-based instructional strategies, sample assessment tools and techniques, supplemental resources and directions for establishing safe and supportive school and classroom cultures that promote student learning.
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.
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 Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit
Offers lesson plans to assist young people in, first, understanding the negative impact of homophobia and transphobia on GLBTQ youth and, second, in taking a stand for social justice.
Dating Abuse Fact Sheet
Presents statistics about the prevalence of dating abuse among adolescents, information on the associated health risks, and issues to consider in helping teens cultivate healthy relationships.
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.
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.
Focus on Prevention
Offers brief, practical, and easy-to-read information that is useful in planning and delivering prevention strategies.
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.
Fruits & Vegetables Galore
Provides tips on planning, purchasing, preparing, presenting, and promoting fruits and vegetables along with suggestions for working with teachers.
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.
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.
Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning
Provides guidance for improving students’ relationships with teachers to promote students’ academic and social development.
Maximizing Your Role as a Teen Influencer: What You Can Do To Help Prevent Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
Includes a complete workshop module, handouts and instructions, as well as real-life scenarios and information about warning signs and symptoms, common myths about teen prescription drug abuse, brochures and sample promotional materials.
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.
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.
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.
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 Families in Your Community: 2008 Resource Packet
Suggests strategies and provides numerous resources for building the protective factors associated with child abuse prevention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tips for Talking to Children and Youth After Traumatic Events: A Guide for Parents and Educators
Helps parents and teachers recognize and address problems in children and teens affected by trauma after an act of violence; describes signs of stress reactions that are common in young trauma survivors at different ages, and offers tips on how to help.
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.
Youths' Choice of Consultant for Serious Problems Related to Substance Use
Presents statistics on consultants (e.g., parent, friend, sibling) that teens talk to about serious problems, including substance use; examines if cigarette, alcohol, and drug use varies with choice of consultant and if the choice varies with age and gender.
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: 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.
4-1-1 on Bullying
Provides a summary of the research and research to practice strategies regarding bullying, as well as current research updates and many resources for parents, teachers, and students.
Adolescents with Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders: 2003
Compares teen treatment admissions with co-occurring disorders to those adolescent admissions with a substance abuse problem only; examines gender, race or ethnicity, referral source, primary substance of abuse, service setting, and education.
Age at First Use of Marijuana and Past Year Serious Mental Illness
Focuses on the association between age at first use of marijuana and past-year serious mental illness (SMI) and includes statistics on lifetime marijuana use, age at first use of marijuana, past-year SMI, and age at first use of marijuana and past-year SMI.
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.
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.
Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17
Examines youths' (ages 12-17) past-year major depressive episodes (MDE), past year initiation of alcohol and illicit drug use, and the association between MDE and the initiation of alcohol or other drug use.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Substance Use and the Risk of Suicide Among Youths
Provides information on survey responses from youths ages 12 to 17 to questions about whether they had thought seriously about killing themselves or tried to kill themselves during the 12 months before the survey interview.
Variable Effects of Children's Aggression, Social Withdrawal, Prosocial Leadership as Functions of Teacher Beliefs and Behaviors
Examines the influence of teachers’ beliefs about aggression and withdrawal and overall caring and support of students on children’s social behaviors, to include engaging in aggression or withdrawal and reported peer acceptance and self-perceived social competence.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
CSAP's Prevention Pathways (Online Courses)
Examines the causes and effects of bullying, suicide, and substance use, prevention techniques and programs, screening, treatment options, and legal and ethical issues surrounding these issues.
Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention
60-minute, interactive training designed to help educators, youth-serving organizations, and others working with teens understand the risk factors and warning signs associated with teen dating violence.
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.
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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Students |
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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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Students, Staff |
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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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Students, Faculty/Staff, Parents |
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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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Students, Teachers |
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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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Students |
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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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Students |
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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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Faculty |
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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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Students, Staff |
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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. |