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HHS/Office of Adolescent Health Updates State-by-State Adolescent Mental Health Facts. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health has recently updated its state summaries that focus on adolescent mental health. Each state page reports on positive social skills, depressive symptoms, depressive episodes and suicidal thoughts, attempts, and injuries. Learn More
Safety |
School safety refers to the security of the school setting and school-related activities as perceived and experienced by all stakeholders, including families, caregivers, students, school staff, and the community. School safety encompasses both emotional and physical safety, and is influenced by positive and negative behaviors of students and staff as well as the presence of substance use in the school setting and during school-related activities. The following products, research articles and briefs, and tools provide an overview of issues and concerns related to school safety, as well as tools and strategies to address components of emotional and physical safety in the school setting.
Assessing Peer Conflict and Aggressive Behaviors: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Practitioners
Helps program staff identify causes, types, and effects of peer conflict and aggressive behaviors, provides information on how to assess the prevalence of such behaviors, and discusses ways to promote positive peer conflict resolution techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Integrating Mental Health Promotion and Substance Abuse Prevention on College Campuses
Describes research on the nature and extent of mental and emotional disorders among colleges students and students and gives examples of campus-based programs to integrate mental health and substance abuse services.
Psychosocial Issues for Children and Adolescents in Disasters
Offers resources for those working with children in the wake of disaster. Discusses theories of child development as applied to a youth experiencing the fear, anxiety, and trauma of disaster. Offers practical suggestions, case studies, and a resource guide.
SCOPE Thought Piece
Provides thoughts from an assembled group of prevention education practitioners and experts on the biggest questions facing prevention educators today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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-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 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.
Safe Communities, Safe Schools: School Safety Glossary
Simple, concise tool for schools, families, and communities.
2011 OSDFS National Conference: Educational Support Groups: Teaching Skills to Overcome Adversity
Explores how and why support groups work so that students can become engaged and succeed in spite of emotional and social protections not available in classrooms. Includes sample activities.
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: 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”.
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.
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.
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.
Websites
National Association of School Psychologists
Represents school psychology and supports school psychologists to enhance the learning and mental health of all children and youth. Houses resources like professional development tools for school psychologists and tools for addressing behavioral and emotional problems in schools.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Combines knowledge of child development, expertise in the full range of child traumatic experiences, and attention to cultural perspectives to serve as a national resource for developing and disseminating evidence-based interventions, trauma-informed services, and public and professional education. Offers resources such as fact sheets and toolkits tailored to all audience groups.
American Federation of Teachers
Houses free products and tools on topic it calls "Safe, Orderly and Healthy Schools" and serves as a membership organization for teachers, providing members a wealth of resources on teaching, including periodicals and videos.
Project Youth Safety
Comprehensive multimedia, multicultural public awareness initiative promoting child and youth safety at the community level focusing on six different child/youth safety issues: Youth in Crisis; Impact of Domestic Violence on Youth; Child Sexual Abuse; Teen Dating Violence; Child Abuse & Neglect in a Southeast Asian Community; and Cell Phone Safety for Ages 8 & up.
Take Action to Protect Children
Provides online resources, tips, hotline numbers, and a personal call to action tailored for professionals in various fields who work with children who experience or witness violence.
Safe Start Initiative
National resource center that seeks to broaden the knowledge of and promote community investment in evidence-based strategies for reducing the impact of children's exposure to violence.
National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth
Information resource of the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving FYSB grantees and others working with at-risk youth and families. Offers articles, publications, podcasts and other tools on topics like Cultural Competence, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Permanent Connections, Positive Youth Development, Relationship Violence and Sexual Exploitation, Runaway and Homeless Youth, and Well-Being.
Scarleteen
Provides content and interaction which seeks to provide developmentally and culturally-appropriate sexuality education and information that reflects the diversity of people and sexuality.
Suicide Prevention Resources
Provides resources about suicide prevention, information about a national strategy for suicide prevention, data and trends, and youth-specific information.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Provides states, providers, communities and the public with the best and most up-to-date information about behavioral health issues and prevention/treatment approaches.
Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative TA Center
Provides students, schools, and communities with federal funding to implement an enhanced, coordinated, and comprehensive plan of activities and services that focus on promoting healthy childhood development and preventing violence and substance abuse.
Office of Safe and Healthy Students
Provides information on programs, grants, and policies addressing drug and violence prevention, character and civic education, and physical education.
Find Youth Info
Provides information and resources on youth engagement; youth development, mental health, safety, transportation, housing and employment.
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.
News Clips
IN Elementary School Students Give Up Violent Video Games
Students in an Indiana elementary school have voluntarily agreed to give up violent video games and other media following concerns that such games could lead students to be desensitized to violence. Parents say they support the change, especially following the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. In four days, officials say families turned in 70 violent games that will be recycled.
CT Tragedy Highlights Importance of School Mental-health Services
Former special educator Jennifer Cerbasi writes in this commentary that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., highlights the need for more resources devoted to the mental and emotional health of students. Often targeted for budget cuts, all schools need full-time counselors and psychologists, she notes.
Behavior Problems Tied to Lower Grades for Depressed Adolescents
For students with depression, their condition isn't what may cause poor grades in school, a new study published in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior finds. What hurts these students' grades more than the condition itself are the behavior problems, such as issues with attention, delinquency, and substance abuse, that depressed students may also have, said Jane D. McLeod, the study's lead author and a sociology professor and an associate dean at Indiana University.
Civil Rights Office Reflects on Discipline, Bullying, Violence Issues
The office for civil rights maintains that minority students are disciplined more harshly and more frequently than other students, "resulting in serious, negative educational consequences, particularly when such students are excluded from school." One analysis of data collected by the agency from the 2009-10 school year found that one in six black students was suspended out of school at least once that school year.
Students Face Violence, Victimization, Suicidal Thoughts
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found that an increase in suicidal thoughts in adolescents appears to be associated with recent victimization, including by peers, a sexual assault, or other maltreatment. In the study, adolescents who had been victimized by peers were more than twice as likely to contemplate suicide than peers. Sexual assault increased these thoughts by more than 300 percent. And those who researchers defined as maltreated were more than four times as likely to experience "suicidal ideation."
Evidence of Dating Violence Found Among Middle School Students
Nearly one in 11 high school students have reported experiencing some form of dating violence, according to a national study, and some local officials say they're seeing alarming numbers and evidence of abusive relationships among even younger students. One in six seventh-grade students reported being a victim of physical abuse at the hands of a boyfriend or girlfriend, according to a national study conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Blue Shield of California.
CA Students Report Better Mental Health
Palo Alto youth are emotionally healthier than they were two years ago, according to newly released data from the California Healthy Kids Survey. The percentage of ninth- and 11th-graders who said they had seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months dropped from 18 percent to 11 percent. Percentages also dropped for ninth- and 11th-graders who reported feeling "so sad and hopeless" for at least two weeks that they stopped doing some of their usual activities.
Forum on Relationship Education and Vulnerable Youth
Annie E. Casey Foundation, It’s My Community Initiative, The Innovation Center and Child Trends is sponsoring a public forum to interact with what is known about relationship education for vulnerable youth, the benefits of said education given the disruptive relationships many youth in the foster care system have encountered, and the importance of setting an informed agenda for research, policy and practice.
Strategies to Ensure a Healthy Adolescence
On September 13, 2012, at 2 p.m. E.T., the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in conjunction with the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention, will present the 90-minute Webinar “Strategies to Ensure a Healthy Adolescence.” Presenters will provide an overview of healthy adolescent development, how to identify and implement protective factors, and the importance of pro-social messaging when creating a positive peer culture.
PTA Offers Advice on Talking to Kids After Movie Shootings
To address the challenges families will face in speaking with their children about this tragedy, National PTA offers several supportive resources to assist parents, families, schools, and PTAs.
Study: Self-Injury Common in Grade School
Self-injury is a common emotional disorder among teens and young adults, and now new research confirms that young children also injure themselves on purpose. In one of the first studies ever to assess self-injury rates among children as young as age 7, close to 7% of 3rd grade girls and 8% of 3rd grade boys said they had self-injured at some point in their lives.
Teachers Need More Training to Handle Children’s Emotions
Student teachers learn a lot about how to teach in college, but they don’t get much training in how to respond to young children’s emotions, such as frustration, anger, and excitement, according to new research. Regulating emotions is important not only for young children, but for their long-term success as they move into higher grades.
NYC Mayor Proposes After-school Programs Budget Cuts
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing to reduce the city's after-school enrichment programs in a budget-cutting move designed to save $19 million, or about one-quarter of 1 percent of the total city budget. The programs slated for elimination run from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., and serve 27,000 children, most of them from poor or blue-collar families whose parents may not be able to afford other after-school child care.
Raising Resilience: How All Adults Can Help Kids to Rise above Bullying (Free Webinar)
On May 16th, Search Institute is hosting a webinar featuring resilience and family-based prevention science expert, Dr. Doug Coatsworth. Participants will learn to recognize the difference between “bullying” and “conflict”; understand why raising resilient kids is essential to rising above bullying; and learn how to nurture a child’s resilience characteristics, like empowerment, empathy, and self-control.
To learn more and register, click here.
Bullying and Suicidal Behaviors Among Urban High School Youth
Urban youth who have been bullied or bully others may be at increased risk of suicide according to new research.
Professional Help: 5 Ways to Stop Dating Violence Among Teens
Psychology of Violence editor Sherry Hamby shares five ways parents intervene to help their teens forge healthy romantic relationships and curb teen dating abuse.
How Impressive Are 'The Incredible Years'? Researchers Can't Say
A new review of the research about The Incredible Years, an intervention composed of training programs for children, parents, and teachers intended to reduce children's aggression and improve their social skills, has found no clear conclusions can be drawn about the program's effectiveness for preschool age children with disabilities.
Study: Bullying a Strong Risk Factor for Suicide in Gay Youth
In a new study, reported in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers surveyed 246 LGBT youth aged 16 to 20 and followed them over several years to see what happened to them. Being bullied (over the time period of the study) and a low level of support from others boosted the risk that the teens would become suicidal. Bullying also boosted the risk that they would try to harm themselves.
Settling School Disputes Before They Escalate
A program funded by the nonprofit Center for Civic Mediation is teaching students in a troubled California middle school to act as peer mediators. The students learn conflict-resolution and other skills as part of the program, which is aimed at reducing school violence and suspensions by resolving disputes before they escalate.
Psychologists, Educators See Facebook as Aid in Suicide Prevention
In the emerging social landscape, mental health professionals, universities and schools are facing new questions about how the Internet should be used to help emotionally suffering individuals. As schools strive to balance the need to protect individuals’ privacy and the need to keep students safe, some experts said it’s likely that schools will have to clarify how their staff handles electronic communication when responding to students in distress.
Special Preschool Helps Address Students' Behavioral Challenges
A preschool in Ohio offers short-term interventions for preschool students with behavioral and mental health challenges who have been suspended from other area preschool programs. Educators at the school use puppets and other hands-on strategies to help teach positive behavior and impulse control to students, who typically attend the school for three to six months.
Youth Sexting Not All That Common, Reports Find
Illegal actions involving sexting befall a relatively small number of youth Internet users nationally, according to two reports from the University of New Hampshire. But the reports focus on transmission of videos and pictures, and don't address sexually explicit text-based messages.
Study: Adolescent Suicide Risk Can Start in Middle School
A new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health suggests the risks for depressed children can start much earlier than expected: Nearly 40 percent of adolescents who attempt suicide first try to kill themselves before high school.
A Place at School Where Students Can Unload Stress and Worry
The San Francisco Unified School District has built a pioneering support network to improve students' social and emotional well-being.
Bisexual Teens at Highest Risk of Bullying and Suicide
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and those questioning their sexuality are at greater risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, bullying by their peers and truancy, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois.
Emotional Distress More Common in Sexting Students
Students who sent or received "sext" messages or were "sexting" victims were more likely to report psychological distress compared with students not involved in sexting, a 2010 study of 23,187 high school students in Boston found.
Crying Found to Give College Football Players a 'Mental Edge'
College football players who felt comfortable displaying emotion—both positive (happiness) and negative (sadness)—were found to have higher self-esteem than those who shunned emotion, according to two papers in Psychology of Men & Masculinity, a journal published by the American Psychological Association.
Federal Authorities Investigate School District After Civil Rights Complaint
The Justice Department together with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights are looking into "allegations of harassment and discrimination in the Anoka-Hennepin School District based on sex, including peer-on-peer harassment based on not conforming to gender stereotypes," according to a district memo.
Does a Bad Classroom Climate Lead to Stressed Students?.
Researchers have looked at how bad jobs affect adults’ mental health. One of the first studies to turn a similar lens on schools suggests a bad classroom climate can shape children’s emotional well-being too.
School Climate a Key Factor in Feelings of Safety
A University of Arizona College of Education faculty member led an investigation into the perceptions students and teachers throughout Arizona hold about campus safety, finding that each school's climate plays a large role in what people believe.
Supportive Environment Cuts Suicide Attempts by Gay Teens
Gay and bisexual teens are five times as likely as heterosexual peers to attempt suicide, according to new research — but a supportive social environment can cut that rate by one-fifth.
‘Day Of Silence’ Shows How Bullying, Hate Crimes Silence Youth
Friday, April 15 marks the “Day of Silence” – a day in which hundreds of thousands of students nationwide take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-gay name-calling, bullying and harassment in their schools.
New Books, Apps Teach Kids About Their Emotions
Magination Press, the American Psychological Association's children's book imprint, has released a self-help book for older kids called Understanding Myself: A Kid's Guide to Intense Emotions and Strong Feelings. It has also released a book for younger kids as an iPad app, called The Grouchies.
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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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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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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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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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. |
