Don’t walk that line! Why schools need to create, and measure positive climates [HechingerReport.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/2/164:00 AM

A positive school climate boosts student achievement.

It includes a system of supportive and caring teachers, a safe learning environment, student connectedness and parental involvement.

Since conditions like these support the interests of a school’s major stakeholders, it is very important for them to know if they’re in a positive climate.

That’s why educators need to measure school climate, according to “Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,” a new study in Review of Educational Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

[For more of this story, written by Andre Perry, go to http://hechingerreport.org/don...e-positive-climates/]

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