Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

School/Class Size
• Breaking Up Large High Schools: Five Common (and Understandable) Errors of Execution
• Class Size Reduction: Lessons Learned from Experience
• Dollars and Sense: The Cost Effectiveness of Small Schools
• From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School
• Safe and Supportive Schools
• School Size, Violence, Achievement and Cost: A report of the Commission on Business Efficiency of the Public Schools
• Are Small Schools and Private Schools Better for Adolescents' Emotional Adjustment?

Learning Environment
• All Together Now: Sharing Responsibility for the Whole Child
• Caring School Community
• Creating a Personalized and Orderly Learning Environment in High School
• Flexible School Facilities
• A Framework for Success for All Students
• In Our Backyard: How 3 L.A. Neighborhoods Affect Kids' Lives
• Making School a Place Where Everyone Succeeds: Belonging is Necessary for Learning
• Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform: Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
• National Dignity in Schools Campaign
• Problem-Based Learning
• Safe and Caring Schools
• Social and School Connectedness in Early Secondary School as Predictors of Late Teenage Substance Use, Mental Health, and Academic Outcomes
• Student Context, Student Attitudes and Behavior, and Academic Achievement
• Student Health and Academic Achievement
• Workbook for Improving school climate and closing the achievement gap

Classroom/School Climate
• Assess the Environment of a High School or Junior High School Classroom
• California Healthy Kids Survey
• Comprehensive School Climate Inventory
• Creating a Positive School Climate for Learning
• Creating an Effective Physical Classroom Environment
• Developing School Connectedness in Diverse Youth through Extracurricular Programming
• Differentiating Classroom Climate Concepts: Academic, Management and Emotional Environments
• Improving Middle School Climate Through Teacher-Centered Change
• Keeping Students Learning: School Climate and Student Support Systems
• Measuring and improving school climate: A strategy that recognizes, honors and promotes social, emotional and civic learning The foundation for love, work and engaged citizenry
• Positive School Climate: Students and Staff Relations
• Provide a positive and safe school climate
• A Review of School Climate Research
• Safe School Climate Ambassadors Improve School Climate
• School Climate: Building Safe, Supportive and Engaging Classrooms & Schools.
• The School Climate Challenge
• School Climate Enhancement Through Parental Involvement
• School Climate Matters newsletter
• School Climate Predictors of School Disorder: Results from a National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools
• School Climate Reform and Teen Dating Violence
• The School Environment and Adolescent Well-Being: Beyond Academics
• School Size, School Climate, and Student Performance
• Social, emotional, ethical and academic education: Creating a climate for learning, participation in democracy and well-being
• Teachers as Builders of Respectful School Climates: Implications for Adolescent Drug Use Norms and Depressive Symptoms in High School
• What is School Climate and Why is it Important?

Standards and Guidelines
• Creating an Inclusive School Environment: A Model for School Leaders
• Examining School Climate: Defining Factors and Educational Influences
• Measuring and Improving School Climate
• National School Climate Standards
• Pennsylvania Department of Education: School Climate Standards
• Resources on Climate and Culture
• School Climate (American Psychological Association)
• School Climate (North Central Regional Educational Library)
• The school climate challenge: Narrowing the gap between school climate research and school climate policy, practice guidelines and teacher education policy.
• School Climate Guide for District Policy Makers and Educational Leaders
• School Climate Implementation Road Map
• School climate: Research, policy, teacher education and practice
• School climate research summary
• School Climate Research Summary

Practice Briefs
• From the National School Climate Center

Video Clips
• Building Inclusive Schools
• The State of Equity in Public Schools

Related Agencies and Websites

• Alliance for the Study of School Climate
• Annenberg Institute for School Reform
• California Safe and Supportive Schools
• The Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate and Classroom Management
• Center for Social Organization of Schools
• Coalition for Community Schools
• Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
• National Center for School Engagement
• National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
• National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
• The National School Climate Center
• Schoolhouse Journal

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

• A School for Each Student: Personalization in a Climate of High Expectations (Paperback) by Nelson Beaudoin (2008). Pub: Eye on Education.
• Building Strong School Cultures: A Guide to Leading Change by Sharon D. Kruse and Karen Seashore Louis (2008). Corwin Press.
• Bullying Prevention: Creating a Positive School Climate And Developing Social Competence by Pamela Orpinas and Arthur M. Horne (2005). American Psychological Association.
• Finding the Heart of Your School: Using School Climate Data to Create a Climate for Learning. By Cohen, J., Shapiro, L, & Fisher, M. (2006). Principal Leadership (The journal of the National Association of Secondary School Principals), Vol. 7(4), 26-32.
• Making your school safe: Strategies to Protect Children and Promote Learning. By Devine, J. & Cohen, J. (2007). New York: Teachers College Press
• The new standards for learning. By Cohen, J. (2010). Principal Leadership, Vol. 10(1), 28-32
• Safe & Caring Schools Grades 6-8: Hundreds of Ways to Improve Academic Success and School Climate by Katia Petersen (2008). Free Spirit Publishing.
• Violence Prevention for Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate: Leaders Manual (Paperback) by Diane De Anda (2007). Research Press.

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