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5 Things You Can Do: Climate
1. Measure the Quality of Your Climate for Learning
The Center for Social and Emotional Education (CSEE) helps schools
integrate crucial social and emotional learning with academic
instruction. In doing so, CSEE helps schools enhance student
performance, prevent drop outs, reduce physical violence, bullying, and
develop healthy and positively engaged adults.
To learn more about CSEE, including its whole-school climate assessment measures, click here.
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2. Attend to Your Students’ Social and Emotional Learning Needs
CASEL, or the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional
Learning, is a collaborative that works to advance the science and
evidence-based practice of social and emotional learning (SEL).
The CASEL approach conducts and gathers research that provides the
scientific foundation for SEL and evidence of its impacts. In addition,
CASEL works closely with educational leaders in the field to bridge
science and practice, putting research and theory to the test in
real-world settings.
CASEL’s Web site features links to a variety of tools for evaluating
the social and emotional climate of your school. To learn more, click here.
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3. Build a Climate of Trust
The work of schools takes place in social contexts in which trust is
perhaps the most essential determinant of organizational health. The
relationships between educators, educators and students, educators and
families, and educators and community members impact student learning
in very direct and real ways.
As Anthony Bryk and Barbara Schneider explain in Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement,
“Good schools are intrinsically social enterprises that depend heavily
on cooperative endeavors among the varied participants who comprise the
school community. Relational trust constitutes the connective tissue
that binds these individuals together around advancing the education
and welfare of children. Improving schools requires us to think harder
about how best to organize the work of adults and students so that this
connective tissue remains healthy and strong.”
To learn more about relational trust in schools, including the critical attributes that help build a climate of trust, click here.
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4. Foster the Three R’s of Civil Friction
Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center and a
national authority on religious liberty, believes a deeper
understanding of the First Amendment’s five freedoms can help schools
find common ground on the issues that most deeply divide them. “We have
found,” he says, “that where communities are committed to coming
together in the spirit of the First Amendment, consensus is reached,
new policies are drafted, and significant changes take place in the
classroom.”
At the heart of that spirit is a framework for balanced, “civil friction” Haynes calls the “Three R’s”:
- Rights: The First Amendment’s guarantee to protect
freedom of conscience is a precious, fundamental and inalienable right
for all. Every effort should be made in public schools to protect the
consciences of all people.
- Responsibilities: Central
to the notion of the common good is the recognition that the First
Amendment’s five freedoms (religion, speech, press, assembly, petition)
are universal rights joined to a universal duty to respect the rights
of others. Rights are best guarded and responsibilities best exercised
when each person and group guards for all others those rights they wish
guarded for themselves.
- Respect: Conflict and debate
are vital to democracy. Yet if controversies about freedom in schools
are to reflect the highest wisdom of the First Amendment and advance
the best interest of the nation, how we debate, and not only what we
debate, is critical.
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5. Nurture Ethics and Character
The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character (CAEC) at Boston
University was founded in 1989. The purpose of the Center is to address
the broad range of issues related to young people acquiring sound
ethical values and forming good character. While this is a broad
mission, to date the work of the Center has focused on the
responsibilities of teachers and schools.
To learn more about CAEC, and to access its resources for educators, parents and students, click here.
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