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Presents an easy to follow guide on how to conduct focus groups with students, teachers, and school faculty by providing detailed answers, tips, and best practices. Includes strategies to refine research questions and step-by-step details for analyzing data.
Describes what federal civil rights protections extend to all operations of charter schools and how, including school climate (including prevention of harassment) and disciplinary measures (including suspensions and expulsions).
Includes information for schools that want to get moving right away to improve school climate. This toolkit contains an implementation readiness guide, sample plan, and details six steps that can move a school through a change process.
Shares what the Federal Commission on School Safety found in research and recommends to advance safety in schools via prevention, protection and mitigation, and response and recovery. It touches on promoting mental health, addressing related discipline issues, and violence in schools.
Provides links to evaluation tools -- like surveys, observation tools, and artifact reviews -- used to measure teacher and principal effectiveness. The database includes evaluation tools that use school climate metrics to help assess educator practice.
Presents results from phone interviews with principals and LEA coordinators for readers interested in the details of the Iowa Safe and Supportive Schools (IS3) evaluation. Includes detailed qualitative and quantitative data and themes learned about each question asked.
Used for progress monitoring throughout the Iowa Safe and Supportive Schools (IS3) grant and was set up as an online survey (using SurveyMonkey). IS3 Area Education Agency coordinators completed the checklist periodically each year for each of their assigned schools.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
Indicates programs that have evidence of effectiveness documented by various clearinghouses. Iowa school districts used this resource to help them respond to needs with evidence-based programs.
Explains how schools and districts can create a continuum map to graphically document all of the supports available to students across content areas and identify which students receive those supports across three tiers. Continuum maps can help stakeholders understand the activities and resources available in a school or district.