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Discusses implementing programs that ensure school safety and academic success, covering what makes up Iowa's program as an example. Demonstrates Iowa's success via participation in standard LEA implementation activities and their Safe School Certification Program as well as via completing items on an implementation checklist.
Assists school leaders to improve school climate, which includes guidance to develop a plan to improve adult-student relationships. The toolkit provides a picture of a sample plan and the step-by-step process for successfully creating a plan to improve the climate in a school.
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.
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).
Rates programs and curricula based on a review of national registries of evidence-based programs and identifies common elements and defines levels of quality for each element. This rubric can assist districts in selecting programs for inclusion in implementation plans.
Coe College has received a $15,350 Institutionalizing Community-Based Pedagogies grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The grant will support the creation of a new Prison Learning Initiative at Coe which will provide a range of high-impact experiences for students and community members to learn about and become involved with the criminal-legal system in Iowa and the Midwest.
In “Development of a School Survey and Index as a School Performance Measure in Maryland: A REL–MSDE Research Partnership,” Tim Kautz, Charles Tilley, Christine Ross, and Natalie Larkin detail Maryland’s development and validation of a school climate survey and the process for developing an overall index of climate for each school.
This week, four men exchanged their prison attire for caps and gowns as part of the Goucher College graduation ceremony at Maryland Correctional Institution-Jessup. In years to come, there is likely to be a lot more pomp and circumstance in fortified compounds guarded by razor wire.