ASSC - Research Links

ASSC Research

Exploring the School Climate -- Student Achievement Connection: And Making Sense of Why the First Precedes the Second
Inciting Something Better than "Best Practice:" Taking a Closer Look at the Relationships among Classroom Management Practice, School Climate and Student Achievement
What is Transformative Leader and Teacher Preparation?
Exploring Below the Surface: School Climate Assessment and Improvement as the Key to Bridging the Achievement Gap
Creating a More Peaceful Classroom Community by Assessing Student Participation and Process
Does Seeking to Create a Better Classroom Climate lead to Student Success and/or Improved Teaching? Examining the Relationship Between Pedagogical Choices and Classroom Climate in Urban Secondary Schools
"Architect and Steward: Shaping a Vision of Learning" Examining the Role of the Principal in the Immersion of New Teachers into Existing Urban School Climates
Sharing the Data along with the Responsibility: Examining an Analytic Scale-based Model for Assessing School Climate
"Don't Smile 'til Christmas:" Examining the Immersion of New Teachers into Existing Urban School Climates
Teaching for the Success of all Learning Styles: Five Principles for Promoting Greater Teacher Effectiveness and Higher Student Achievement for all Students

Transformative Leader Book Series - Coming soon

Commission Reports

Closing the Achievement Gap. 2008 Report of Jack O'Connell's California P-16 Counsel
Report outlines the recommendations from the CA superintendent of Public Instruction related to promoting higher level of achievement and improving the performance of schools with high minority populations. Recommendation #5 is to conduct a School Climate Evaluation. ASSC (formerly WASSC) is featured in the report. ASSC has been put on a "short list" of providers from the state.

School Climate Research

What Parents Suggest Is Important - A Longitudinal Trend Study of Parent Perceptions Of School District Climate
Principal Behaviors that Encourage Teachers to Stay in the Profession: Perceptions of K-8 Teachers in their Second to Fifth Year of Teaching
A set of five sessions recorded at the 2006 ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago that address various aspects of school climate
GLSEN's 2005 National School Climate Survey
School climate key to curbing violence
Bathrooms as predictors of school climate
Principal Leadership, School Climate Critical to Retaining Beginning Teachers, Duke Study Finds
School Climate Predictors of School Disorder: Results from a National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools
Good School Climate translates into Higher Academic Achievement
What we Think: An In-Depth Research Study on Urban School Climate
School Size, School Climate, and Student Performance
NW Regional Education Laboratory, School Improvement Research Series (SIRS).
Creating the School Climate and Structures to Support Parent and Family Involvement
Evidence shows a strong connection between parent and family involvement in schools...
Quality Counts 2001: A Better Balance
Classroom Management School Climate and Violence
University of Arkansas
GLSEN News
National School Climate Survey
Measuring School Climate: Let Me Count the Ways
H. Jerome Freiberg, University of Houston
Topic: School Climate Survey
Forum: Principal Online Open Forum, National Association of Elementary School Principals