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Stages, Tasks and Challenges

The five-stage school climate improvement process is characterized by a series of tasks and challenges noted below. The School Climate Improvement Road Map or guidelines and tools designed to support schools understanding and mastering these tasks and challenges.

Stage One: Preparation and Planning

  • Forming a representative SC improvement leadership team and establishing ground rules collaboratively.
  • Building support and fostering "Buy In" for the school climate improvement process.
  • Establishing a "no fault" framework and promoting a culture of trust.
  • Ensuring your team has adequate resources to support the process.
  • Celebrating successes and building on past efforts
  • Reflecting on Stage One work
Stage Two: Evaluation
  • Systematically evaluating the school's strengths, needs and weaknesses with any number of school climate as well as other potential measurement tools
  • Developing plans to share evaluation findings with the school community
  • Reflecting on our Stage Two work
Stage Three: Understanding the findings, Engagement & developing an action plan
  • Understanding the evaluation findings
  • Digging into the findings to understand areas of consensus and discrepancy in order to promote learning and engagement.
  • Prioritizing Goals
  • Researching best practices and evidence-based instructional and systemic programs and efforts
  • Developing an action plan
  • Reflecting on Stage Three work
Stage Four: Implementing the Action Plan
  • Coordinating evidence-based pedagogic and systemic efforts designed to (a) promote students' social, emotional and civic as well as intellectual competencies; and (b) improve the school climate by working toward a safe, caring, participatory and responsive school community.
  • The instructional and/or school-wide efforts are instituted with fidelity, monitored and there is an ongoing attempt to learn from successes and challenges.
  • The adults who teach and learn with students work to further their own social, emotional and civic learning.
  • Reflecting on Stage Four work.
Stage Five: Reevaluation and Development of the Next Phase
  • Reevaluating the school's strengths and challenges
  • Discovering what has changed and how.
  • Discovering what has most helped and hindered further the school climate improvement process
  • Revising plans to improve the school climate.
  • Reflecting on Stage Five work