News: School Climate
Evaluating the Essential Characteristics of Staff Cohesion and Collaboration: Assessing This Summer What You Want to See This Fall (Part IV)
The Blog discusses the seven characteristics (the “7 C’s”) of staff cohesion and collaboration: Communication, Caring, Commitment, Collaboration, Consultation, Celebration, and Consistency. The resear...
Read Full ArticleSchool Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management: The Summer Preparations Needed for Excellence This Fall (Part II)
The Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to improve school discipline, classroom management, and student self-management during the coming new school year. It first describes th...
Read Full ArticleFive Essential Skill Sets for Middle and High School Students During Uncertain Times: Future-Proofing Their School Success—Now and After Graduation
This Blog discusses five specific Skill Sets that middle and high school students need to be successful academically and socially during uncertain times—especially since the pandemic. The Skill Sets f...
Read Full ArticleStudents’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss
This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...
Read Full ArticleEducation’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation
This Blog revisits the 24 Blogs published this year, re-organizing them into four themes as part of an education-focused “Year in Review.” A brief analysis of these themes is provided relative to wher...
Read Full ArticleHow Fad or Flawed School Programs Increase Poor Teacher Morale and Resistance to Change: When Education Keeps Adopting the Same Shaky Stuff, It Will Keep Getting Repeated Rocky Results (Part V)
Blog reviewed and integrated recent articles reporting that (a) teachers’ job satisfaction and mental health worsened last year, as did the need for student supports and interventions; and (b) distric...
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