School Climate and Culture
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Changing school culture: Successful strategies from a high school principal
Find out what strategies Amy Belser, principal of Bear River High School, used to achieve this goal and how she inspired other educational leaders to implement them at their schools.
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What proactive practices can best promote a positive school climate?
Educational leaders are seeking ways to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline practices like out-of-school suspensions (OSS) and expulsions.
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Mandated reporters have important duties
ACSA Member Assistance Advocates answer key questions on the role of a mandated reporter in schools.
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How to prevent bullying in the classroom: 4 proactive tips for teachers
More than one in four students report having been bullied at school. And yet just 20–30 percent of bullied students notify adults.
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District uses Prop. 56 funds to combat student vaping
In an effort to address this new epidemic, the Las Virgenes USD has been aggressive in its efforts to educate students, parents and staff, while enforcing rules and regulations on vaping.
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School Safety and New Guidance on Addressing School Violence
Preventing school violence and ensuring school safety have become dominant topics and part of an ongoing national conversation.
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9th Circuit Shoots Down Challenge to Law Prohibiting Concealed-Carry Permit Holders
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to a 2015 change to California's Gun-Free School Zone Act, but maintained the same exemption for retired peace officers.
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Suicide on campus: How schools are dealing with the crisis
The newest student suicide cluster is no doubt sending administrators statewide into a thoughtful review process of their mental health student services and crisis intervention teams.
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Parent-Child Border Separations: Supports to Invoke Humanitarianism
An estimated 2,000 undocumented immigrant children have been separated from their families along the southwest United States border and placed in facilities that have been described as “cages."
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Episode 3: Developing Law on Social Media Accounts of Government Officials
Last year, the United States Supreme Court identified social media as “perhaps the most powerful mechanism available” today to make a person’s voice heard.
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Episode 2: Inclusivity Matters
The rise of social justice movements in recent years have led public entities to carefully re-consider their policies, practices, and programs.
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First Amendment Issues Impacting Schools: Walk-outs, social media and kneeling
Schools are tasked with making decisions impacting student and staff First Amendment rights every year, often around issues and types of speech that the courts have yet to consider.
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The number one factor in student success? Relationships with teachers
The one factor that surfaced as the single most influential component of an effective school is the individual teachers within that school.
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The FBI and Secret Service's new guidance on school violence and active shooters
The organizations have released two important documents that offer insight into pre-attack behavior of shooters and advice to help prevent targeted school violence through the use of threat assessment
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Steep Road to Resource Equity in California Education
California’s LCFF promised more resources to English learners, foster youth, and low-income students. How well is California’s education funding system delivering on that promise?
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Principals: Build school culture through teacher leadership
Principals serve as lead culture builders who design school communities through effective forms of teacher leadership.
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Black Minds Matter
Examine how the nearly one million Black youth in California are faring from preschool through college.
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Lawmakers extend limits on disruption and defiance discipline, expand use of uniform complaint procedures
State lawmakers have indefinitely extended previously approved limits on disciplining students for defiance and disruption and have expanded the list of issues that may be addressed through the UCP.
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School success takes a community
The purpose of this case study is to explore how engaging the community can help bring visible results to the school in the form of student achievement, wellness and school pride.
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Top 7 things districts should know about civil rights in the 21st century
AALRR provides legal tools and practical guidance to achieve excellence.
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