School Climate and Culture

ACSA Member Assistance Advocates answer key questions on the role of a mandated reporter in schools.

More than one in four students report having been bullied at school. And yet just 20–30 percent of bullied students notify adults.

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.

Preventing school violence and ensuring school safety have become dominant topics and part of an ongoing national conversation.

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.

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.

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."

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.

The rise of social justice movements in recent years have led public entities to carefully re-consider their policies, practices, and programs.

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.

The one factor that surfaced as the single most influential component of an effective school is the individual teachers within that school.

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

Principals serve as lead culture builders who design school communities through effective forms of teacher leadership.

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.

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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