This catchall category was used to cluster a number of goals described below. Those qualities, coupled with the fact the Board has not yet addressed the matter of measures for climate, means that this memo designed to reflect Board consensus can do little more than indicate the issues and offer very tentative suggestions. This memo is available online in a version that includes hot links to the referenced documents.
Sociologists talk about feeling the walls of an institution.
A positive educational climate is something we feel more than measure in a school or classroom. Measures of Educational Climate Some aspects of educational climate can be measured, others cannot at least not easily. Those that can are subject to ends that call for improvement in positive numbers and reductions in negative numbers. Safety can be measured in terms of reported incidents of physical abuse and injury or sexual harassment and the disciplinary actions taken. Some elements of parental involvement can be counted, such as the attendance at school events, percentages of parents active in a school s PTO, or the number who sign off on their children s homework.