School Climate

“Take HEART" Awareness Week is May 6-10, 2024. This public awareness campaign promotes collaborations that support the mental health and well-being of everyone in the school building. School teams are invited to share daily calls to action, talking points, infographics, and additional resources to spread the word about the importance ...

This webpage contains resources designed to equip educators, students, parents, and community members with the knowledge and strategies to challenge religious and racial discrimination and foster spaces where every student feels valued and can thrive academically and socially. Resources are provided for K-12 and college/university environments. Learn more.  ...

This webpage contains briefs summarizing a six-part webinar series designed to Raise the Bar for family engagement practices between school and home. The series provided an overview of evidence, highlighted bright spots in the field, and shared resources and evidence-based strategies to support student success with education leaders and practitioners. ...

This infographic (PDF, 3 pages) outlines the benefits of creating a positive school climate and shares strategies and resources for enhancing school safety, fostering school connectedness and relationships, and enabling a supportive environment. Learn more (PDF, 3 pages). 

This virtual training series will highlight key findings and implications of the National Threat Assessment Center’s (NTAC) research on school violence prevention. Attendees will learn about the background, thinking, and behavior of school attackers and how some schools discovered and stopped plots before violence occurred. This series will also provide ...

This resource is designed to strengthen K-12 schools’ and school districts’ emergency operations plans (EOPs) and identify gaps and weaknesses. This training package includes detailed instructions for using the package; supplemental resources on emergency exercises; fact sheets sharing best practices for conducting emergency exercises and developing after-action reports; and four ...

This fact sheet offers information for core planning team members and safety leaders at K-12 schools and school districts on elements to include in their Recovery Annex that address and prepare the education agency for the loss of a member of the school community. Learn more (PDF, 13 pages). 

This fact sheet (PDF, 4 pages) describes the obligations of public K-12 schools in protecting the rights of students with asthma under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The fact sheet defines asthma as a protected disability under Section 504, describes how it may impact a student’s experience ...

This fact sheet (PDF, 4 pages) describes the obligations of public K-12 schools in protecting the rights of students with diabetes under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The fact sheet defines diabetes as a protected disability under Section 504, describes how it may impact a student’s experience ...

This report (PDF, 52 pages) presents data on bullying in grades 6–12 from the 2022 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The tables show how bullying victimization varies by student and school characteristics such as sex, race/ethnicity, grade, household income, region, urbanicity, enrollment size, and ...