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4.2 Facilities Conducive to Learning Facilities support a safe and orderly environment conducive to student learning. 
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Related Resources Tools Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools It is argued that schools can be made safer by understanding what leads to violence and effective ways of preventing it. This guide discusses the characteristics of safe schools, early warning signs of violence, how to help troubled children, how to develop a prevention and response plan, and how to respond to a crisis. This guide is available in a variety of formats, including an online browseable version divided into sections, a PDF document, and referenced version. It is also available in Spanish. Publication Date: August 1998 Publisher: Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice, American Institutes for Research Articles NEW! Using the Right Data to Determine if High School Interventions Are Working to Prepare Students for College and Careers Author: Chrys Dougherty Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: National High School Center NEW! Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom This guide offers strategies to reduce problematic behavior in elementary schools. Author: Michael Epstein, Marc Atkins, Douglas Cullinan, Krista Kutash, and Robin Weaver Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education NEW! The Forgotten Middle: Ensuring that All Students are on Target for College and Career Readiness before High School This article discusses the importance of the middle grades in ensuring students are prepared for college. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: ACT Are Small Schools Better? School Size Considerations for Safety and Learning This policy brief looks at what the research says about why school size appears to make a difference, how small is small enough, effective approaches to downsizing, and key barriers. Author: Joan McRobbie Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: WestEd Creating a Climate for Learning: Effective Classroom Management Techniques This article suggests 12 steps teachers can take at the beginning of the year to promote effective classroom management. Author: Linda Starr Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Education World Every Child Learning: Safe and Supportive Schools It is argued that safe and supportive schools can be more successful at both promoting student achievement and developing students into good citizens. Adopted by Learning First Alliance, an organization composed of 12 national education agencies, this guide identifies four research-based elements essential to safe and supportive schools, and makes recommendations on how schools and districts can build safe and supportive learning communities. Note: You must first provide some contact information in order to view documents on this site. Publication Date: November, 2001 Publisher: Learning First Alliance How Can Research on the Brain Inform Education? Over the past decade, people have studied the connection between the way the brain functions and how it can impact classroom learning. This article provides information about neurological structure and the attendant perceptions and emotions that are factors in learning and creating a comfortable atmosphere. Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory School Safety: What Schools Can Do Appropriate physical features, campus layout, prevention programs, policies, and procedures of schools can minimize the impact of disruptions and intrusions. This article provides research that supports the effectiveness of these action items. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Arizona Department of Education The First Five Minutes Are Critical The authors explain the importance of making every second in the classroom count, as well as provide examples of how to utilize the first five minutes of class. Author: Harry and Rosemary Wong Publication Date: 2000, November Publisher: Teacher.Net Gazette The School Climate Challenge: Narrowing the Gap Between School Climate Research and School Climate Policy School climate research shows that a caring and responsive school climate is associated with increased academic achievement as well as teacher retention. This document discusses the research behind these findings. Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Education Commission of the States What Research Says about Small Classes and Their Effects This WestEd report focuses on class size and discusses current research surrounding this topic. Author: Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: WestEd Why New Teachers Leave This article discusses some of the issues new teachers face that eventually make them leave the teaching profession. Author: Leslie Baldacci Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Useful Links NEW! AZ Response to Intervention (RTI) The Response to Intervention (RTI) process is a multi-tiered approach to providing services and interventions to all learners at increasing levels of intensity. This page offers resources to Arizona educators regarding the academic and behavioral system of support. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Afterschool Training Toolkit The best afterschool programs do two things: they engage students in fun activities that create a desire to learn, and they build on what students are learning during the school day to extend the knowledge they already have. This toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative, and academically enriching activities that not only engage students, but extend their knowledge in new ways and increase academic achievement. Publisher: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) Cognitive Strategy Instruction - Reading This website offers different strategies regarding word identification, reading comprehension, and textbook reading. Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Meeting the Challenge: All Students Achieving Proficiency by 2014 The Southwest Comprehensive Center held a regional conference for SEA leadership teams on April 4-5, 2006. As the centerpiece of the conference, CC staff worked with Content Centers to identify research studies. This page contains the summaries of the findings. Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Southwest Comprehensive Center National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities This website includes links to news and resources in areas such as disaster preparedness, classroom design, urban school facility issues, and healthy school environments. ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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