A Climate for Academic Success: How School Climate Distinguishes Schools That Are Beating the Achievement Odds (Full Report)

By: Adam Voight, Gregory Austin, Thomas L. Hanson

This report describes a study that examines what makes successful schools different from other schools. The study adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting that school climate is an important factor for school success, and investigates whether there is an association between climate and achievement and if school climate helps educators understand how a subset of schools is consistently able to beat the odds and perform better than its peers.  more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2013

A Climate for Academic Success: How School Climate Distinguishes Schools That Are Beating the Achievement Odds (Report Summary)

By: Adam Voight, Gregory Austin, Thomas L. Hanson

A growing body of research suggests that school climate may be an important variable in explaining why some schools are more successful than others. This report contributes to this research by exploring the climate of a handful of secondary schools with extraordinary success (schools in which test scores are better than would be predicted based on their student characteristics) compared to that of other schools, including those that consistently underperform.  more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2013
Order #: HD-13-01

Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative Annual Report 2011/2012

Produced by: WestEd, California Department of Education, California Community Colleges

Learn how the Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative helped students over the last seven years experience a seamless career technical education from middle school through community college.  more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

Handbook of School Violence and School Safety, 2nd Edition

International Research and Practice

Edited by: Shane Jimerson, Amanda Nickerson, Matthew J. Mayer, Michael J. Furlong

Every child deserves to attend a school that is safe, secure, and peaceful. This updated handbook summarizes and discusses current research on effective violence prevention and intervention programs.  more >

Discounted Price: $91.96
Originally: $114.95 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-88462-4 | Order #: HD-12-01

  

What Works Brief #10: Improving Staff Climate

By: Meagan O Malley, Katie Eklund

Effective school climates for students begin with effective school climates for staff. This What Works Brief recommends research-based strategies for staff. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #9: Family Engagement

By: Maria Paredes, Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

This What Works Brief, cowritten by WestEd's Maria Paredes and Meagan O'Malley, focuses on a key fundamental element of school improvement efforts: family engagement. School staff, parents, and community members alike will benefit from the strategies designed to help all students achieve academic success. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #8: Substance Use at School

By: Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

How can schools prevent student substance, or drug, use as well as help those students who are battling drug addiction? This What Works Brief offers schools evidence-based strategies for taking on these challenges. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #7: Harassment and Bullying

By: Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

How can school communities make sure their environments are free from all forms of aggression and victimization, including harassment, violence, and bullying? Find out in this What Works Brief.  more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #6: Physical and Emotional Violence Victimization

By: Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

What are 10 best practices for student bullying prevention and intervention? Find out in this What Works Brief.
 more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #4: School Connectedness

By: Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

Connected youth look forward to seeing their friends and teachers at school because they feel valued, respected, and supported by them. This What Works Brief provides strategies for improving students' school connectedness. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #5: Physical and Emotional Violence Perpetration

By: Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

How can schools reduce rates of physical and emotional violence? This What Works Brief provides school staff, parents, and community members with effective and evidence-based strategies. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #3: Perceptions of Safety

By: Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

Schools are perceived as safe when they are free from harassment, bullying, violence, and substance use; and are rich in positive, supportive relationships and interesting and rigorous opportunities for learning. This What Works Brief offers strategies for improving students' perception that school is a safe place. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #2: Opportunities for Meaningful Participation

By: Meagan O Malley, Angela Amarillas

Meaningful participation among students occurs when contributions to the school and classroom environment are facilitated, rather than directed, by adults; and when learning is connected to students' personal interests and applicable to their lives. This What Works Brief provides strategies for supporting students' meaningful participation in school. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

What Works Brief #1: Caring Relationships and High Expectations

By: Angela Amarillas

Healthy interpersonal relationships at school are one of the strongest predictors of student academic achievement and teacher career satisfaction. This What Works Brief presents research-based strategies teachers and other school staff can use to build and maintain rewarding relationships with students. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

Workbook for Improving School Climate & Closing the Achievement Gap, 2nd Edition

Using Your California Healthy Kids and California School Climate Surveys

Produced by: WestEd, California Department of Education

This workbook shows educators how to use findings from their school or district surveys to create supportive school climates — climates that enhance professional outcomes for staff, academic and social-emotional outcomes for students, and involvement outcomes for parents.  more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2012

Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative Fifth Annual Technical Report

Produced by: WestEd, California Department of Education, California Community Colleges

How can we prepare students for a successful career in the 21st Century California workforce? Find out in this annual report, highlighting the Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative's progress in 2010/11. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2011

Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative 2010-2011 Annual Report

Produced by: WestEd, California Department of Education, California Community Colleges

How can we help students prepare for successful careers in the 21st century? Find out in this free report, summarizing the most recent progress and impact of California's Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathways Initiative.  more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2011

Juvenile Crime and Justice

Edited by: William J. Chambliss

This collection of essays about juvenile justice policy addresses hot topics along three themes: prevention, prosecution, and corrections. more >

Price: $80.00 | Format: Hardcover | Copyright: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4129-7858-3 | Order #: LI-11-01

  

Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative 2009/10 Annual Report

Produced by: WestEd, California Department of Education, California Community Colleges

This report, prepared by the California Community Colleges, the California Department of Education, and WestEd, captures Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative progress in three key areas: monitoring statewide coordination of regional pathways; building human and organizational support; and sharing data/progress monitoring. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2011

Grappling with the Gaps

Toward a Research Agenda to Meet the Educational Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care

Produced by: The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd

Students living in foster care face additional stresses and disruptions that can create serious barriers to a quality education. This report, prepared by BethAnn Berliner of WestEd for The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, lays the groundwork for new research priorities to improve the education outcomes for students living in foster care.  more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2010

Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative 2008/09 Annual Report

Report to the Legislature, the Governor, and the Director of Finance

Produced by: WestEd, California Department of Education, California Community Colleges

The Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative 2008/09 Annual Report, prepared by the California Community Colleges, the California Department of Education, and WestEd, shows how California's community colleges, the largest higher education system in the country, are making progress in helping its students meet California’s workforce needs. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2010

Work-Based Learning in California

Opportunities and Models for Expansion

By: Svetlana Darche, Nara Nayar

This report, prepared by WestEd researchers for The James Irvine Foundation, takes a broad look at work-based learning in California: how it is practiced, what it looks like when done well, and how it could be expanded to engage more students. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2009

The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice, Fifth Edition

Edited by: Dennis Saleebey

"This book invites us to imagine a world in which all people are treated with respect and dignity. A world where even the most downtrodden and debilitated can harbor and pursue a dream of a better life. Where no limits are placed on the individual potential." — Professor Stanley Witkin, Department of Social Work, University of Vermont (from the foreword) more >

Price: $91.40 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-205-62441-6 | Order #: HD-09-02

  

Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools

Edited by: Rich Gilman, E. Scott Huebner, Michael J. Furlong

WestEd's Bonnie Benard coauthors a key chapter, entitled "Listening to Students: Moving from Resilience Research to Youth Development Practice and School Connectedness," in this new resource. more >

Price: $114.95 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8058-6362-8 | Order #: HD-09-01

  

Alternative Education Options: A Descriptive Study of California Continuation High Schools

By: Gregory Austin, Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Don Dixon, Joseph Johnson, Milbrey McLaughlin, Lynne Perez

This issue brief summarizes initial findings from a year-long descriptive study of continuation high schools in California. It is the first in a series of reports from the ongoing California Alternative Education Research Project conducted jointly by the John W. Gardner Center at Stanford University, the National Center for Urban School Transformation at San Diego State University, and WestEd's Health and Human Development Program. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2008

The Feasibility of Mandating School Breakfast in California's Severe Need Schools: Costs, Challenges, and Recommendations

By: William J. McCarthy, Barbara Dietsch, Brian McReynolds, Gabriela S. Jones

Prepared by WestEd and the California Department of Education, this report recommends a state requirement that severe need schools provide nutritious, cost-effective breakfasts for their students, improving their capacity to learn and grow into healthy, productive adults. more >

Format: PDF | Copyright: 2008

Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well-Being

WestEd's Bonnie Benard, leading expert on asset-based youth development and author of the bestselling Resiliency: What We Have Learned, contributes a key chapter, "The Hope of Prevention: Individual, Family, and Community Resilience," to this cutting-edge, comprehensive book on prevention. more >

Price: $55.00 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8318-5 | Order #: HD-07-01

  

Ensuring That No Child Is Left Behind: How Are Student Health Risks & Resilience Related to the Academic Progress of Schools?

By: Gregory Austin, June Lee-Bayha, Thomas L. Hanson

This report raises a critical question facing educators today: Have efforts to raise student test scores come at the expense of basic supports for student well-being — for example, nutrition and school safety — that motivate and facilitate learning? more >

Price: $9.50 | Format: Print | Copyright: 2004
Order #: HD-04-02

  

Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices, 2nd Edition

By: Elise Trumbull, Debra Ingram, Karen Seashore Louis, Floraline I. Stevens, Kenneth M. Zeichner, Robert J. Marzano, JoAnn B. Manning, Belinda Williams, Blanca Quiroz, Patricia M. Greenfield, Bonnie Benard, John A. Kovach

Edited by: Belinda Williams

When there are disconnects between school culture and the culture of students, students suffer — unnecessarily. This book presents ways to raise student achievement by understanding better the role of culture in setting expectations and making change, whether in classrooms, professional development, or political policy. more >

Price: $25.95 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2004
ISBN: 978-0-87120-838-5 | Order #: AG-03-01

  

Resiliency: What We Have Learned

By: Bonnie Benard

Only a few years ago, resiliency theory was relatively new to the fields of prevention and education. Today, it is at the heart of hundreds of successful school and community programs. This book synthesizes ten years of research, detailing how best to incorporate resiliency research to help young people thrive in school and in their communities.  more >

Price: $21.95 | Format: Trade Paper | Copyright: 2004
ISBN: 978-0-914409-18-2 | Order #: HD-04-01

  

Healthy Kids Resilience Module (HKRM)

HKRM assesses resilience-related assets in the school, home, community, peer group, and individual to promote positive development and academic success. more >

Format: Print | Copyright: 2001
Order #: HKRM-01-01

Healthy Kids Survey (HKS)

HKS is a comprehensive youth health-risk and resilience data collection and support system for school districts and communities. more >

Format: Print | Copyright: 2002

Fostering Resiliency in Kids

Protective Factors in the Family, School, and Community

By: Bonnie Benard

Format: PDF | Copyright: 1991
Order #: WC-91-01