School Climate Assesment

A school seems to be a small, safe, confined area. This is where a student meets new people and learns about life (life includes history, math, science... anything needed to make it outside of High School). Not many people actually think about how it is run or what all is involved in running a building filled with young minds. There is a “climate” in a school that involves, the community, students, and the school staff. It includes a physical environment, where a strong leadership guides the instructional programs, time is spent on task, there are high expectations that are fostered by all, expectations are clearly defined, there is a frequent monitoring and feedback, communication, trust, rewards, and a sense of community. If all of these could be graded, what would you grade the school you come from? Students from government classes in my school, Whitehall High, did such a thing. The grades were averaged by using the grading scale. Each did a class grade and an individual grade.

My individual grade was tallied by this grading scale: A= 4.0 A- =3.7 B+ =3.3 B =3.0 B- =2.7 C+ =2.3 C =2.0 C- =1.7 D+ =1.3 D =1.0 D- =.7 and an E/F= .0. My totally GPA was 3.6. I graded category number one, physical environment with an A- be

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Student number 3's lowest grade was a C and the was a four way tie with B’s but the biggest setback for a category comes from category number 1.

I asked three other students about their GPA’s and we compared them. They said the only way to know about school events, is if you are part of the faculty. Their reasoning behind them being so low is that they believe that not everyone shares respect for one another in the classroom and that if they did, it would be less of a distraction. The newsletter could involve what students are trying to do and also events that the community has done to bring us all together. There are events in the community that the students do not know about and there are events through the school that the community does not know much about. The principal checks on both staff and students. I agreed with one student that the distractions are limited in a classroom, but by grading it with a B+, most students believed there are more distractions. I talked to a different student who wore a shirt that resembled the one previously talked about, but with a thin strap over the bear shoulder. The only way to judge a schools climate is by taking the average feeling of what students think about their school.

Whitehall is a very strong school. With this assistance it gives a better pathway to open communication.

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