Whitney Kozakowski

This study analyzed Pennsylvania School Climate Survey data from students and staff in the 2021/22 school year to assess the validity and reliability of the elementary school student version of the survey; approaches to scoring the survey in individual schools at all grade levels; and perceptions of school climate across student, staff, and school groups. The survey encourages data informed efforts in participating Pennsylvania schools to foster supportive learning environments that promote s...

The Pennsylvania Department of Education's (PDE's) Office for Safe Schools partnered with REL Mid-Atlantic to conduct a study analyzing the validity and reliability from PDE's school climate survey for elementary school students. This survey, which is available on a voluntary basis to any school in the state, provides a way for schools to track their school climate and identify aspects of school climate that need additional support. The analysis examined the three domains of the PDE school cl...

The Pennsylvania Department of Education's (PDE's) Office for Safe Schools partnered with REL Mid-Atlantic to conduct a study using data from PDE's school climate survey. This survey, which is available on a voluntary basis to any school in the state, provides a way to track school climate and identify schools that need additional support to improve school climate. The REL study analyzed changes in scores from a pre-pandemic year (2018/19) to the 2020/21 and 2021/22 school years, both of whic...

After shifting to remote learning in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pittsburgh Public Schools sought assistance in analyzing how student achievement changed during the pandemic and how the change varied based on students' demographic characteristics. The district was also eager to understand how students' access and use online learning applications and how this varies across students, teachers, and schools. The REL helped analyze remote learning data to help school leaders an...