The School Climate and Literacy for Georgia (SCAL4GA) partnership focuses on developing a greater understanding of the relationship between school climate and literacy, improving state and district staff understanding of evidence-based practices related to improving school climate, and supporting district and school staff to implement evidence-based practices for improving school climate and monitoring the use of school climate data to improve student outcomes. This partnership is comprised of REL Southeast staff and state level leaders from the Georgia Department of Education.
Partner organization: Georgia Department of Education
Current projects
REL Southeast partners with a select group of GaDOE staff as well as other representatives from the state to develop a series of trainings that can be used by Georgia school climate specialists to train school districts to better understand school climate data and then use that data to make informed decisions. REL Southeast will assist in developing all training materials and devising a plan for dissemination in the state.
Completed projects
REL Southeast is conducting a coaching project with the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) to conduct analyses to better understand the relationship between school climate and literacy. This project will build GaDOE staff’s capacity to conduct research on the relationships between school climate and literacy. The project also will build GaDOE staff’s knowledge of the relationships between school climate and student literacy outcomes and build GaDOE staff’s capacity to communicate findings about the relationship between school climate and literacy to others within their department and to educators in school districts.