School Culture and Climate Flashcards

CPSEL Standard 5 focuses on which leadership domain?

Answer: School Climate, Equity, and Cultural Responsiveness

CPSEL Standard 5 addresses the school leader's responsibility for building an equitable, culturally responsive school culture and positive climate.

Restorative practices in schools are designed primarily to:

Answer: Repair relationships and community harm after conflict rather than focusing solely on punishment

Restorative practices shift the focus from punitive responses to repairing harm, rebuilding relationships, and restoring community after conflict.

A principal wants to assess school climate. Which data source provides the MOST direct measure of student perceptions of safety and belonging?

Answer: California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) results

The California Healthy Kids Survey directly measures students' perceptions of school safety, connectedness, substance use, and other climate indicators.

Implicit bias in school discipline decisions refers to:

Answer: Unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that influence disciplinary actions in disparate ways

Implicit bias involves unconscious associations that can cause administrators and teachers to apply discipline less equitably without conscious discriminatory intent.

A culturally responsive school leader demonstrates cultural competency by:

Answer: Recognizing and affirming students' cultural identities as assets in the learning environment

Cultural responsiveness treats student cultural backgrounds as strengths to build upon, not deficits to overcome or differences to ignore.

California's Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) framework identifies five core competency areas. Which set is correct?

Answer: Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making

CASEL's five core SEL competencies — self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making — underpin California's SEL framework.