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School Climate during COVID-19 in a Sample of Pennsylvania Schools

Mid-Atlantic | September 21, 2024

Time: 8:30-10:00 am EDT

Location: Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland

Description: 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 to understand how school climate changed during disruptions brought about by COVID-19.

REL Mid-Atlantic will present this report at the 2024 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Conference as part of a broader panel of studies that are using school surveys of students and staff to measure changes in school climate before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.