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.

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.