School environment embodies not only the cultural norms and expectations as lived and experienced, but also that reality's perception by the school's "significant others." Article suggests schools must become self-renewing learning organizations committed to studying and mastering five disciplines: shared envisioning, personal mastery,…

To maintain a culture supporting effectiveness, school leaders must carefully monitor the school's climate, collect measures of goal attainment (student performance and student satisfaction), and plan school improvement initiatives based on these assessments. The Comprehensive Assessment of School Environments (CASE) model fosters data-based…

Outlines the findings from the NASSP Task Force on Effective School Climate including clear definitions of school climate and a model illustrating the inputs and outputs of the school environment. Includes a table for the model. (MD)