Creating an Inclusive School Climate: A School Psychology Model for Supporting Marginalized Students

Creating an Inclusive School Climate introduces school psychology stakeholders to a wealth of foundations, individualized experiences, and school improvement efforts intended to bolster the outcomes of our most vulnerable learners. As student populations grow increasingly diverse, sociocultural variables have never been more important to supporting school climate. Using an original cultural-ecological framework, this book builds on the experiences of historically underrepresented and oppressed youth to foster a socially just, strengths-based perspective for implementing school improvement efforts within multi-tiered systems. Faculty, graduate students, researchers, and professionals in the field will come away with a conceptually and methodologically sound understanding of the interrelationships between personal characteristics, culture, ecological contexts, and school climate.

Tamika P. La Salle-Finley is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate, and Classroom Management in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University, USA. Currently, she is Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of School & Educational Psychology. Previously, she was Associate Professor of School Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, USA, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Science at D'Annunzio University, Italy.