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Build a truly equitable school climate by uncovering opportunity gaps
As students’ learning environment varies between in-person, hybrid, and remote, Hanover’s advisors can provide recommendations based on research trends, help your organization gather and interpret stakeholder feedback, analyze your current performance, and support efforts to develop an action plan to work toward your goals.
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Assess every area of your school climate—from schools and buildings to stakeholder inclusiveness
Climate Survey
Measures school climate in a single year or longitudinally by assessing the school/building environment, academic environment, social environment, and stakeholder inclusiveness via an interactive dashboard to facilitate strategic decision making.
Equity Diagnostic
Gathers input from administrators, staff, and students to gauge understanding of equity issues and identify opportunity gaps in policies and practice.
SEL Planning, Selecting, and Evaluating Toolkit
Helps district and school leaders select and implement practices that will grow students’ social-emotional competencies regardless of their learning environment.
Restorative Justice Best Practices
Summarizes recommendations for implementing restorative justice practices in schools and suggests frameworks and tools for school and district leaders to adopt best practices.
Social-Emotional Learning Programming
Provides a summary of common approaches to developing and supporting students’ social-emotional competencies.
School Reentry Discussion Guide
Engages your stakeholders in a dialogue about school reentry. This resource can be used in your reentry working groups, with school improvement committees, or cabinet discussions.
Discipline Disproportionality Dashboard
Identifies which, if any, student subpopulations are experiencing a disproportionate number of disciplinary actions and whether staff in your district need additional training for supporting students’ needs.
Equity Scorecard
Provides a set of interactive visualizations comparing student performance and access outcomes across subgroups, helping leaders prioritize resources for underrepresented student groups and/or communicate progress to community.

Why Ceres Unified School District is Partnering with Hanover Research
“Over the last year or so, we’ve shifted our mindset from looking at teacher professional development as a one-way process to an actual learning process. Then March happened, and we went into crisis mode to help our teachers through our online platforms. We were able to provide some digital learning resources for teachers over the last few months, but as we started to prep for summer, we started to think about what we normally provide for our teachers, and how we can incentivize them to participate in professional learning and provide feedback.”
– Dr. Amy Peterman, Assistant Superintendent Educational Services

New Albany-Plain Local School District Assesses Students’ Social-Emotional Competencies
“We have really appreciated our partnership with Hanover, particularly in being able to do longitudinal work—we like being able to look at work from years ago to see school improvement shown through data-driven insights. The survey team has given us solid research that we can lean on to make informed decisions driven by what our community is showing and saying; we plan to use these survey results to see how we can best support our students in their social-emotional learning. We’ve done substance use, SEL, and staff climate surveys with Hanover, and have found that our partnership helps us be better at what we do.”
– Jon Hood, Director of Student Services, Safety & Security

Lake Forest Academy Creates Educational Outcome Index to Track Student Performance
“We have a mission to cultivate and embody our four pillars. There are some areas where we have identifiable performance metrics, like a student’s GPA, how many AP classes they are taking, etc.—but there was a call to find tangible metrics to demonstrate growth over time for areas like Character and Citizenship. Hanover’s survey instrument provided a subsection of questions and topics for each pillar, so being able to break down from the macro view to look at detailed insights let us examine if we were doing anything differently that led to our success, or if our students have a greater awareness of the things around them.”
– Chris Tennyson, Assistant Head of School, Dean of Students & Academic Affairs, and Mathematics Teacher