Culture, Climate, and Family Engagement

Create a Positive School Climate and Culture

Data-backed insights to create a positive learning environment where students thrive

A positive school climate is crucial for academic, emotional, and behavioral success. You can cultivate and maintain a positive school climate to ensure that your students and staff thrive.

Creating a positive climate is a unique process for each school. Hanover can help develop the approach that best suits your district. Our suite of research, tools, and expert guidance will give you the data you need to evaluate the current state of your school climate and pinpoint opportunities for improvement.

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Climate Survey

Assess and monitor the current state of your school climate

Hanover’s Climate Survey provides a comprehensive view of culture and climate in your district. You can view the results for your specific district, and benchmark against other districts from across the country in our School Climate Dashboard.

Perspectives of Culture Focus Groups

Engage the community in climate improvements

Our focus group facilitators will lead discussions with staff, students, and parents on school climate. Our analysis will reveal in-depth insights you can use to develop a strong sense of belonging among key community members.

Hanover's Social-Emotional Learning Survey

Evaluate SEL competencies

Hanover's SEL Survey will measure student’s SEL competencies and identify areas in which staff need additional support.

Peer Benchmarking

Select the best strategies to support a positive climate

Hanover will identify promising practices and programs in peer districts that can be adopted in your district as well as share input from national peers on well-being initiatives.

Give teachers the tools they need to cultivate a positive climate

Our online professional learning platform supports educators across twelve crucial education topic areas such as creating equitable and culturally responsive classroom strategies and environments, enhancing students’ social-emotional learning, and supporting evidence-based practices through a Multi-Tiered System of Supports.

discipline analysis

Evaluating your equity and behavior management

Hanover's Discipline Analysis will identify notable gaps, trends, and areas of focus for changes in your discipline policy. You will be able to compare rates and disproportionalities in disciplinary infractions taken over time, across schools, and between student groups.

Ways to Partner

Hanover offers multiple ways to work with us. From one-on-one expert guidance and custom research to professional learning and on-demand resources, our goal is to customize our capabilities and support to best meet your needs.

Our research partnership provides you with a dedicated research team and a customized research plan that will deliver actionable insights and analysis.

Our Advisory Services include our research services in addition to personalized support from one of our advisors, interactive workshops, and group consultations.

The Educator Learning Center (ELC) is our online professional learning platform that makes teacher learning sustainable, useful, and convenient.  

Our always-on resource that provides research, data, benchmarking, and implementation tools that you can access anytime and share across teams and departments.

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