The Solution-Focused School Climate

This guidebook will describe how to construct a solution-focused school climate. It will take you through the hallways, classrooms, athletic fields and meeting rooms of your school and help you and your staff transform the climate into one where parents, staff, and students react positively and collaboratively. It will do so with a solution-focused approach, which is focused on outcomes, not problems. It will show you how to see through cloudy lenses that show only problematic behavior and, instead, see the times when students, staff and parents do better. It will also show you how your behavior influences others' behavior and gives you a chance to reconsider old actions that did not work. Inside this book are tips for integrating and implementing the solution-focused approach with parents, teachers, teams, and special educators, given in a step-by-step format that makes learning the model easy.