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School Climate, Student Success and the Role of School-Based Health Care
For its combined short- and long-term effects on student health, well-being, and academic success, purposed measures must be taken to cultivate a positive school climate. School-based health centers make a logical partner in this commitment, for their focus on student wellness and their potential to lead systemic school-wide change.
The presence of a school-based health center has an overall stabilizing effect on a school and they can be a force to bridge administrators, staff, students and families in creating a positive school climate that fosters learning and curtails school dropout1. School-based health centers are at a physically and metaphorically critical point, within the school, to impact the quality and character of school life, or the school climate, for all students.
- Strolin-Goltzman, J 2010, “The Relationship Between School-Based Health Centers and the Learning Environment”, Journal of School Health, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 153-159.
- Alliance for Excellent Education. High School Dropouts in America. Alliance for Excellent Education. http://www.all4ed.org/files/GraduationRates_FactSheet.pdf. Published September, 2010. Accessed June 17, 2013.