PO539: The Impact of School Climate on High Achieving Black Students

  • PMD: 7,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 1: Promoting Diversity and Multicultural Competence in School Psychology

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand the effect home-school dissonance has on Black students;
  2. examine way in which teacher classroom discrimination impacts Black student perceptions of themselves; and
  3. develop a better understanding of how to best support Black students.

Description

Understanding how school climate and culture plays a part in the outcomes of Black students is essential to help close the opportunity gaps that have persisted for far too long.

Presenter(s)

Darwin M. Jacobs, Ohio State University
Kyanna P. Johnson, Ohio State University
Scott L. Graves, Jr, Ohio State University

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