For more than a century, there has been a growing interest in school climate. Recently, the
US Department of Education, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for …

The student–teacher relationship is critically important: influencing children's academic,
social, behavioural and emotional development. While much research has examined the …

Despite the significance of teacher–student relationships during the early years of school,
questions remain about its long-term importance and whether the timing and variability of …

This pilot study examined the psychometric properties of the Benevolent Childhood
Experiences (BCEs) scale, a new instrument designed to assess positive early life …

Schools are an important context for children's social and emotional development. In
classrooms and other school settings, children and adolescents need to have skills such as …

This paper frames the subject of this special issue—how the field currently measures social
and emotional development in early childhood. We first describe the relationship of social …

This study evaluates a model for considering domain‐general and domain‐specific
associations between teacher–child interactions and children's development, using a …

Theoretical and empirical work on relationships between teachers and children relies on
developmental systems theory as the foundational conceptual model, drawing heavily from …

Classrooms are complex social systems, and student-teacher relationships and interactions
are also complex, multicomponent systems. We posit that the nature and quality of …

The authors propose a model of the prosocial classroom that highlights the importance of
teachers' social and emotional competence (SEC) and well-being in the development and …