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May 2005 Trust Increases Student’s ScoresTrust is a key ingredient to academic achievement, Tony Bryk told a conference sponsored by the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute in November. Without a basic atmosphere of trust among teachers, principals, parents, and students, children are unlikely to improve their basic skills. During the 1990s Bryk, then a noted Chicago area school reformer, conducted a multiyear survey of teachers and principals to measure levels of trust at Chicago area elementary schools. He found that educators working at top-quartile schools reported much higher degrees of trust on their campuses than did their colleagues at lower-performing schools. Over time, Bryk noted, schools reporting low levels of trust had only a one-in-seven chance of improving student scores in reading and math. Schools with more trusting atmospheres had a one-in-two chance of improvement. Trust, he warned the audience, “is not something learned through a one-day sensitivity training but is built patiently through day-to-day interaction.” Bryk joined the Business School faculty in 2004. He has a joint appointment in the School of Education. |
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