Standard 5: Community of Care and Support for Students

Effective educational leaders cultivate an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community that promotes the academic success and well-being of each student.

Performance Indicators:

• A) Build and maintain a safe, caring, and healthy school environment that meets the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student.

• B) Create and sustain a school environment in which each student is known, accepted and valued, trusted and respected, cared for, and encouraged to be an active and responsible member of the school community.

• C) Provide coherent systems of academic and social supports, services, extracurricular activities, and accommodations to meet the range of learning needs of each student.

• D) Promote adult-student, student-peer, and school-community relationships that value and support academic learning and positive social and emotional development..

• E) Cultivate and reinforce student engagement in school and positive student conduct

• F) Infuse the school’s learning environment with the cultures and languages of the school’s community.

PSEL 5 Summary:

For me, this standard is mostly concerned with the non-academic side of education. Standard 5 emphasizes the various networks of social, emotional, and behavioral support that are available to students. Students aren't one-dimensional and they should be allowed to experience success in a number of different ways. Here in Standard 5, I present the following artifacts that demonstrate the role of leadership in wraparound services and extracurricular activities. The link to the Red Carpet Celebration for our Championship Basketball Team demonstrates the infusion of the school environment with the culture and language of the community through music (5F). The list of GASTC Regional Competitors exemplifies how positive adult-student relationships support academic learning and social-emotional development (5D). My experience as the Away-Game Administrator reinforces positive student conduct outside of our four walls (5E), and the Funds of Knowledge Assignment illustrates how positive student relationships can help leaders improve educational programs/initiatives to better meet the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student (5A).

PSEL 5 Artifacts