Social and Emotional Safety

Our focus on emotional safety for all students and staff means that we positively focus on relationships -- believing that all our students can learn and deserve our respect and opportunities to maintain their dignity.

We have a formal approach through Relationship-Centered Learning (RCL - formerly restorative practices --- which includes proactive actions to build relationships with students and prevent harm in classroom, balanced with restorative justice actions to repair harm).

We also want the all teachers to be all in all the time with holding kids accountable without shame and harm when possible. Every human is deserving of dignity, kindness, compassion, and love.

When the system fails, which is may, restorative justice options like mediation and circles includes the reactive steps we take after relationships have been damaged. However, being intentional about how RCP are integrated into your classroom routines, culture, and experiences builds positive relationships and prevents many actions from happening in the first place.

Make your classroom a place that kids love to be, where it is okay to mess up (fail forward to learn), and where relationships come before the content and the correction.