Culture and Climate Programs
Influencing the growth of safe and encouraging environments that positively strengthen relationships to cultivate resilience in others and ourselves.
Classroom Environment Supports
Statistics show that 1 in 4 students report being bullied and that a child is bullied every 7 minutes. Bullying behavior in schools can cause harm to students’ social and emotional well-being and be a significant barrier to learning.
Bullying is an intentional behavior that hurts, harms, or humiliates a student, either physically or emotionally, and can happen while at school, in the community, or online. Those bullying often have more social or physical “power,” while those targeted have difficulty stopping the behavior. The behavior is typically repeated, though it can be a one-time incident.
Source: PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center
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Classroom Strategies to establish SAFETY
• Setting limits
• Accommodating strengths & needs
• Predictability and structure
• Promoting positive peer interactions
Classroom Strategies to establish EMPOWERMENT
• Teaching Coping skills and Self-regulation skills,
• Provide guided opportunities for meaningful participation
• Maintaining high behavioral & academic expectations
• Build competency
Classroom Strategies to establish COLLABORATION
• School Staff, Community, and Family partnerships and training
Classroom Strategies to establish CHOICE
• Create self-care plan to address triggers
• Identify triggers
• Eliminate trigger or create coping strategies to deal with triggers
• Giving choices & alternatives
• Safe & acceptable expression of feelings
Classroom Strategies to establish TRUST
Relationship with the educator based on...
• Unconditional positive regard for all students
• Checking assumptions, observing & questioning