Our Environment

What will our building look, sound, and feel like?

• Ensuring that all students have the supplies and resources they need to
  be successful.
• People are treated as individuals with unique attributes, skills, and
  needs.
• Our building is a place where all ideas and identities are welcomed and
  supported.
• Encouraging the development of study skills and work habits for success
  in and out of school.
• An accepting environment for all
• Provide elective classes
• Provide job and career resources
• More supervised areas
• Posters
• Teach persistence
• Incorporate more goal setting in academic courses
• Teachers modeling growth mindsets and the power of yet
• Positive phone calls home
• Group work teaching emotional regulation and pro-social skills
• School based mental health programs
• Providing better access to elective courses taught at the high school
• Peer helpers for new students
• Students engaged in learning
• Continuity with staff and programs
• Positive interactions between students and staff
• Providing resources based on current student need
• Teachers building on student strengths
• Using inquiry based or project based learning that include student interests and ideas
• Students have the opportunity to create their own graduation plan (clp/plp)
• Model empathy and positive communications
• Welcoming and well kept building
• Staff accommodate student needs /having high expectations
• Offering a variety of relevant classes that fit student interests
• Helping students with study skills and strategies
• Provide more teacher personal development when needed