In these meetings, students and teacher set the standards for how they want their classroom community to function. Actively listen to whoever is speaking. Keep the room tidy. Students are workers. What is important is that the ideas come from the students in the group and mean something to everyone s success.
Assemblies are another time when the whole school groups together.
Our seventh and eighth graders were excellent models of those behaviors at the first assembly. On the playground, we are continuing to be watchful and help students be kind, safe, appropriate and respectful. Learning to share playground space, especially basketball hoops and tennis court areas, continues to be a challenge, but we are making progress. Our school improvement plan this year includes the development of a prevention-intervention program for school safety. Our School Council and a prevention-intervention committee made up of staff and parents are gathering resources and research to help us design even more programs and curricula to meet the needs of a respectful community.