The strategy of paying attention to the physical design of a school as well as implementing technology to help secure it is directly linked to security. Both of these strategies may enhance the security of the place which is the focus of attention, the school. Additionally, students who learn to deal with conflicts with other students in acceptable ways, for example, through conflict management and peer mediation, likely will feel safer. Everywhere , for example, will also feel safer. All of these strategies focus upon how people are critical actors in establishing and maintaining safety in schools.
People also are critical actors in the orderliness or lack of orderliness in a school.
The Pyramid offers, again, the SRO and conflict management and peer mediation to help address the orderliness of a school. Each of the strategies which comprises the Center's Safe Schools Pyramid can contribute to a school's effort to establish and maintain security, safety and order. Students and teachers do not have to worry about their security and safety. Instead they can concentrate their efforts on education. Teachers can teach and students can learn.