The Center's Safe Schools Pyramid provides some guidance to schools about the kinds of actions which can be taken to address the different conditions. 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 safety. Both of these strategies may enhance the safety 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. 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. People, of course, are what caring in a school is all about. The Pyramid's recognition of the community as the context from which it rises as well as the people orientation of strategies such as SROs, conflict management and peer mediation, and S.A.V.E. provide opportunities for the caring condition of a school to be enhanced. Each of the strategies which comprises the Center's Safe Schools Pyramid can contribute to a school's effort to establish and maintain safety, orderliness, and caring. Students and teachers do not have to worry about their safety.