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. Instead they can concentrate their efforts on education.
Teachers can teach and students can learn.
Schools can be environments which are free of fear and conducive to learning. With such environments in place, educational excellence can be achieved.