We believe the most important step for creating a safe school is to empower students to develop and uphold their own agreements and ground rules. Parents and school staff have a joint responsibility to communicate, encourage, and follow through with the agreements and ground rules. It is the students responsibility to respect the rights of others to learn in a safe and caring environment. Cooperation among all groups is necessary to achieve the following goals:
1. Take care of yourself.
- Begin warm-up/preparation as class begins
- Bring all necessary materials and completed assignments to class
- Ask questions appropriately
- Follow teacher directions, classroom procedures and school policies
2. Take care of each other.
- Listen to and support each other
- Keep conversations private
- Focus on issues, not people
- Seek to understand
- Follow teacher directions, classroom procedures and school policies
3. Take care of this place.
- Keep desks/tables clean
- Return class materials and pick up debris around your desk/table before you leave
- Follow teacher directions, classroom procedures and school policies
4. Persist with learning: Never give up on making sense in any class.