Expectations

For healthy development and successful learning to occur, our students must feel safe. Real safety only comes through building an inclusive school community in which diversity is honored and all students are welcomed.

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.