All school staff have a collective responsibility for all students and value the importance of building relationships.  Schools create a culture of acceptance and caring by providing various school wide activities, creating opportunities for multi-age groupings and generating core values and building common language.

A positive school culture can be created in many ways.  Some ideas are:

• taking a team approach to working with students
• school assemblies
• staff PD
• common language throughout the building 
• staff need to make a commitment to cultural norms (buy in and a collective responsibility)
• embedded in: staff meetings, collaborative days, classrooms, 
• school wide events  (inclusive)
• play music before and after school over the PA
• comfortable and supportive physical spaces/ opportunities for physical movement (e.g. Don’t Walk in the Hallway, spin bikes, alternate seating, tower gardens)
• positive messaging throughout school (bulletin boards, morning announcements, recognition of positive acts)
• newsletter messaging around SEL
• Parent PD
• multi-age groupings (e.g. reading buddies)
• mentorship between staff members/ mentorship of students
• inclusive support groups (e.g. LGBTQ)
• healthy nutrition options/  education