Fostering a healthy, safe, and supportive learning environment

1. January 5, 2015 Staff
Development
Kenwood High School
Fostering a Healthy, Safe, and
Supportive Learning Environment

2. Today’s Target
Identify ways
to develop a
healthy, safe,
and
supportive
learning
environment.

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Algebra
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English
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English
III
Algebra
II
KHS
State

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Economically
Disadvantaged
KHS
Non-
Economically
Disadvantaged
KHS
State

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Algebra I/II English II/III
2013 Gap
Target
2014 Gap

6. Data Questions
What does
the data tell
us?
Why is the
data like this?

7. Room 26

8. Barriers Survey
 Complete the
“Barriers to Healthy,
Safe, and Supportive
Learning
Environments”
survey.
 When you have
completed, take nine
stickers and plot
your response on the
poster of the survey.
 Let’s discuss what

9. Strategy 1- Confront and Eliminate
Blaming of Students and Their
Families
Let’s go back
to our
reasoning list
for the data.
Are there any
reasons we
should

10. Strategy 2- Establish a physically
and emotionally safe environment.
 Group A- Read the story about Jeff.
 Group B- Read the story about Lynda.
 Speed Dating- Group A will be the inner circle.
Group B will be the outer circle. In the allotted
time, discuss the two stories.

11. Strategy 3- Establish an accurate
understanding of poverty.

12. Strategy 3- Establish an accurate
understanding of poverty.
 What do you know about poverty? Go to the
following website- kahoot.it, and type in the
“game pin”

13. What do you believe about poverty?
 Let’s take a survey.
 Go back to Kahoot (kahoot.it).
 For the game code, enter- 54879.

14. Common Myths
 People in poverty are unmotivated and
have weak work ethics.
 Education, as a way out of poverty, is
easily accessible to everyone.
 People living in poverty are uninvolved
in their children’s education because
they do not value education.
 People in poverty tend to abuse drugs
and alcohol more than people in other
socioeconomic classes.

15. Words Matter

16. Strategy 4-Develop structures that
support caring relationships.
What do at-risk students want
more than anything?
A caring
relationship with
an adult.

17. Relationships are Important

18. Brainstorm
 At your tables, brainstorm next
steps for the lowest barriers we
identified on the survey, using the
strategies discussed today. Be
prepared to share out your ideas.