Belonging, School Climate & Community

Projects in this category empower students and staff to transform school
communities into places everyone feels they belong
.

  • Helping to create a school culture where all students and staff feel a sense
    of connection to one another and personal responsibility for the
    community.
  • Addressing challenges related to apathy, lack of school spirit
  • Demonstrating the benefits of including “outsiders” and addressing
    barriers to authentic inclusion.
  • Create positive attitudes based on a new understanding of ourselves and
    others.
  • Learn about normal human behavior’s that can act as a barrier to
    deciding to help others.
  • Develop skills to intervene in positive ways.
  • Learn skills to make taking another’s perspective second nature
  • Build the ability to reflect upon their own experience and relate this to
    another’s situation.
  • Develop the capacity for empathy and positive actions.