Handout 12

Focus 4: Learning Environment

Recommendations

• Involve all stakeholders in articulating the characteristics of a nurturing learning environment.
  
  
• Give schools the authority to create their own school environment improvement plans, developed in collaboration with students, teachers, parents, and the community.
  
  
• Commit to making changes that will improve discipline and safety. Develop a rigorous code of behavior in keeping with the desired environment, and spell out the sanctions that will be applied to those who violate that code of behavior.
  
  
• Teach and model respect for diversity throughout the system, and develop teaching strategies that can reach diverse groups of students.
  
  
• Gather and analyze data on school safety, dropouts and suspensions, attendance, and other school environment issues, and monitor progress on a regular basis.

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