1. 1. January 5, 2015 Staff Development Kenwood High School Fostering a Healthy, Safe, and Supportive Learning Environment
2. 2. Todays Target Identify ways to develop a healthy, safe, and supportive learning environment.
3. 3. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Algebra I English II English III Algebra II KHS State
4. 4. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Economically Disadvantaged KHS Non- Economically Disadvantaged KHS State
5. 5. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Algebra I/II English II/III 2013 Gap Target 2014 Gap
6. 6. Data Questions What does the data tell us? Why is the data like this?
7. 7. Room 26
8. 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. Lets discuss what
9. 9. Strategy 1- Confront and Eliminate Blaming of Students and Their Families Lets go back to our reasoning list for the data. Are there any reasons we should
10. 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. 11. Strategy 3- Establish an accurate understanding of poverty.
12. 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. 13. What do you believe about poverty? Lets take a survey. Go back to Kahoot (kahoot.it). For the game code, enter- 54879.
14. 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 childrens education because they do not value education. People in poverty tend to abuse drugs and alcohol more than people in other socioeconomic classes.
15. 15. Words Matter
16. 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. 17. Relationships are Important
18. 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.