What LCES Does to Create a Positive School Climate

• Developing relationships with students
• Title 1 paras work with students in the classroom, at recess, lunch and in other common areas
• Supervision before/after school, recess that focuses on problem-solving
• Student Service – Crossing Guard, Flight Club, Landscape Club, Bobcat Ambassadors, Historians, Bike Club, Kindness Club, Recess Medics
• Programs
• Counselor classroom lessons
• Character Crossroad (Purposeful People Curriculum – connects to Middle School initiative with Olweus) – monthly lessons on character traits, resilience, problem solving
• Start with Hello, Every Step (Bullying Prevention), Upstander, and other supplemental lessons
• MindUp
• Ned Show – assemblies to support “upstanders”
• Start with Hello Week, Unity Day, The Great Kindness Challenge
• “Student Success” class as part of the K-3 specials rotation (with PE, art, music)
• Use of “Skills for Growing” curriculum
• Explicit instruction for recess games
• LC Bobcats Problem Solving Wheel

• Relaxation Station (proactive behavior support) and Resolution Room
• Monthly character traits and recognition of “students of the month”
• Small-group counseling
• Weekly school-wide behavior meeting with administrators, counselors, school psychologist, Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA), Student Success Teacher, and Resolution Room para
• Weekly school-wide behavior meeting with administrators and counselors 
• Whole Child Team (teachers, parents, staff, administrators)
• Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) – monthly individual grade-level meetings on whole child concerns (grade-level teachers, Special Education teacher, psychologist, counselor, Title 1 Coordinator)
• Climate surveys – Panorama (students/staff)
• Education (parents/community)
• Outreach/workshops (Love and Logic for Parents)
• Online resources
• Grade-level parent nights, conferences, and open houses
• Training (teachers and staff)

Love and Logic

Trauma-Informed/ACES

“Help for Billy”: Book Study