School Culture and Diversity
One of the district's key strategic initiatives this year is Safety, Security and School Culture. These three important elements are directly related to learning. Our goal at Pine-Richland is to continually enhance and improve each element to establish an environment of comfort, confidence, trust and safety for all.
Planned next steps include communicating with our families about topics that our principals and others are sharing with students related to school culture and diversity and asking parents to engage in those conversations with their children at home; holding student/parent/staff focus groups to talk about recommended actions and using building-level teams to implement changes; and identifying ways to engage more parents.
Action to Date
Messages to Families
Each building principal has crafted messages to families that were linked in their school's Friday Flash. These messages outline what students and staff are doing in the building related to school culture and diversity. Please refer to the Friday Flash archives linked under Resources on each school's website to view the messages from the school principal on September 15, November 3 and February 16 (for K-3) and November 10 and February 16 (for 4-12).
Focus Groups
On November 16, focus groups were held with middle school and high school students. Findings from these meetings were shared at the December 11 school board meeting.
