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Standard Seven (Culture): Community of Care and Support

The effective educational leader develops and sustains positive partnerships with and among students, staff and stakeholders to create a safe and caring school environment.

ODEW Essential Question for the Standard: Do I effectively advocate on behalf of all students and create a positive environment for meeting the needs of the whole child?

OLAC Focusing Questions for Principals’ Self-Reflection: By Standard-

1. Would I benefit from learning more about effective advocacy skills and concepts?

   • National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP): The Principal Advocate: Five Ways School Leaders Can Support  Students, Teachers, and Communities (2019)
   • Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Integrated Student Supports
   • Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: School Wellness
   • OLAC Video: Increasing Expectations for Students with Disabilities
   • OLAC Video: Teams as the Framework for Improving Educational Equity
   • OLAC Module: Educational Equity: Understanding Why It's So Important
   • OLAC Module: Learning Supports
   • OLAC Learning Series: Culturally Responsive Practice
   • National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments: Cultural and Linguistic Competence
   • NextGen Learning: School Culture: Restorative Practices

2. Would I like access to resources that can help staff, students, and stakeholders learn more about effective advocacy skills and concepts? Resources include:

   • OLAC Module: Family and Community Engagement
   • OLAC Module: Trauma Informed Practice
   • OLAC Module: Learning Supports
   • Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Integrated Student Supports
   • Education Next: How Schools and Teachers Can Get Better at Cultural Competence (Farmer, 2020)
   • National Association of School Psychologists: Resources and Podcasts: Diversity
   • National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments: School Climate Improvement
   • National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments: School Climate Improvement Resource Package
   • NextGen Learning: Designing for Equity: Discussion Protocols
   • NextGen Learning: School Culture: Restorative Practice

OLAC Focusing Questions for Principals’ Self-Reflection: By Indicator-

7.3: The effective educational leader develops and sustains a school environment in which students, staff, and stakeholders are valued, trusted, respected and cared for.

1. Would I like access to resources that help all students, staff and stakeholders in a school to build a safe, trusting, respectful, caring learning environment? Resources include:

   • National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
   • OLAC Module: Learning Supports
   • OLAC Module: Family and Community Engagement
   • OLAC Module: Trauma Informed Practice
   • OLAC Module: Educational Equity: Understanding Why It's So Important
   • OLAC Video: Dr. Melinda Wolford: A Place They Go to Feel Safe
   • OLAC Video: Increasing Student Ownership of Learning Through Formative and Summative Assessments
   • Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Integrated Student Supports
   • The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
   • NASSP: Building Success Module 4: Building an Inclusive School Culture
   • IRIS Center Module: Cultural and Linguistic Differences: What Teachers Should Know

2. Would I like to know more about formalizing organizations around care, trust, and respect? Resources include:

   • American Institutes for Research (AIR) Education Policy Center: Creating Healthy Schools: 10 Key Ideas for the Social and Emotional Learning and School Climate Community
   • National School Climate Center
   • Ohio Leadership for Inclusion, Implementation, and Instructional Improvement (OLi4)
   • OLAC Module: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
   • Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Integrated Student Supports
   • OLAC Webinar: Integrating Ohio’s Work into a Comprehensive Improvement Process Using the Updated OIP
   • OLAC Webinar: Social Emotional Learning
   • Change: making it happen in your school and district (Fullan, 2013)
   • National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments: School Climate Improvement Resource Package
   • National Equity Project