Strategies to Promote a Caring, Respectful School Environment
Create more opportunities for student-student and student-teacher
interaction through:
• Small learning communities, as lower student-teacher ratios promote interaction
• Block scheduling, with longer classes that foster greater interaction
• Looping, in which a teacher is with the same class for more than one year
• Class meetings, where students share their thoughts daily or weekly
• Staff members who are assigned as mentors or advisors to individual students
or groups
• Cooperative learning projects, which studies show eliminate cliques and widen
friendship networks, even across racial divides