Riley (Old) School Climate Reflections by Alicia Duell https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5 Answer 2-3 of the following questions about your own elementary/middle school: 1.How supportive and caring were most of the teachers? 2. Did you feel a sense of safety from violence and bullying? 3. How connected did most students feel to the school? 4. Was your school culturally diverse? If so, did everyone feel welcomed and celebrated? en-us 2018-03-07 20:24:25 UTC 2018-03-08 14:28:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Riley School Climate Reflections https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239651173 1. At my elementary school, a majority of my teachers were supportive and caring. I still speak to two of my teachers!
2. I always felt safe at my school. However, that was a different generation and time.
3. My school was culturally diverse. From my perspective, everyone felt welcomed and celebrated. Often times, my teachers were the ones to promote diversity by planning activities. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239651173 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239651847 1. When I was in elementary school I felt most teachers were supportive. There are a few memories of tough or rigid teachers.]]> 2018-03-08 14:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239651847 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652252 I remember my teachers as being a mixed bag. Some were supportive and caring and others were hard nosed - those were the nuns! We were not really culturally diverse - all white, all catholic. Violence was minimal but there were school bullies]]> 2018-03-08 14:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652252 At my elementary school most students felt connected to the school because it was very small and we went through all grades with the same small group of kids. I think the teachers were supportive and caring, but I definitely felt the responsibility was more on the student than on the teachers to succeed bethany_hoot https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652280 2018-03-08 14:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652280 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652293 My elementary school teachers were very caring, and I remember always being excited to go to school. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652293 Riley school climate reflections https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652334 1. Most of my teachers were very supportive and caring.
2. I always felt a sense of safety at school from both violence and bullying.
3. My school was very culturally diverse. We had international nights and the teachers helped students understand and recognize different cultures using projects and presentations. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652334 Riley School Climate Reflections https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652381 I remember most of my teachers being supportive and always offering to help. I have build good personal relationships with many of my teachers. I felt safety from violence and bullying while attending school. I knew of at least a couple adults that I can always talk to at school when needing adult support. The schools I attended very very culturally diverse. All students were very curious about each other's similarities and differences and instruction often reflected the school's cultural diversity.

]]> 2018-03-08 14:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652381 School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652541 1. I felt like teachers were helpful and caring to the class as a whole. I didn't feel my teachers knew us as individuals the way that teachers at our school know students  today. 
2. I felt safe from violence and bullying. I don't remember seeing bullying at my school. 
3. I felt a lot of pride in my school and I think other kids did too. We wore school spirit wear all the time and sung a school anthem at assemblies. There was a lot of involvement and pride in our school activities like school plays and the school jump rope team. 

]]> 2018-03-08 14:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652541 Elementary school melisa_zawadzki https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652634 I remember my teachers being very supportive.
I also felt very safe.]]> 2018-03-08 14:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239652634 Riley School Climate megan_mccann2 https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653010 1) At  my elementary school, the majority of my teachers were supportive and caring. In many blogs and social media questionnaires, I praise many of them!
2) Outside of indirect experiences that I consider to be general parts of growing up, such as gossip and occasional drama between friends, I felt totally safe from actual bullying.
3) We did many activities and there were many opportunities to be collaborative, but the overall climate was competitive. Being in the separated gifted program- the competitive spirit was even more set in place.
4) Due to where I grew up, my school was not at all culturally diverse.]]> 2018-03-08 14:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653010 School climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653180 I had some very supportive and caring teachers but I also had a few scary teachers
2.  I always felt safe at school.  There were probably people who were bullied but I wasn't aware of it.
3.  I am not sure about connection.  I don't remember feeling very connected to the school. 
4. No, my school was not very culturally diverse. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653180 Reflections https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653281 School Climate was very rigid with a sense of structure but no student collaboration.]]> 2018-03-08 14:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653281 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653500 2018-03-08 14:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653500 1. My teachers were very caring in school. paris_abel https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653546 2. I felt safe at school and was not worried about bullying or school violence. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653546 School Climate @ Riley https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653576 My elementary school teachers were mostly rigid, desks in rows, by the textbook kind of teachers. Typical of the era. Since it was in rural Wisconsin it was not diverse--probably 99% white. There was only one African American girl in our school. She had many friends and people always wanted to be with her. Students with disabilities were not included in our school--certainly not a lot of "least restrictive environment" going on at the time. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653576 School Climiate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653723 I went to a small school through 8th grade, and there was a huge sense of community. 

]]> 2018-03-08 14:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653723 Riley Climate Reflections https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653914 Teachers didn't connect with students the way some of them do now. 
Safety wasn't even a blip, it was assumed.
Riley was much less diverse 40 years ago than it is today]]> 2018-03-08 14:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653914 Elementary School https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653969 Most of my teachers were caring and supportive. I remember the teachers that went above and beyond.]]> 2018-03-08 14:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653969 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653988 1.   I remember my teachers being supportive and caring.
2.  School felt safe and free of violence and bullying.
3.  I think that most students felt connected to the school as it was a close knit neighborhood.
4. Culturally diverse..I honestly don't remember thinking about it as a kid. I think everyone felt welcomed and celebrated.]]> 2018-03-08 14:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239653988 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654157 Question #1- The teachers at my elementary school were very supportive. I felt that they took extra time to work with students after school. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654157 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654257 I went to a diverse school that felt very neighborhood-like. Teachers were supportive and caring. 
I didn't really think about bullying.]]> 2018-03-08 14:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654257 Safety at My School https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654281 I don't recall any safety concerns at my school. We didn't even do lock down drills then. We only practiced fire and tornado drills. WOW, times have changed!]]> 2018-03-08 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654281 Caring and supportive teachers https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654613 There are things that I learned in middle school that I still refer to today, and now that my own child is in middle school I realize how important those years of learning were.]]> 2018-03-08 14:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654613 Safety https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654762 I felt very safe at school. There were only about 90 kids in my grade and we all knew each other from kindergarten through 8th grade.]]> 2018-03-08 14:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239654762 Safe https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239655157 I always felt safe at school. However, to this day I still recall witnessing bullying. I feel that teachers are more aware of this issue now. ]]> 2018-03-08 14:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239655157 Riley School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239655806 Question #2-- I felt safe from violence and bullying. I do not feel that there was as much focus on SEL standards, but I do recall one assembly specifically about bullying in elementary school.]]> 2018-03-08 14:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239655806 Most of my teachers were caring and supportive. The years I remember most were the teachers that I connected with. I felt safe at school most of the time. I feel we had some segregation between the bilingual classes and the general education classes. https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239655876 2018-03-08 14:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239655876 School Safety https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239656256 1.  Most of my teachers were caring and kind throughout the day in all grade levels.  Teachers often took the time to talk with each student and meet their needs.
2. I always felt safe at school. There was a level of respect for the adults and authority, so therefore students kept their behavior in check.]]> 2018-03-08 14:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239656256 School Climate https://padlet.com/alicia_duell/ml711sz3skr5/wish/239659951 Most of my teachers were nuns that provided structure and high  expectations for our futures. School safety was not discussed. We knew to show respect for others if we wanted to be respected. There were no students with disabilities in my school, but it was culturally diverse. I continued many of these friendships through adulthood.

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