Fostering Positive School Culture at GEMS

Georgia Elementary School has been planning, developing, and implementing strategies to support a vibrant student experience each and every day.

School culture is all about bringing a positive, conducive, and effective morale to bolster student learning, fulfillment, and wellbeing.

There are a variety of meaningful opportunities available to students. Here are just a few of the many ways GEMS is advancing a positive school culture:

• The individual successes of teachers and students are celebrated and recognized.
• Relationships and interactions are characterized by openness, trust, respect, and appreciation.

• Staff relationships are collegial, collaborative, and productive and all staff members are held to high professional standards.
• Students and staff members feel emotionally and physically safe and the school policies and facilities promote students safety.

• School leaders, teachers, and staff model positive, healthy behaviors for students.
• Mistakes not punished as failures, but seen as opportunities to learn and grow for both students and educators.

• Decisions are made collaboratively with input from staff, students, and parents.