In partnership with Search Institute, Region 4 is proud to provide this engaging and impactful session focused on building stronger staff communities to create thriving school cultures. The Search Institute partners with organizations to cultivate the strengths, relationships, and opportunities necessary for young people to learn, grow, contribute, and thrive. Grounded in this belief, this session recognizes that school culture starts with adults.
Amid burnout, silos, and communication breakdowns, leaders have the opportunity, and responsibility, to model the safe, caring community they want for students. This session equips administrators with strategies to use everyday interactions to strengthen relationships, reinforce shared values, and create a ripple effect that reaches every student.
The commitment to building positive relationships among adults and youth is strong and is considered a highly important part of youth-serving organizations’ missions. Yet, many schools, organizations and programs are lacking the supporting structures needed to make that commitment come alive. The relational climate and culture of an organization, how rooted it is in relationships, grows when barriers to thriving are removed and supporting structures are strengthened. In this learning experience, participants will reflect on adult-to-adult relationships and the program context as a relational ecosystem where young people can thrive.
Objectives:
- Analyze your work with young people through the lens of the Developmental Relationships Framework and the context of your program, school or organization.
- Interpret your program/organization context through the lens of the Rooted-in-Relationships Model: relational climate and culture, barriers, and supporting structures.
- Evaluate the strengths and growth areas of your team as you work together to build strong relationships and build relational mindsets/actions
- Co-create and implement:
- New mindsets and actions to influence the adoption of equitable developmental relationships into your organization’s mission and goals.
- Action plan to integrate inclusive developmental relationships in your daily practices and procedures.