Belong
Provide a safe, welcoming, equitable, accessible and inclusive environment that reflects the diversity of our community.
- Ensure that students and staff, including those who are Indigenous, Black, people of colour (racialized), persons with disabilities and members of 2SLGBTQIA communities can belong and access education.
- Support healthy well-being for students and staff.
- Provide for the needs of all learners in all aspects of schooling.
- Recognize the unique needs of every student and provide them with the opportunities and supports to succeed.
- Increase the knowledge of both students and staff around Indigenous history and perspectives and recognize Indigenous cultures and histories in all facets of Lakehead Public Schools.
- Promote an environment that is welcoming and inclusive of diverse students and their families.
Foster a school community within which every student and staff feels accepted and welcome to be actively engaged.
- Provide students a variety of opportunities to form relationships with their peers, teachers and other staff members both inside and outside of the classroom.
- Create, with students, guiding values for schools.
- Support a safe community where every student is comfortable collaborating and cooperating.
- Encourage and create safe learning environments where Indigenous students can self-identify as Indigenous and develop a positive self-identity through learning their own histories, cultures, traditional values, contemporary lifestyles and traditional knowledges.
- Recognize that each student and staff member play an important role in the community and appreciate their individual skills and talents.
- Continually reflect and construct opportunities for students to play an active role in their educational experience.
- Empower students and staff to recognize and engage students that rarely participate in the school community.
Promote a culture for students to express themselves and their identities.
