How would your children and youth describe your school?

“ A school can create a coherent environment,”  a climate more potent than any single influence- teachers, class, family, neighborhood- “ so potent that for at least six hours a day it can override almost everything else in the lives of children”  ( Edmonds, 1986 )

Young people describe “turnaround” schools and classrooms as being like:

   “a family” ;  “a community” ;“ a sanctuary” ;“ a safe haven”….