Culture and Climate

All six Wissahickon School District schools intentionally create meaningful schoolwide learning experiences and activities that promote kindness, acceptance, and understanding, ensuring every student feels safe and valued. These efforts to foster empathy, celebrate diversity, and encourage positive discourse enhance the overall culture and climate of schools, leading to improved academic performance, a stronger sense of belonging, and more robust community bonds. Select projects are submitted to ADL’s No Place for Hate for recognition.

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All six schools incorporate Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) to create a safe, welcoming, and supportive learning environment and school community for all students. Coupled with social-emotional learning and restorative practices, PBIS supports a structured and positive environment where students can focus on learning and collaboration. Appropriate behavior, school rules, and expectations are taught, modeled, practiced, and acknowledged with positive reinforcement.

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Restorative Practices offer a continuum of prevention and intervention responses to support positive behaviors and reduce negative behaviors.

The most meaningful purpose of Restorative Practices is restoring and building relationships. Wissahickon School District employs Restorative Practice to focus on teaching behavior. Using Restorative Practice ensures that students will engage in a process that moves through acknowledgement and accountability. Research shows that when students take ownership of the conflicts that they created, they develop self-awareness of the impact their behavior had on others and take intentional steps to make things right.

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Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

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