Safe Schools
Awards Criteria
What are the awards criteria?
Recipients of the Premier's Safe Schools Awards will:
- Demonstrate initiative, creativity, and leadership in at least 3 of the following areas related to school climate, as identified in the ministry's Promoting a Positive School Climate Resource (PDF, 80 KB):
- Student Voice
- Parent Engagement
- Community Partnerships
- Learning Environment
- Social – Emotional Environment
- Physical Environment.
- Identify the specific challenges faced by the team and how they were addressed.
- Provide evidence that activities have made a significant difference in the school/school community.
Who is eligible?
All safe schools teams across Ontario.
Who makes up a safe schools team?
Every school in Ontario has a safe schools team in place that is responsible for school safety.
Each team includes:
- one parent
- at least one student (where appropriate)
- one teacher
- one non-teaching staff member
- one community partner, e.g. public health unit or the local police
- the principal.
The chair of the team must be a staff member.
An existing school committee such as the healthy schools committee can add to their responsibilities and assume the role of a safe schools team.
Anyone in the school community can nominate a safe schools team for a Premier's Award, but a safe schools team can also nominate itself.
Nominations for the 2011-2012 Premiers Safe Schools Awards closed on February 17, 2012. Thank you to everyone who nominated a safe schools team.
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