SafeVoice
This anonymous reporting system can be used to report threats to the safety or well-being of students. You can make a report in both English and Spanish by using any of the following options:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
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Crisis Support Services of Nevada / Crisis Text Line
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Nevada COVID - 19 Health Response
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Nevada 211 Youth
Nevada 211 Youth is a free and easy way to locate and get connected to thousands of resources near you, including assistance with food, utilities, housing, and health care, plus much, much more.

• NV-SCSEL Website
• NV-SCSEL Reports
• Benchmark Performance-Level Categories
• Equating Summary Brief
• Nevada Standard Setting Brief

• National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments
• School Climate Improvement | National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
• School Climate | SchoolSafety
• Understanding School Climate: An Overview of School Climate Domains
• National School Climate Center
• Guiding Principles

Approaches to increasing the cultural and linguistic competence of the environment include self-assessing implicit biases and perceptions, adding children’s literature from diverse authors to classroom libraries, emphasizing the importance of global events within curriculum, and advocating for fair and equitable treatment of all individuals within the school community. Instituting culturally inclusive family engagement nights may be another method to bridge culture gaps and ameliorate misunderstandings.

• Learning for Justice
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development – Multicultural Education
• The National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments

To improve relationships, schools might benefit from hosting relationship-building activities throughout the school community, encouraging students and adults to model effective communication and judgment, or offering teacher or support staff check-ins with all students on an ongoing basis.

• Family and Youth Services Bureau
• Adolescent and School Health
• Community Matters
• National Mentoring Resource Center
• The National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments
• International Institute for Restorative Practices

Schools wishing to improve emotional safety may try employing cooperative learning techniques, instituting crossgrade student mentoring, implementing a multi-tiered system of behavioral support, or launching a peer mediation program.

• The Learning Classroom: Feelings Count - Emotions and Learning
• Active Minds
• Safe Start Center
• New York State Center for School Safety
• The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments

Schools may consider partnering with community youth serving and law enforcement agencies to strategize how to enhance physical safety on school grounds, and may consider implementing peer-to-peer conflict resolution strategies.

• Whole-School Change
• National PTA
• The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
• The National School Safety Center
• OSEP TA Center for PBIS

Schools can significantly reduce bullying incidents through comprehensive school-wide programs designed to change group norms and improve school climate, such as increased supervision, promotion of prosocial behavior, and training intensives for students, staff, and families.

• School Safety
• Stop Bullying
• CDC Violence Prevention
• Pacer
• PBIS Bullying Prevention

Schools can implement universal SEL instruction and focus on integrating SEL skill-building opportunities into the instructional day. Item-level responses will help school staff identify particular areas in which students struggle. From there, staff members may implement targeted interventions for particular skills or student subgroups. For example, students may need assistance with setting goals or listening to others’ perspectives in class discussions.

• CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
• Edutopia
• National School Climate Center
• Teaching the Whole Child: Instructional Practices That Support Social and Emotional Learning in Three Teacher Evaluation Frameworks
• Education Development Center: Social and Emotional Learning and Mental Health
• Social and Emotional Learning and Character Development Certificate Program