Our community has let us know they value a safe and inclusive environment where they can see themselves and be themselves regardless of ethnicity, nationality, language, abilities, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and religious and spiritual beliefs.  

In scanning our staff and students we recognize that we needed a common lens to communicate clearly amongst all staff, with family, and community. This affects both student understanding, behaviour and school decisions and input. With this lens, we hope to be able to explain why we do what we do, what excites us and what is not working. We also recognized the need to ensure that we were hearing and creating space for all voices. This includes voices who may not always be heard at first and those voices that are often marginalized. 

At our Professional Development Day in May, 2024 staff spent time working with the Power of Privilege Wheel, we analyzed the data we collected about what is important to our school community to write the following lens. 

Steves is a safe learning community where we strive to: 

• create a sense of belonging 

• see ourselves 

• work together 

• build connections to the land and our community 

• respond to change 

Since this time, we have used this lens to make decisions and double check our work around a variety of activities including track, graduation celebrations, our school calendar, and Fun Day.