Decisions in Motion - IS 3 Toolkit 5 - Improving Student-Student Relationships - Getting Ready to Plan

Sep 11, 2026

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Toolkit 5 “Decisions in Motion: Improving Student-Student Relationships” supports schools in getting started to strengthen school climate by improving student-to-student relationships. It provides an overall sample plan and a step-by-step 6-step planning process, including forming an action team, determining an area of focus, interpreting data, selecting strategies, detailing actions, ensuring adults take required steps, and measuring whether differences were made. Guidance also clarifies how to select and use an effective facilitator.

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Pages72

Reading Time25 min

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Getting Ready to Plan

Using This Toolkit

Forming our Action Team

Facilitation Guide

Developing Your Plan to Improve Student-Student Relationships

Implementation Readiness Guide

Sample Plan

Step 1—Determining our Area of Focus

Step 2—Describing the Story Behind our Data

Step 3—Selecting our Strategy

Step 4—Detailing our Actions

Step 5—Ensuring Adults are Doing What they Need to Do

Step 6—Knowing if We’ve Made a Difference

Next Steps

About the Authors

Decisions in Motion IS 3 Toolkit 5 Improving Student-Student Relationships A publication of RM Consulting and the Iowa Department of Education Getting Ready Plan Decisions in Motion: Improving Student-Student Relationships (Toolkit 5) 2014 © Copyright by RM Consulting. Funding for this publication is provided by the Iowa Department of Education and U.S. Department of Education (PR/Award \#Q184Y100013) . For information about this toolkit, please contact Ron Mirr 3411 Ireland Drive Iowa City, IA 52246 Tel: 319.430.4315 Email: [rmirr@mac.com](rmirr@mac.com) Getting Ready to Plan Contents Getting Ready to Plan ......................................................................................4 Using This Toolkit ........................................................................................... 5 Forming our Action Team .................................................................................. 6 Facilitation Guide ......................................................................................... 11 Developing Your Plan to Improve Student-Student Relationships........................ 14 Implementation Readiness Guide ..................................................................... 17 Sample Plan.................................................................................................. 18 Step 1—Determining our Area of Focus ............................................................ 27 Step 2—Describing the Story Behind our Data ................................................... 35 Step 3—Selecting our Strategy........................................................................ 43 Step 4—Detailing our Actions ......................................................................... 49 Step 5— Ensuring Adults are Doing What they Need to Do................................... 55 Step 6—Knowing if We’ve Made a Difference ..................................................... 61 Next Steps ..................................................................................................... 66 About the Authors ........................................................................................ 69 Decisions in Motion: Improving Student-Student Relationships (Toolkit 5) 3 Getting Ready to Decisions in Motion: Improving Student- Relationships (Toolkit 5) Getting Ready to Plan Laying the Ground Work Getting Ready to Plan Using This Toolkit This toolkit is designed for schools that want to get moving right away to improve school climate. You can use this toolkit to develop a plan to improve student-student relationships. The toolkit provides you with a picture of the whole (a sample plan) AND the parts (the step-by-step process) so you can successfully create a plan to improve the climate in your school. How do we begin? sneectedionforwdiliersliptyusofconousridteearmmanOyur issueadmisninistcrluatirnganthdeour Tpeovpiunrpog osuersocfhils’sTocloitt,s ondcroeuarte awor pklamnumgi-n facilitator should work together to select team members. with our school’s administration. Once our adminis trative leaders are committed to the process, they can Facilitation Guide select a facilitator to lead our work. Throughout our The section of the toolkit called “Facilitation Guide”process, the facilitator and a building administrator will help our facilitator be efficient and effective. This work together to form our school’s action team. section explains the importance of the facilitator’s role, the responsibilities that come with the role, and pro Selecting a Facilitator vides guidance on various aspects of effective meeting facilitation. A critical component in the success of any team is an effective facilitator. Though committed members of a team may have the best intentions of getting the work Creating an Action Plan done without appointing a single “leader,” the designa- You can use this toolkit to create an act

FAQs

What is the purpose of this toolkit?

It helps schools develop a plan to improve school climate by strengthening student-student relationships, using both a sample plan and a step-by-step process.

What planning steps does the toolkit include?

It follows a 6-step sequence: determining focus, describing the story behind data, selecting a strategy, detailing actions, ensuring adults do required work, and checking whether a difference was made.

Why is selecting an effective facilitator important?

The facilitator increases the likelihood the team stays focused and on-track by preparing meeting agendas, organizing materials, leading meetings, delegating tasks, and monitoring adherence to norms.

Sep 11, 2026

Uploaded by Violet