Strategies for action:

• Commit to whole-school approaches

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  • Embed relational approaches
  • Honour and value te ao Māori
  • Value diversity
  • Agree on clear expectations
  • Build high expectations and strengths-based approaches
  • Celebrate broad views of success
• Foster relationships and partnerships

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  • Deepen relationships with ākonga and whānau
  • Connect with daily interactions
  • Explore and find solutions together
  • Empower learners
  • Support positive peer relationships
• Design learning for all

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  • Develop an engaging local curriculum
  • Design responsive physical environments
  • Use flexible teaching approaches
  • Create structure and routine
  • Reduce overload and sensory challenges
• Foster wellbeing and mental health

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  • Use trauma-informed practices
  • Prioritise wellbeing
  • Support mental health
  • Teach relaxation techniques
  • Teach coping strategies
• Embed social and emotional learning

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  • Teach social and emotional skills
  • Support communication and self advocacy
  • Teach learners to enact school values
  • Teach and practise interpersonal skills
  • Offer social and emotional supports
• Be proactive

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  • Identify factors that shape behaviour
  • Recognise and remove barriers to learning
  • Manage times of stress or change
  • Recognise emerging distress
  • Plan and practise adult responses
  • Create support plans
• Respond in challenging situations

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  • Recognise
  • Respond
  • Use de-escalation strategies
  • Respond safely to physical aggression
  • Restore