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73Positive & Supportive ClimateThe District continued to focus on building a sense of belonging, safety, and acceptance while cultivating the skills necessary for all students to succeed both in school and in life. The District%u2019s Skills for Learning & Life (SLL)Resource Center provided lessons designed to help students meet the outcomes of the Florida Department of Education%u2019s Resiliency Standards. The SLL themes outlined in the FY25 SLL Guide Elementary and High Schools were aligned with each grade level%u2019s Resiliency Standards. Additionally, resources such as Morning Meeting (for elementary students) and Community Circle (for secondary students) were provided to schools, allowing students to practice life skills while strengthening relationships with peers and staff.The SLL team received an overwhelmingly positive response to the district-created resources for FY25. In elementary schools, explicit instruction videos averaged approximately 1,425 weekly classroom views, directly impacting around 34,000 students. In secondary schools, the videos received 325 weekly classroom views, directly impacting approximately 14,000 students.The SLL team also continued their SLL School-Wide Book of the Quarter initiative, allowing every student to read and engage with a common text each quarter that promotes an SLL Essential Idea. This initiative fostered and strengthened the school community through a shared reading experience. Each quarter, schools incorporated the selected books into their morning announcements, and some created school-wide displays of student work based on the SLL Essential Idea. The FY25 SLL Essential Ideas for focused on forgiveness, curiosity, uniqueness, and expressing emotions. In addition, the SLL team expanded the Emotion Regulation & Kiwi Calm Corner cohort to 25 schools. Kiwi is an emotion regulation curriculum designed for kindergarten and 1st grade students, teaching them skills and strategies to effectively identify and manage strong emotions. The curriculum is broken up into eight core emotions, with lessons facilitated by teachers during Morning Meeting twice per week. As a result of implementing Kiwi in FY25, schools in Cohorts 1 and 2 saw a reduction in discipline data across kindergarten and 1st grade. Specifically, 95% of schools in these cohorts showed a decrease in physical aggression discipline referrals in kindergarten, and 91% showed a decrease in such referrals in 1st grade.