b'CreatingBelonging in LRSDFor the 2022-2023 school year, LRSD put an enhanced focus on ensuring everyone feels welcomed, accepted, valued, healthy, and safe while at school and in the workplace. We got to see how being together in our communities impacts the wellness of our students and staff. One essential questionled much of the work among LRSD staffhow do we prioritize belonging? Putting this question at the center of our work alsoinclusive and welcoming of all. Collaborating with highlighted the inextricable link between mentalclinicians, divisional support teachers, leadership health, well-being, and ones sense of belonging inteams, community members, and partner agencies, our school communities. schools focused on those practices that help students see themselves, their communities, their Fostering wellness, resilience, and flourishing in ourvalues, and their hopes reflected at school.community through prioritizing belonging allowed our school teams to reflect in meaningful ways onThe 2022-2023 school year was again full the statements that have served as the foundationof exciting, challenging, and courageous of LRSDs growth: conversations about what it takes to create safety 1.I know what well-being is.and belonging for all in the service of wellness. School teams engaged student voices, fostered 2.I know what impacts (positively andstudent leadership, and found innovative and negatively) my well-being and the exciting ways to envision and build the spaces well-being of those in my community.and practices needed for all students to belong. 3.I have strategies to improve my well-beingThe school teams at Minnetonka School, cole and the well-being of others.George McDowell, and J. H. Bruns Collegiate are School teams engaged their students, staff, andaspirational examples of how fostering a sensecommunities in creating environments that areof belonging can improve the mental health and well-being of students and staff.26'