This collaborative document is created by members of the community, outlining how they aspire to treat each other. Together, the community describes how they want to feel at school, the behaviours that foster those feelings, and guidelines for preventing and managing unwanted feelings and conflict.

Learning to identify and label emotions is a critical step toward cultivating emotional intelligence. Using the Mood Meter, students and educators become more mindful of how their emotions change throughout the day and affect their actions. Students learn to expand their emotional vocabulary, replacing basic feeling words like ‘ok’ or ‘fine’ with more sophisticated terms such as ‘alienated’ or ‘tranquil’. By teaching subtle distinctions between similar feelings, the Mood Meter empowers students and educators to recognise the full scope of their emotional lives and address all feelings more effectively.

This strategy helps students and educators handle strong emotions to make better decisions for themselves and their community. The Meta Moment is a brief step back from the situation to pause and think before acting and ask how would my ‘best self' react in this situation? What strategy can I use so that my actions reflect my best self? With practice, ineffective responses can be replaced with productive and empowering responses to challenging situations. Students learn to make better choices, build healthier relationships, and experience greater wellbeing.

How everyone in a school treats each other has a powerful effect on classroom performance and school climate. The Blueprint is about managing conflict effectively, encouraging participants to consider a disagreement from the other person’s perspective, as well as their own. This helps develop empathy by considering each other’s feelings and working collaboratively to identify healthy solutions to conflicts. The Blueprint helps repair relationships and build stronger ones, creating a more positive environment.