School climate reform, an evidence-based strategy, supports K-12 students, school personnel, parents/guardians and community members learning and working together to promote pro-social education. Done well, these efforts will result in even safer, more supportive, engaging, helpfully challenging and harmonious schools. The U.S. Department of Education, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute for Educational Sciences, President Obama's Bully Prevention Partnership, the US Departments of Justice and Education's School Discipline Consensus project, a growing number of State Departments of Education and foreign educational ministries support and/or endorse school climate renewal as a strategy to increase student learning and achievement, enhance school connectedness, reduce high school dropout rates, prevent bullying and other forms of violence, and enhance teacher retention rates. Schools can create more equitable communities through the following promising strategies: (1) Encourage reflective practice and build cultural awareness in students and adults; (2) Increase understanding of diverse cultures (3) Keep diverse schools physically and emotionally safe; (4) Make high expectations culturally responsive; (5) Design multiple pathways to meaningful participation; and (6) Demonstrate caring by knowing students' unique emotional needs.