The Learning Environmental Checklist (LEC) covers a range of factors that may be influencing students’ behaviour and learning including whole school policies, physical environment, classroom organisation and individual teaching and learning approaches and strategies. The LEC is intended to offer assistance in identifying those aspects of the learning environment that are working well and those that may need attention. It can be used in several ways. For example: (a) A teacher could use it privately to focus and reflect on particular aspects of the learning environment (b) or complete the checklist with the help of a colleague’s observations and comments, as part of a peer support system (c) Or it could be used across different staff groups in order to arrive at whole-school priorities for development. Depending upon the use, it may not be necessary to consider every statement/list. Once completed the checklist provides the basis for developing a Learning Environment Plan. Read how one school used this resource as part of an intervention with a group of 2nd year students in the Focus Area section of the website.