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Zero tolerance provides zero learning
In today's culture where bullying and violence are on the rise, we know that children who are afraid or anxious are in no state of mind to learn. If you are serious about creating a safe school climate conducive to learning, this book will show you how. Written by counseling experts, Safe and Peaceful Schools provides a variety of research-based techniques to help students, school counselors, psychologists, administrators, and other educators develop conflict resolution skills that reduce the need for disciplinary action. Each chapter addresses a mode of practice for constructing peaceful interactions, including: Peer mediation; Narrative counseling; Circle conversations; Undercover anti-bullying teams; “Facing up to violence” groups; Restorative conferences
Included are vignettes, dialogues, sample activities, agendas, and charts. Conflict is inevitable. Teaching students how to deal with it constructively will help them learn the tools they need to succeed at school and in life.
Putting It All Together
Putting It All Together
What's in This Chapter?
- Tying the Threads Together
- Choosing the Right Approach
- What Kinds of Training Are Required for These Tasks?
- Who Makes These Decisions? Who Needs to Be Consulted?
- Concluding Remarks
Tying the Threads Together
It remains to tie together again the threads that we have separated out into different strands through the preceding chapters. To do this, we reiterate here some of the principles on which this book is based. We also make some final comments on an overall conflict management strategy in a school. And we address the question of how to choose from among the conflict resolution strategies outlined in the book.
We have consistently argued for a way of resolving conflict and addressing violence that views conflict as a product of ...
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