What you will find in my new book, The Violence Continuum: Creating a Safe School Climate:
Practical suggestions for ways to engage others in a safe school climate effort and how to develop and implement a plan
How school climate and school culture are related yet different.
A step-by-step guide to the violence continuum mapping activity that can be used with both adults and students.
Examples of essential questions to help safe school climate committees, school staff, students, and parents define their common concerns and goals.
The New Golden Rule of Empathy, which takes an expanded view of the Golden Rule.
The historical mandate for public schools to teach more than academics.
Supporting statistics, research, graphics, and stories incorporated throughout the book
Discussion of the legal difference between bullying and harassment
How experience with and the type of violence varies with factors such as poverty, athletic privilege, disabilities, and gender.
Exploration of often overlooked female covert relational aggression.
Cyber-bullying including tips for safely using social media.
Strategies for embedding respect for diversity into all realms of school life, including curriculum and instruction.
Specific suggestions for the prevention, early intervention, late intervention, and post-incident response phases of a comprehensive safe school climate plan.
Bulleted lists of warning signs of bullying, characteristics of a toxic school climate, the cultural norms of a school, examples of teacher bullying, and desirable pro-social skills.
A glossary of the forms of violence along the continuum experienced by children in schools.
Examples of school climate assessment tools available.
A walk-through of the action plan process.
A fresh perspective on violence in schools and a belief that we can do something about it.
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