Category: Creating community

13 Manières de Créer un Model de Respect pour votre Enfant
By Categories: Behavior Management, Counselors, Creating community, Educators, Leadership, Parenting, Parenting, Parents, Tolerance and Respect Leave a comment

Par Jane Bluestein Ph.D. • Ecoutez. Regardez-le dans les yeux quand votre enfant vous parle.• Frappez avant d’entrer dans la chambre de votre enfant, surtout si la porte est fermée. • Employez le type de langage et le ton de voix qui serait acceptable si votre enfant vous parlait. • Appréciez le besoin qu’a votre enfant de s’amuser…

The Gift of Service: Certificate
By Categories: Counselors, Creating community, Educators, General Interest, Gratitude and inspiration, Parents, Relationships Leave a comment

Download page for Service Certificates Free download: one page with two copies of a certificate you can duplicate to offer the gift of your service to someone in your life. This page corresponds to Chapter 4, “The Pleasures of Service,” in Magic, Miracles and Synchronicity by Jane Bluestein, Judy Lawrence, and S.J. Sanchez. See below for a…

Angels in Disguise: Certificate
By Categories: Counselors, Creating community, Educators, General Interest, Gratitude and inspiration, Increasing Positivity, Parents, Relationships, Self-care and Inspiration, Stationery item, Teacher Appreciation Leave a comment

Download page for Angel Certificates Free download: one page with two copies of a certificate you can duplicate to recognize and acknowledge the Angels in Disguise who enrich your life. These “angels” could be family and friends, or they could be helpers, service people, or total strangers who add to your life with the work…

Book: Managing 21st Century Classrooms
By Categories: Avoiding power struggles, Beginning Teachers, Behavior Management, Behavior Management, Books, Bookstore, Classroom management, Counselors, Creating community, Culture and Community, Discipline, Educators, Emotionally safe schools, Increasing Positivity, Intervening negative behavior, Motivating cooperation, Recognition and reinforcement, Rules and Boundaries, School climate, Teaching, Win-win authority Leave a comment

How to avoid ineffective classroom management practices! by Dr. Jane Bluestein You know all those behavior management strategies we learned to use in our teacher ed classes (and many subsequent workshops)? Well guess what! Some of them are actually making things worse! It’s long past time for our approach to classroom management to catch up to…

Creating Kindness
By Categories: Counselors, Creating community, General Interest, Increasing Positivity, Self-care and Inspiration, Taking care of yourself, Tolerance and Respect Tags: , , , , , , , , , , 4 Comments

Finding a positive outlet for outrage and pain Update, 2022: I wrote this piece in response to a specific incident that happened several years ago. We’ve certainly had more than enough “outrage and pain” since this post appeared. I have left the original reference in for historical purposes and context. I believe that the content…

“Bully” is a Four-Letter Word
By Categories: Counselors, Creating community, Culture and Community, Educators, Emotionally safe schools, Parents, School climate, Social and Emotional Growth, Tolerance and Respect Leave a comment

Understanding the Concept to Manage the Territory by Dr. Jo Ann Freiberg Columbine was the crucible. Whether because of its scale or because it happened in an upper middle class suburban community, what occurred in Littleton, Colorado forever changed how schools and communities in the United States respond to “bullying.” Prior to this event, the…

Bullying Podcast with Stan Davis
By Categories: Counselors, Creating community, Cultural Changes, Culture and Community, Educators, Emotionally safe schools, Health and Safety, Podcast, School climate, Schools in Society, Social and Emotional Growth, Tolerance and Respect Leave a comment

Learn what kids say works best, and what makes things worse Episode Summary: Dr. Jane Bluestein talks with author and retired therapist Stan Davis about the true value of the advice kids receive and the interventions they experience when they experience mistreatment at the hands of their peers. 

Improving Student Behavior through Positive School Climate
By Categories: Behavior Management, Classroom management, Counselors, Creating community, Culture and Community, Discipline, Educators, Emotionally safe schools, Increasing Positivity, Leadership, Parents, Problem solving, School climate, Social and Emotional Growth Leave a comment

It’s not about the rules! From the January 2013 newsletter: There is a strange myth around kids’ behavior that if we just have enough rules (and severe enough punishments), the misbehaviors will disappear. What I’ve observed, however, is an even stranger reality in which the opposite tends to be true, especially in schools: the longer the…

What’s so Hard About Win-Win?
By Categories: Avoiding power struggles, Behavior Management, Behavior Management, Building responsibility, Counselors, Creating community, Discipline, Educators, Emotionally safe schools, Intervening negative behavior, Modeling positive behavior, Motivating cooperation, Recognition and reinforcement, Rules and Boundaries, School climate, Win-win authority Leave a comment

Getting past old win-lose traditions This article was written for Educational Leadership magazine. A similar version appeared in the September 2011 edition of that magazine. Talk about safe, respectful schools and at some point, the term win-win is bound to come up. First coined in the 1920s by human relations and management pioneer Mary Parker…

Survey: Is Your School an Emotionally Safe Place?
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Assessing Climate in Individual Classrooms and Schools This survey lists a number of practices that characterize a school with an emotionally safe climate. It has been included on this site to help you evaluate your school’s goals, policies, and intentions, as well as the degree to which each exists in actual practice. The list is…