Creating a Safe & Friendly School: Lunchroom, Hallways, Playground, And More...

Gather practical ideas for creating a positive climate throughout the school. Seventeen articles by experienced teachers, counselors, and principals provide snapshots of various schools' efforts to help children learn self-control and responsible behavior in those areas outside the classroom that are often problematic. Some of the real-life, everyday concerns they cover:

• Making the bus ride safer and calmer
• Teaching friendly, welcoming hallway behavior
• Helping children behave responsibly in bathrooms
• Promoting a more peaceful climate during lunch and recess
• Using the Responsive Classroom approach in special area classrooms
• Holding all-school meetings
• Creating schoolwide rules

A resource list offers books, articles, videos, and websites with more ideas for nurturing a positive climate that helps all children learn.