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RESOURCES FOR PARENTS:
MENTAL HEALTH: POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE

	Flip Tips: Discipline tips and helpful hints
	By Ronald G. Morrish	English
	Available at: Woodstream Publishing Inc.
	A compilation of discipline tips, bits of expert advice, and helpful reminders designed to help parents and teachers develop effective discipline techniques.

	Mental Health and Schools: Positive Caring Schools - School Climate
	School File	English
	This page lists several resources related to creating and maintaining a positive climate or culture in the school.

	Planning together: Positive classroom environments
	By Doug Hindle, Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	This book describes a unique classroom community where trust is fostered and children and teachers think and learn together.

	With All Due Respect: Keys for Building Effective School Discipline
	By Ronald G. Morrish	English
	Available at: Woodstream Publishing Inc.
	Helps teachers develop personal discipline skills and teaches the essential strategies for building discipline as a team.

	An integrated approach to character education
	By Timothy Rusnak	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Winnipeg Public Library (borrow) Local or online bookstores
	This book proposes an effective way of addressing students' values and character growth.

	Building a Quality School: A matter of responsibility
	By Williams Glasser and Kaye Mentley	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	Introduce viewers to the nature and characteristics of a quality school. Touches upon the need to change teaching practices, the principles and concepts of control theory, ways to meet basic needs in the classroom, and how the school can become a part of a student's quality world.

	Building community with students at risk: a proposed curriculum intervention model
	By Heather Alana Syme	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	Describes a curriculum intervention for at risk students through classroom environment and interactions, critical pedagogy, and social reconstruction to establish relationships and care with students at risk and foster in them a sense of belonging and acceptance and being valued.

	Creating emotionally safe schools: a guide for educators and parents
	By Jane Bluestein	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Winnipeg Public Library (borrow) Local or online bookstores
	A plan to return schools to havens of nurturing and learning, examining a variety of factors that contribute to the emotional climate of an educational institution.

	Critical Issue: Creating the School Climate and Structures to Support Parent and Family Involvement
	Appalachia Educational Laboratory	English
	Available at: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
	Information on creating a postive school climate and structures to support parent and family involvement.

	Culturally responsive teaching and supervision: a handbook for staff development
	By C.A. Bowers and David J. Flinders	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	Information on school supervision, teacher-student relationships, classroom environment, and educational anthropology.

	Designing Places for Learning
	By Anne Meek	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	Information on school buildings and environment and educational change.

	Effective Schools for Children at Risk
	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	Designed to introduce viewers to the effective education of children at risk.

	Empowering Students to Transform Schools
	By Gary Goldman and Jay B Newman	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Local or online bookstores
	Includes strategies and skills designed to get students working on improving their school and their education.

	In Fairness to Children: Working for social justice in the primary school
	By Morwenna Griffiths, Carol Davies, and Margaret Cadman	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Local or online bookstores
	Information case studies on elementary school environment, social justice, and sociological aspects.

	Planning and Designing Schools
	By C. William Brubaker, Raymond Bordwell and Gaylaird Christopher	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Local or online bookstores
	Information on school buildings design and construction and school environment.

	Teaching Intelligent Behaviors for Thinking and Problem Solving
	By Arthur L Costa	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	Designed to introduce viewers to the link between intelligent behaviors and the nature of thinking and problem solving. Program one discusses twelve intelligent behaviors, showing how they are used, often in combination, to solve problems.

	The Journalism Research Fellows Report: What makes an effective school?
	By Diane Brundage	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
	Information on school management and organization, school environment, and academic achievement.

	Tribes: A new way of learning together
	By Jeanne Gibbs and Sherrin Bennett	English
	Available at: Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Local or online bookstores
	Information on the psychology of learning, social learning, group work in education, classroom environment, academic achievement, and school improvement.

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