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RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL STAFF AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
MENTAL HEALTH: POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE
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Building Student Self-Esteem: Creating
a positive school climate |
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| Canadian Education
Association |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.46 B83) (borrow) |
Information about self-esteem in children. |
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Flip Tips: Discipline tips and helpful
hints |
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| By Ronald G. Morrish |
English
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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. |
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Planning together: Positive classroom
environments |
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| By Doug Hindle,
Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (370.19 D59 v.4) (borrow) |
This book describes a unique classroom community where trust
is fostered and children and teachers think and learn together. |
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With All Due Respect: Keys for Building
Effective School Discipline |
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| By Ronald G. Morrish |
English
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Available at:
Woodstream Publishing Inc. |
Helps teachers develop personal discipline skills and teaches
the essential strategies for building discipline as a team.
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Building a Quality School: A matter
of responsibility |
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| By Williams Glasser
and Kaye Mentley |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (8043) (borrow) |
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. |
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Building community with students
at risk : a proposed curriculum intervention model |
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| By Heather Alana
Syme |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.293 S95) (borrow) |
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. |
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Building Shared Responsibility for
Student Learning |
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| By A. Conzemius
and J. O'Neil |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.207 C65) (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Information about school improvement programs, school environment,
and group work in education. |
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Classroom Management/Positive School
Climate: ASCD Topic Pack |
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| Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.1024 C54) (borrow) |
Information on classroom management and school discipline. |
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Creating a Positive School Culture:
How principals and teachers can solve problems together. |
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| By Marie-Nathelie
Beaudoin and Maureen Taylor |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.106 B41) (borrow) |
Information on school personnel management, teacher-principal
relationships, teacher participation in administration, and
school environment. |
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Creating Conditions for Success |
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| By Brenda Lyle-Gray |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (0541) (borrow) |
Designed to introduce viewers to ways in which schools can
create conditions and opportunities of success for their students.
Program one examines fostering a positive school climate.
Program two considers how to engage students in successful
learning. |
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Creating emotionally safe schools:
a guide for educators and parents |
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| By Jane Bluestein |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.78 B58) (borrow)
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. |
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Critical Issue: Creating the School
Climate and Structures to Support Parent and Family Involvement
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| Appalachia Educational
Laboratory |
English
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Available at:
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory |
Information on creating a postive school climate and structures
to support parent and family involvement. |
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Culturally responsive teaching and
supervision: a handbook for staff development |
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| By C.A. Bowers
and David J. Flinders |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.1024 B68) (borrow) |
Information on school supervision, teacher-student relationships,
classroom environment, and educational anthropology. |
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Effective Schools for Children at
Risk |
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| Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (5696) (borrow) |
Designed to introduce viewers to the effective education of
children at risk. |
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Empowering Students to Transform
Schools |
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| By Gary Goldman
and Jay B Newman |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.8 G64) (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Includes strategies and skills designed to get students working
on improving their school and their education. |
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Esteem Builders: A K-8 self-esteem
curriculum for improving student achievement, behavior, and
school climate. |
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| By Michelle Borba
and Binah Taylor-McMillan |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.13.B67e 2003) (borrow) |
Information on self-respect, self-evaluation, creative activities
and seat work, and activity programs in education. |
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In Fairness to Children: Working
for social justice in the primary school |
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| By Morwenna Griffiths,
Carol Davies, and Margaret Cadman |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (370.115 G75) (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Information case studies on elementary school environment,
social justice, and sociological aspects. |
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Planning and Designing Schools |
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| By C. William
Brubaker, Raymond Bordwell and Gaylaird Christopher |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.72 B78) (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Information on school buildings design and construction and
school environment. |
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Teaching Intelligent Behaviors for
Thinking and Problem Solving |
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| By Arthur L Costa |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (0636) (borrow) |
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.
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The Heterogeneous Classroom |
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| By Marian Leibowitz |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (0576) (borrow) |
Designed to introduce users to the heterogeneous classroom.
Program one considers the rationale for heterogeneity in the
classroom, the elements necessary to create an educational
climate and culture supportive of heterogeneity, and teaching
strategies designed to encourage the development of a heterogeneous
classroom. Program two explores how to create heterogeneous
schools through the establishment of standards, the organization
and assessment of group work and the development of teaming
and support structures. |
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The Journalism Research Fellows Report:
What makes an effective school? |
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| By Diane Brundage |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.200973 J69) (borrow) |
Information on school management and organization, school
environment, and academic achievement. |
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The Quality School: Teaching quality
and self-evaluation |
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| By William Glasser |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (2906) (borrow) |
Uses a workshop approach and discussion with teachers, administrators,
and students to introduce users to principles and practices
of quality education and self-evaluation. |
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The unwritten curriculum: Things
learned but not taught in school |
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| By Arthur Blumberg
and Phyllis Blumberg |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (370.1523 B58) (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Information on psychological aspects of school environment,
interpersonal relations, and school management and organization. |
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Tribes: A new way of learning together
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| By Jeanne Gibbs
and Sherrin Bennett |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (370.1523 G52) (borrow)
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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William Glasser's The quality school:
Eliminating coercion |
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| By William Glasser |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (2910) (borrow) |
Designed to introduce users to the nature and characteristics
of a quality school. |
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You Don't Have to Dread Cafeteria
Duty: A guide to Surviving lunchroom, Recess, Bus, and "Other
Duties as Assigned" |
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| By Dori E. Novak
and Joanne C Strohmer |
English
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Available at:
Manitoba Education,
Citizenship and Youth (371.1414 N69) (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Ideas, plans, games, and reproducibles to make your elementary
school's cafeteria an inviting place where children can learn
and still have fun. |
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