Every teacher needs tools for recognizing and addressing bullying in the classroom, as well as other areas of the school. Boys' bullying is usually overt, while girls' is more covert, and thus may be overlooked. The author discusses how to make schools safe. Also included is a section that helps victims change their behavior.

Students will discover the values that contribute to responsible behavior and the ideals that shape a civil society as they grapple with real-life situations and dilemmas they encounter every day. More than 40 scenarios dealing with everything from honesty, pride, and personal responsibility to kindness, courtesy, and prejudice stimulate class discussion and self-reflection. A wide variety of games, puzzles, quizzes, and activities for each scenario further engage students in ethical consideration.

This classic conflict resolution guide offers more than 20 proven conflict-resolution techniques. Examples and more than 200 classroom-tested activities and games provide constructive responses to your students' problem behaviors. There are even tips for resolving your own professional conflicts.

Exploring Character gives you real-life scenarios that will get students talking about integrity, kindness, trustworthiness, courage, goodwill, openness, industriousness, cooperation, and friendship.
Exploring Character gives you discussion points and activities that:

• Develop values, choices and behavior
• Spark open-ended discussion and individual reflection
• Involve your students in thinking seriously about the elements that make up the character of a responsible person

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Respect. We all want to get it, but are we willing to give it as well? Turn your classroom into one where respect matters and stop the "dissing," the one-upsmanship, and the jokes at another's expense. How can you help your students learn and model healthy interpersonal relationships? Respect Matters helps teachers integrate respect into the core curriculum through discussion points and activities. You'll spark group discussion and individual reflection while helping your students develop the values and civil behavior they need to succeed in life. Challenge your students to think about the impact of respecting cultural differences, laws and authority, others' opinions, oneself, and more.

Give students the power to take control of situations and resolve conflicts peacefully. With Students Resolving Conflict, you have a thorough, step-by-step guide to designing, implementing, and operating a successful peer mediation program at school. Written by an expert specializing in school mediation, the book provides a ready reference for on-going peer mediation programs with comprehensive introduction to conflict resolution, readiness test, session transcripts, and reproducible forms.