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"We were desperate. Now there's hope."
"4 years ago I took a group of teachers to your workshop.
It changed my life. I gained a new understanding of the students I work with
and now share your strategies as part of my new teacher training each year.
Your workshop ranks as my number one ever in all my years of education."
"Nice to sit in a workshop where the instructor knows Job Corps.
It fit our setting. Finally, after 23 years of workshops, someone gets it."
"Five hours in L.A. gridlock. Your information brought me back."
"All youth workers should be exposed to this."
"I've visited your site, attended workshops,
bought materials, and depended on your information for over ten years now. The training I attended
was excellent, eye opening. Thanks for all that you do for us out here on the front lines."
"Can't wait to share your ideas with our staff.
I loved the way you tailored the interventions to the type of student.
It was refreshing to finally attend a workshop where the presenter
actually presented and didn't fill the workshop with
'touchy feely' activities with little relevance."
"Your workshop is an eye-opener."
"What Can I say, but 'thank you' for everything. You guys are the best.
Let me know if there is anything that I can do to repay you guys for your services."
Do you know a Nix-Master? Sure you do. It's the
child who says "no" to nearly anything. Some of these
children are loud and defiant, others are quietly and
politely non-compliant. Whether they're loud or quiet,
they're not doing what they're asked to do.
No adult ever won a power struggle with a child, and no
adult ever will. The minute you get into a power struggle with
a child, you've already lost. Instead, choose interventions
that work around the resistance. Nearly nonstop nay-saying is a normal part of development
that prepares teens to become independent. Here are
techniques to use with youth or children who evidence
normal non-compliance, and those who use behaviors
that go well beyond "typical" into seriously defiant:
Solutions for Defiance & Power Struggles
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Solutions for Defiance & Power Struggles
Defying authority can become the top issue above
all else.
Solutions for Defiance & Power Struggles
Help students realize that compliance is not
arbitrary but essential.
Solutions for Defiance & Power Struggles
Who would you work harder for-- the boss
who is a dictator or the boss who is a
participatory manager? Most of us, whether adults
or kids, want to have a say at work or school.
Allowing youth input prepares them for the self-management they must do throughout life when
supervising adults aren't present to provide guidance.
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for details on recorded workshops
or call 1-800-545-5736.
Make the 1 or 2 day investment that delivers year-long results.
Bring the popular Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel
Troubled Youth Workshop to your entire team, or to your conference.
Your staff name the problems; we deliver hundreds of ready-to-use,
problem-stopping answers.
For more information on affordable on-site presentations, click here,
click here to email us, or call 1-800-545-5736.
Don't forget:
We can arrange $55 college
grad credit and no-charge clock
hours.
It's easy to use the workshop
as a dynamite fund raiser; click to find out more.
Best of all:
on-site classes are both effective and surprisingly affordable!
Where in the World
These unusually powerful books are all it takes to turnaround your troubled and challenging students right now.
Available as paperbacks and instant ebooks, $15-$28.
Click for details.
"We were desperate. Now there's hope."
"4 years ago I took a group of teachers to your workshop.
It changed my life. I gained a new understanding of the students I work with
and now share your strategies as part of my new teacher training each year.
Your workshop ranks as my number one ever in all my years of education."
"Nice to sit in a workshop where the instructor knows Job Corps.
It fit our setting. Finally, after 23 years of workshops, someone gets it."
"Five hours in L.A. gridlock. Your information brought me back."
"All youth workers should be exposed to this."
"I've visited your site, attended workshops,
bought materials, and depended on your information for over ten years now. The training I attended
was excellent, eye opening. Thanks for all that you do for us out here on the front lines."
"Can't wait to share your ideas with our staff.
I loved the way you tailored the interventions to the type of student.
It was refreshing to finally attend a workshop where the presenter
actually presented and didn't fill the workshop with
'touchy feely' activities with little relevance."
"Your workshop is an eye-opener."
"What Can I say, but 'thank you' for everything. You guys are the best.
Let me know if there is anything that I can do to repay you guys for your services."
As we discussed in the last issue of this magazine,
School Skills Training can change your life, and the lives of your students.
School Skills Training means that
you teach your youngsters how to be students, just like you teach your youngsters academic subject matter.
Amazingly, most school districts have carefully crafted, elaborate plans for teaching academic content, but no
curriculum at all to teach the foundation School Skills that youngsters need to
fully take advantage of academic offerings. School Skills Training should include teaching students to be motivated,
appropriately dressed, how to interact with other students, how to ride the bus, behave in the
hallways, and also how to complete assignments,
attend every school day, and have acceptable teacher interaction skills.
Here is one example of one school district's School Skills Training Plan.
View and print a sample curriculum plan here. Allow 2 minutes for the document to download.
Further below, are 3 sample printable worksheets that you can use to train kids how to look,
act, and sound like students. You'll find that teaching kids to be students works much better than
just stating the rules and expectations. Without having School Skills, students will struggle to follow
the rules and avoid consequences. With School Skills, students are practiced veterans at performing
the skills they need for school, and now can achieve their full potential.
Stop Classroom Management Problems
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Stop Classroom Management Problems
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1-800-545-5736 to grab one now. $55 College Credit and 10 no-charge CEUs offered.
Click
for details on recorded workshops
or call 1-800-545-5736.
Make the 1 or 2 day investment that delivers year-long results.
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Troubled Youth Workshop to your entire team, or to your conference.
Your staff name the problems; we deliver hundreds of ready-to-use,
problem-stopping answers.
For more information on affordable on-site presentations, click here,
click here to email us, or call 1-800-545-5736.
Don't forget:
We can arrange $55 college
grad credit and no-charge clock
hours.
It's easy to use the workshop
as a dynamite fund raiser; click to find out more.
Best of all:
on-site classes are both effective and surprisingly affordable!
Where in the World
These unusually powerful books are all it takes to turnaround your troubled and challenging students right now.
Available as paperbacks and instant ebooks, $15-$28.
Click for details.
School Skills Training. It could change your life, and the lives of your students. School Skills Training means that
you teach your youngsters how to be students, just like you teach your youngsters academic subject matter.
Your school district has a carefully planned curriculum for teaching academic content, but no
curriculum at all to teach the foundation
School Skills that youngsters need to take advantage of the academic offerings. Even though all schools want
students to be motivated, have a good attitude, be
appropriately dressed, arrive on time, have class discussion skills,
and complete assignments, few schools have
any plan at all to teach students how to do all that. Here it is, the start of a new school year, and all around
the country schools are expecting students to have basic School Skills that they've actually
never been systematically
taught. That is why so many kids don't look, act, or sound like students. They haven't been taught.
If you are
tired of the endless classroom management problems that gobble up a whopping 22 minutes of each 50 minute
period of instruction, then be sure you develop and follow a School Skills Training
game plan for transforming kids into prepared,
motivated students with positive attitudes.
View and print a sample curriculum plan here. Allow 2 minutes for the document to download.
Stop Classroom Management Problems
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Poster #203, pictured above, gives an unmistakable image
of the problem behavior, and makes it tough for students to claim
"But I didn't know what was considered saggy pants."
Poster #226, shown
at left, can start the conversation about attendance. In the discussion, assist students to develop
quantifiable guidelines, such as the number of
times per class period to use the rest room during class, and how to plan to use the bathroom in between classes,
and so on. Stating the rules should always be just a small part of the process. To gain compliance with your rules,
and have satisfactory classroom management, the main thrust must be to provide on-going instruction
that gives students
the skills they need to follow the rules.
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Stop Classroom Management Problems
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be so difficult...with our ready-to-use
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defiance, violence, and more.
Contact us now, and begin solving your worst
"kid problems" today.
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Library of Congress ISSN: 1526-9981 | Youth Change, Your Problem-Kid Problem-Solver
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Half-price $84 work-study slots are available. Call us at
1-800-545-5736 to grab one now. $55 College Credit and 10 no-charge CEUs offered.
Click
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or call 1-800-545-5736.
Make the 1 or 2 day investment that delivers year-long results.
Bring the popular Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel
Troubled Youth Workshop to your entire team, or to your conference.
Your staff name the problems; we deliver hundreds of ready-to-use,
problem-stopping answers.
For more information on affordable on-site presentations, click here,
click here to email us, or call 1-800-545-5736.
Don't forget:
We can arrange $55 college
grad credit and no-charge clock
hours.
It's easy to use the workshop
as a dynamite fund raiser; click to find out more.
Best of all:
on-site classes are both effective and surprisingly affordable!
Where in the World
These unusually powerful books are all it takes to turnaround your troubled and challenging students right now.
Available as paperbacks and instant ebooks, $15-$28.
Click for details.
Someday they may call your students the "Facebook Generation." Their worlds revolve around all things electronic.
As a consequence, the venue for student problems is shifting from the real world to the virtual one.
Unfortunately, virtual world problems can be very much real world problems too. At our workshops, we
are getting a lot more requests for help with students who are facing or engaging in cyber-bullying. We
also have been getting
a lot of questions about what to do about students who are literally trashing their own reputations
and credibility by posting damaging pictures and comments about partying, substance abuse, their interpersonal
relationships, and their feelings about their teachers and bosses. In a time when more and more employers and
colleges are requiring access to applicants' Facebook and My Space pages, students continue to make
themselves unemployable and unlikely admission candidates when their less-than-sedate lives are splayed
all over the internet-- forever.
In this issue, you will be seeing cutting-edge, never-seen-before, powerful new tools for the Facebook
generation. They are designed to reduce the cyber-bullying, and self-harm your students may be
involved in on internet social network sites. Just like the saying, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,"
"What happens on the internet stays on the internet," potentially forever. Help your students avoid being
haunted forever by indiscretions, vulnerabilities, or misbehavior that they exposed to the world when they
where just thirteen or fifteen or seventeen.
FACEBOOK
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The intervention
pictured above gives you state-of-the-art tools to educate your students before they are
harmed in cyberspace. It shows a Facebook page where a student has made negative comments
about his job, and revealed his substance abuse.
This worksheet/poster brings the cyber world and real world
together. Ask students to view this worksheet through the eyes of a boss, school
admissions officer, or apartment manager. (Thanks to special ed teacher, Chris Wells
for this truly amazing worksheet.)
To get the printable with no charge,
follow the quick steps shown below.
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CYBER-BULLYING
CYBER-BULLYING
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The worksheet shown at left is a mock-up of a blank Facebook-style internet page. There are endless
ways to use this printable: 1.) Ask students
to name the types of comments that constitute cyber-bullying, and include negative remarks
about peers. 2.) You can print out this worksheet and have students complete it using pens, or you
can open this document on a computer program such as Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, and let
students edit the worksheet that way. 3.) After completing and discussing the worksheet, help
students establish a standard for knowing "What to never post..." on Facebook and similar sites.
Assist them to discover standards like "only post what you want you would want a boss, apartment
manager, or college admissions officer to see,"
or "...what would still be viewed as acceptable in 2 years," or "what you know will never be
called cyber crime." 4.) After completing and discussing the worksheet, ask
students to use the internet to research the new laws that are emerging
throughout the country that provide stiff sanctions for cyber-bullying.
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be so difficult...with our ready-to-use
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defiance, violence, and more.
Contact us now, and begin solving your worst
"kid problems" today.
Call 800-545-5736, reply to this email, or
click here to email us.
Library of Congress ISSN: 1526-9981 | Youth Change, Your Problem-Kid Problem-Solver
Next Classes :
Behavior problems stop here.
Half-price $84 work-study slots are available. Call us at
1-800-545-5736 to grab one now. $55 College Credit and 10 no-charge CEUs offered.
Click
for details on recorded workshops
or call 1-800-545-5736.
Make the 1 or 2 day investment that delivers year-long results.
Bring the popular Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel
Troubled Youth Workshop to your entire team, or to your conference.
Your staff name the problems; we deliver hundreds of ready-to-use,
problem-stopping answers.
For more information on affordable on-site presentations, click here,
click here to email us, or call 1-800-545-5736.
Don't forget:
We can arrange $55 college
grad credit and no-charge clock
hours.
It's easy to use the workshop
as a dynamite fund raiser; click to find out more.
Best of all:
on-site classes are both effective and surprisingly affordable!
Where in the World
These unusually powerful books are all it takes to turnaround your troubled and challenging students right now.
Available as paperbacks and instant ebooks, $15-$28.
Click for details.
It's been the top story in the news: bullied students committing suicide because they can't cope with the
bullying. Even veteran counselors and social workers worry they might not always notice every
student who is so distressed that they might engage in serious self-harm,
but the reality is that the front line of "first responders" is
actually made up of educators, who may not have even have mental health expertise. Further, many educators
may have dozens and dozens of students they see each day. That glimpse into a young person's world
may not be enough for a teacher to become aware that a student is in serious emotional distress.
Especially as schools increase teacher-student ratios, effectively tracking emotionally fragile students
becomes harder and harder for even the most dedicated, aware educator.
Despite the significant obstacles educators face when working with deeply troubled youngsters,
none of us ever want to wonder if we did absolutely
everything we could to spot and stop bullying, and the staggering consequences that can follow.
This issue of our magazine is designed to help you be as pro-active as possible to prevent a tragedy at your site, but by
no means is this short tutorial comprehensive, so if you suspect safety issues, tell your administrator
immediately. In the meantime, you can strive to better equip yourself, your students, and your school to be
a place where bullying and ensuing tragedies are less likely to happen. This article is a first step in that effort.
For more help, come to our
Seattle May 6-7 Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop (click). Bad
budget? We've added two more work-study slots if you need financial aid. Call 800-545-5736 for details.
You can also take the
distance learning workshop (click), or schedule us to provide a
professional development inservice at your site. We also have free
online articles,
tutorials, strategies and more on bullying (click), or call 800-545-5736.
We're here to help you help your students.
EDUCATE VICTIMS AND POTENTIAL VICTIMS
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STOP USING INEFFECTIVE APPROACHES TO CONTROL BULLIES
Here's a few examples of strategies that don't rely on
the bully being able to have or rapidly develop compassion. Ask the bully to make
a list of all the activities that he wants to do in life, then have the youngster go
through the list and cross out all the items that "go well" with bullying. For example,
the student may list his desire to be a truck driver. Ask the student to consider if
the trucking company boss or the truck dispatcher is going to want to want to take time to
deal with a driver who bullies dispatchers, co-workers, customers, or superiors.
If the student resists, have the student actually talk to a truck company boss
or dispatcher, and ask. If the student says "But I won't bully on the job," challenge the
student to prove it by stopping bullying now for one month. If the student can't or won't stop, ask the student
who else will help him learn how to be different by the time he's on the job. Use the
expression "Bully Today. Bully Tomorrow."
WORK WITH BOTH BULLIES AND THEIR VICTIMS
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To upgrade the victim's skills, focus on spotting aggression before it starts, what to say or do to
avoid victimization, where to go, where to never go, and so on. But the recent student suicides are
a reminder that adults have to help victims cope. Learning to cope emotionally may be as important-- perhaps
more important-- than just learning bullying prevention and survival skills.
The worksheet shown above is from our
Coping Skills Sampler book (click). This intervention can be used effectively with both
bullies and bullied students. For bullies, the worksheet captures the consequences of bullying,
and how those consequences can be so distasteful that it can make bullying less appealing.
For bullied students, this worksheet can show what positive outcome can happen when these youngsters
learn and use new skills to actively avoid bullying. This worksheet also shows bullied students
how failing to take protective steps can predictably yield poor results. The hallmark of
depression is powerlessness. This worksheet can help bullied students feel that their actions
can have impact and power. For bullied students, this worksheet can help convince them to
learn and use new skills, while also helping to combat the feelings of powerlessness that lead
to depression and potentially, to desperate behaviors. To order the
Coping Skills
book, click here. It's on sale for just $7.50 for a limited time;
click for details.
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no-fee lessons and worksheet printables shown in this issue, click here.
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defiance, violence, and more.
Contact us now, and begin solving your worst
"kid problems" today.
Call 800-545-5736, reply to this email, or
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Library of Congress ISSN: 1526-9981 | Youth Change, Your Problem-Kid Problem-Solver
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1-800-545-5736 to grab one now. $55 College Credit and 10 no-charge CEUs offered.
Click
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or call 1-800-545-5736.
Make the 1 or 2 day investment that delivers year-long results.
Bring the popular Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel
Troubled Youth Workshop to your entire team, or to your conference.
Your staff name the problems; we deliver hundreds of ready-to-use,
problem-stopping answers.
For more information on affordable on-site presentations, click here,
click here to email us, or call 1-800-545-5736.
Don't forget:
We can arrange $55 college
grad credit and no-charge clock
hours.
It's easy to use the workshop
as a dynamite fund raiser; click to find out more.
Best of all:
on-site classes are both effective and surprisingly affordable!
Where in the World
These unusually powerful books are all it takes to turnaround your troubled and challenging students right now.
Available as paperbacks and instant ebooks, $15-$28.
Click for details.
We always stress in our workshops that teachers should never
assume that their class participants have any idea how to look, act, or sound like students-- that teachers may
need to teach that before expecting it. That's right. You need to transform kids into students before
you are going to get the kind of behavior you need in your classroom. We call this notion School Skills
Training. School Skills Training techniques take untrained, unmotivated, uncooperative kids
and helps them become skilled, motivated, cooperative students. You may find that this simple,
do-able, time-efficient training approach will rapidly transform your kids and classroom.
TEACH SCHOOL SKILLS BEFORE EXPECTING THEM
What You Miss Today Makes It Harder to Learn Tomorrow
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TEACH SCHOOL SKILLS BEFORE EXPECTING THEM
Even Rock Stars Gonna Need School
TEACH SCHOOL SKILLS BEFORE EXPECTING THEM
I'm Not the Problem at School
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Next Classes :
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1-800-545-5736 to grab one now. $55 College Credit and 10 no-charge CEUs offered.
Click
for details on recorded workshops
or call 1-800-545-5736.
Make the 1 or 2 day investment that delivers year-long results.
Bring the popular Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel
Troubled Youth Workshop to your entire team, or to your conference.
Your staff name the problems; we deliver hundreds of ready-to-use,
problem-stopping answers.
For more information on affordable on-site presentations, click here,
click here to email us, or call 1-800-545-5736.
Don't forget:
We can arrange $55 college
grad credit and no-charge clock
hours.
It's easy to use the workshop
as a dynamite fund raiser; click to find out more.
Best of all:
on-site classes are both effective and surprisingly affordable!
Where in the World
These unusually powerful books are all it takes to turnaround your troubled and challenging students right now.
Available as paperbacks and instant ebooks, $15-$28.
Click for details.
ATTITUDE ADJUSTER
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ATTITUDE ADJUSTER
ATTITUDE ADJUSTER for ADULTS
There is a tiny, little-known winery hidden on the Oregon coast. Inside, there
are all the usual amenities one might expect to find
in a winery, but instead of attempting to get you to open your wallet to buy wine, the owner
attempts to get you to open your wallet to donate to orphaned children in Calcutta. Where you might
expect to see wine lists, you find inspiration. In today's rough economy, it's understandable that
educators and counselors struggle to stay positive. You will be more effective evoking positive attitudes
from your students if you are able to stay positive yourself. All around the winery,
there are pretty paper cards that should advertise the vineyard's newest
bottles. Instead the cards feature a poem that the winery owner
found on the wall of Mother Theresa's children's home in Calcutta.
These inspirational words probably weren't written with
teachers and youth workers in mind, but they could have been.
An edited excerpt from the poem "Anyway" is below.
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Kids are not born instant students, magically knowing what to wear to school, how to interact with teachers,
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reliably prepare students in that manner any more. That means that many teachers are working with
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If you want less defiance, and fewer power struggles, you must first teach
students to anticipate the negative consequences that these problem behaviors produce.
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When you were being trained to be a teacher, cyberbullying hadn't been invented, so you
may feel unprepared to tackle a problem that can happen both in and out of school.
The reality of our world today is that you have to teach every School Skill
behavior you want to happen or stop happening in the classroom and school. This printable
can be used to start a discussion, or students can use it as a template to illustrate what is and
is not cyberbullying. This printable appears to be a familiar social networking site that
is often used for bullying. Until students are clear on what words, phrases, actions, postings,
and text constitute cyberbullying, you are going to struggle to gain compliance. While
it's just a first step, helping students become clear on what is and is not cyberbullying
is a must-do first step. Without an education on the topic, it is too easy for youngsters
to claim "But I didn't think it was cyberbullying." Take that excuse off the table before
students even start to use it this school year. 
Students who post on Facebook and similar sites
about partying, their intimate relationship details, substance abuse, or their
dislike for their employer and job, probably don't realize that they are
doing great self-harm. Make sure your students know that many employers and
university admissions staff are now requiring access to students' Facebook and My Space
pages, and they often ask to review students' blogs. In fact, there are now sites so sophisticated
that bosses and universities don't have to ask. These rogue sites gather pictures and text
from supposedly private pages and blogs. A student may be only 13, but their misdeeds
as a young teen may follow them in cyberspace for the rest of their lives. Youthful errors
used to stay in the past, but that will stop with the Facebook generation. Because the internet
is forever, you can refer to
Facebook as "the accidental resume."
A good place to start is by educating vulnerable students on how and when to ask for help from
adults. It may seem obvious to you that a child would seek aid, but to the child the bullying
can just seem so overwhelming, massive, and permanent, that the child can feel there is no
useful help out there. The printable pictured at left makes a good poster that can be an
on-going reminder. The resource can also be used as a worksheet to start off a discussion
of issues like these: "Will adults know how to help?" and
"What should you do if you feel so hopeless that you want to hurt yourself?"
Gear the discussion to fit the age of your students, but have the discussion right away.
Suicides often seem to engender more suicides, and that is why you need to tackle this safety
issue right away.
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Typically, when it comes to bullies and their victims, schools tend to focus on the bully. While a focus
on the bully is certainly essential, since it takes two for the situation to occur, it is as important
to work with the victim as it is to work with the bully. If you fail to assist the victim to develop the
skills, motivation, and attitude needed to avoid further victimization,
you are failing to use half the tools you have available. To leave all the accountability with the bully--
who has a demonstrated record of not being trustworthy or compassionate-- is unwise, potentially
dangerous, and inappropriate. It is always critical that you upgrade the victim's skills to
prevent and manage victimization. To not do so could be considered negligent.
Attendance may be the single most important School Skill to teach. If students
aren't in class, nothing else matters. Years ago, parents routinely taught their
offspring to regularly attend school. That is not as likely today.
If parents aren't reliably teaching attendance, then you must.
So many students believe that school is a waste. Fortunately, School Skills training gives you
unexpected, innovative techniques to combat the apathy and poor motivation that you see each day in
your classroom.
Students' negative attitudes can quickly create serious, chronic classroom management problems. While
there are plenty of negative attitudes around, few resources exist to turn them around. School
Skill Training covers all aspects of being a successful student-- even how to have a positive attitude
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