Today's teachers are faced with unprecedented challenges ranging from suicides to school violence, shootings, and terrorism. Classroom Crisis The Teacher's Guide explores children's reactions to emergencies and gives steps for stabilizing the classroom. The book describes how to manage individual student and also group behavior during emergencies, how to recognize and deal with post-traumatic behavior, and more. Also includes detailed instructions on how to calm students who are panicked, enraged, or hysterical, and how to activate students who are in shock.

Today's teachers are faced with unprecedented challenges. Students arrive with critical family and personal problems. School-wide emergencies such as shutdowns, campus violence and loss bring unanticipated stress. Community events impact the classroom, and there are threats of disaster, terror and war.

"Written by the national go-to expert on childhood bereavement and school crisis, this new edition text from author David Schonfeld and co-author family therapist Marcia Quackenbush guides teachers through a child's experience of grief and loss. Using empirical research and their extensive experience supporting students, the authors illuminate classroom issues that grief may trigger, and empowers teachers to undertake the job of reaching and helping their students. Full of tips, strategies, vignettes, examples, and insights, Supporting the Grieving Student: A Guide for Schools also includes information on numerous topics relevant to child bereavement in school settings, including: major concepts of death that are crucial to children's understanding of the topic; responding to children's feelings and behaviors; how to effectively communicate with students and their families; commemorative activities; self-care; and providing support when a death affects a whole school community. New to this edition are an expanded online study guide, reflection prompts throughout the book, and new information including: Applications for an expanded audience of school administrators, counselors, social workers, psychologists, support staff, etc., New chapters on suicide loss and providing support in settings outside of K-12 schools, Revised chapters that include new information on social media, ambiguous losses, school crisis and trauma, supporting children with disabilities, and more school policies, line of duty deaths, commemorative activities, A new foreword written by a school administrator from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School As a practical guidebook, Supporting the Grieving Student: A Guide for Schools is essential reading in helpings teachers provide critical, sensitive support to students of all ages"--

Develop emotional intelligence and strengthen social emotional skills in adolescents with this practical, hands-on resource. Helping students develop emotional intelligence (EQ) and social emotional skills is essential to preparing them for success in college, careers, and adult life. This practical resource for educators explains what emotional intelligence is and why it’s important for all students. Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students lays out detailed yet flexible guidelines for teaching fundamental EQ and social emotional skills in an intentional and focused way. The book is split into three modules, which correspond to three main skill areas: Self-awareness and self-management Social awareness and relationship skills Responsible decision-making and problem-solving Each module features ten hands-on, research-based lessons, which are focused on a critical EQ concept and centered around productive and respectful discussion. All lessons are designed to take approximately 35 minutes each but can easily be adapted to meet the specific needs of a school or group as they work to develop emotional intelligence and social emotional skills in their students. Digital content includes reproducible forms to use with students.

With updates in crisis intervention programming and legislation, integration of recent research on school shootings, and other forms of school violence, and the addition of such topics as cyberbullying, relational aggression, and the needs of military families, this second edi...

A step-by-step guidebook for advance preparation and early response to school crises This Second Edition of Preparing for Crises in the Schools arrives at a critical moment. With several recent dramatic examples of school violence and other tragedies afflicting communities nationwide, the need for school districts to take proactive measures–rather than merely react to a crisis–is critical. This completely updated edition offers practical plans for laying the important groundwork to ensure that crisis response will be both immediate and thorough in the wake of tragedy. Authored by three school crisis response planning experts, it offers advice on early detection of trouble, developing plans and procedures to intervene with youths quickly and successfully, and conducting a school in-service workshop on crisis response planning and intervention. Essential for counselors, school psychologists, teachers, and administrators alike, this book helps ensure that schools are not caught by surprise when a crisis occurs.

This handbook for teachers complements The School Leader's Guide to Restorative School Discipline and shows teachers how to create a classroom of positive relationships, where every member of that classroom community feels a sense of belonging, is valued, and accepts responsibility for the well-being of others. The behavior expectations in this book apply to adults as well as students, and lead to positive learning outcomes. Included are interventions for challenging behaviors as well as alternatives to traditional models of punishment, such as in-school suspension, restorative conferencing, and safe crisis intervention. This book is: evidence-based, inclusive, practical, contextual, culturally responsive, and, user-friendly.