Safe & Healthy Secondary Schools: Strategies to Build Relationships, Teach Respect and Deliver Meaningful Behavioral Support to Students

Susan Lamke · Denise Pratt · Stan Graeve

Jan 2009 · Boys Town Press

About this ebook

In this book, educators learn how teachers, administrators, and support staff can build a collaborative and cooperative learning environment where high school students receive the positive behavioral support they need to suceed. Included are strategies on how to provide adequate supervision, forge relationships with alienated and disconnected students (and their families), and empower students to deal with anger and frustration rationally rather than recklessly. Insights into how the teenage brain influences behavior, for better or worse, are also provided.

Safe and Healthy Secondary Schools uses true-to-life stories to highlight how educators can expand their sphere of influence beyond individual classrooms to all areas of a school. Specific teaching techniques that stop and correct inappropreate behaviors on the spot are explained, as well as methods for building better relationships between educators and students.

About the author

Denis Pratt serves as a trainer/consultant for teachers and administrators with Boys Town?s Education Training Department. Pratt is also a co-author of Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School. She previously served as an experiential educator, teaching interpersonal skills to individuals from second-graders to adults. Her students included public-, private-, and home-schooled children, as well as adjudicated youth and youth in residential care with social and psychiatric diagnoses. She has also worked as a high school guidance counselor and assistant track coach.