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Ways to Improve
the School’s Social Culture

by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.

Increase awareness, advocacy and a willingness to take immediate, positive action (regarding how kids treat one another).

Use conflicts as opportunities to teach, build interactive skills and positive attitudes and beliefs about others (rather than simply punishing violators).

Build problem solving skills. (Ask, don’t tell.)

Build social skills or friendship skills as needed.

Build emotional intelligence, resilience, self-control.

Model tolerance and respect (avoid double standards).

Work to deglamorize and eliminate elitist status
of certain students over others. (Value all students, holding a wider range of possible contributions in high regard.)

Provide opportunities for service.

Remember, we don't teach tolerance by punishing intolerance.

Excerpted and adapted from The Win-Win Classroom, revised edition, by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D. © 2008, Corwin Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA.

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See other handouts and excerpts from The Win-Win Classroom and Creating Emotionally Safe Schools:

Stressful or Painful School Experiences that can affect learning and behavior in negative ways

Rules and Boundaries

Guidelines for Reinforcing Positive Behavior

Self-Assessment

Dealing Successfully with your Students’ Parents

Getting Away with Success

Rules and Boundaries

Handling Negative Behavior

Industrial Age vs. Information Age Classrooms

Guidelines for Offering Choices

Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies

Win-Win Ideas for Administrators

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