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Directory: Handouts
Index of All Handouts on Site
by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
The handouts on this site are among those used in Dr. Bluestein’s workshops and presentations. The list below includes links to all handouts on the site, for all audiences, and are arranged by topic. More information is available in the Articles section of this site.
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21st Century Discipline, Recommended Reading
21st century schools: Information Age Schools vs. Industrial Age Schools
ADD/ADHD symptoms: Conditions with ADHD “Look-Alike” Symptoms
Adult-Child Relationships, Characteristics of healthy relationships: Teacher version; Parent version
Adult-Child Relationships checklist: Teacher version; Parent version
Adult-Child Relationships (unhealthy): Rules and Beliefs of Unhealthy Adult-Child System
Advice Giving, Alternatives: Ask, Don’t Tell
Alternatives for Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings in English, Spanish or French
Assessing the Emotional Climate of Your School (or Classroom or District): Survey: Is your School an Emotionally Safe Place?
At-Risk Children: Children at Risk, Families of Children at Risk
Avoiding conflict: “Magic Sentences"
Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies: Teacher version; Parent version
Bibliography of Creating Emotionally Safe Schools
Boundaries: Characteristics of a Good Boundary, Teacher version; Parent version in English, Spanish or French
Boundaries: Reasons to Use Boundaries; Teacher version; Parent version in English, Spanish or French
Boundaries: Things to Remember about Setting a Boundary: Teacher version; Parent version in English, Spanish or French
Brain, The: Stress & The Brain
Building Decision-Making Skills
Building Home-School Relationships: Dealing Successfully with Your Students’ Parents
Changing role of schools, the: Information Age Schools vs. Industrial Age Schools
Changing your thoughts and beliefs: Examples of Some New Ways of Thinking
Characteristics of a Good Boundary: Teacher version; Parent version in English, Spanish or French
Characteristics of Healthy Adult-Child Relationships: Teacher version; Parent version
Checklist for Healthy Adult-Child Relationships: Teacher version; Parent version
Children at Risk, Families of Children at Risk
Children in Crisis: Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems) in English, Spanish or French
Choices, Guidelines for Offering: Teacher Version; Parent version
Classroom Management: Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies
Conditions with ADHD “Look-Alike” Symptoms
Conflict Prevention & Conflict Resolution: Strategies
Cooperative Behavior, Motivating : Teacher version; Parent version
Creating an Emotionally Safe Environment: Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment
Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, Bibliography
Critical Thinking: Building Decision-Making Skills
Critical Thinking, Helping Kids Develop: Alternatives to Advice-Giving: Ask, Don’t Tell
Dangers of Encouraging Obedience and People-Pleasing
Decision-Making Skills, Building
Dealing Successfully with Your Students’ Parents
Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems): Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment
Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems), Nonsupportive Responses in English, Spanish or French
Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems): Supportive Alternatives to Nonsupportive Responses in English, Spanish or French
Differentiation: The Animal School
Discipline: Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies: Teacher version; Parent version
Dysfunctional Patterns in Schools: The School as a Dysfunctional Family
Emotional Safety at School: Stressful or Painful School Experiences that can Compromise Emotional Safety
Emotional Safety in your Classroom, School or District: Survey: Is your School an Emotionally Safe Place?
Emotional Support: Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment
Emotional Support: Nonsupportive Responses to a Child’s Feelings (or Problems) in English, Spanish or French
Emotional Support: Supportive Alternatives for Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings in English, Spanish or French
Encouraging Obedience and People-Pleasing, Dangers of
Examples of Some New Ways of Thinking
Excuses, Reasons to Not ask for: Teacher version; Parent version
Families of Children at Risk; Children at Risk
Feelings: Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems), Nonsupportive Responses in English, Spanish or French
Feelings: Supportive Alternatives for Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings in English, Spanish or French
Following Through: Reasons to Not ask for excuses: Teacher version; Parent version
Guidelines for Handling Negative Behavior: Teacher version; Parent version
Guidelines for Offering Choices: Teacher version; Parent version
Guidelines for Reinforcing Positive Behavior: Teacher version; Parent version
Handling Negative Behavior, Guidelines for : Teacher version; Parent version
Healthy Adult-Child Relationships, Characteristics of: Teacher version; Parent version
Healthy Adult-Child Relationships checklist: Teacher version; Parent version
Home-school Relationships: Dealing Successfully with Your Students’ Parents
Hydration and learning: Water & the Body
“I-Messages?”, What’s Wrong with: Handout; Separte Article
Information Age Schools vs. Industrial Age Schools
Intervention: Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies: Teacher version; Parent version
Intervention, Motivation and Reinforcement: Self-Assessment for Educators
Is your School an Emotionally Safe Place? (Survey)
Language in Interactions: “Magic Sentences” for Avoiding Conflict
Learning Differences: The Animal School
Learning Differences: The “Ideal” Student
Learning Differences: Multiple Intelligences: Many Ways to be “Smart”
Learning Differences: Ways to Reach More Students
Learning Differences: Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations
“Magic Sentences” for Avoiding Conflict
Management: Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies: Teacher version; Parent version
Modality and Sensory Differences: Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations
Motivating Cooperative Behavior: Teacher version; Parent version
Motivation, Reinforcement and Intervention: Self-Assessment for Educators
Multiple Intelligences: Many Ways to be “Smart”
Myth of the Self-Esteem “Myth”, The
Negative Behavior, Guidelines for Handling: Teacher version; Parent version
New Ways of Thinking, Examples of
Nonsupportive Responses to Children’s Feelings (or Problems) in English, Spanish or French
Obedience and People-Pleasing, Dangers of Encouraging
Obstacles in Relationships that cause Stress
Offering Choices, Guidelines for : Teacher Version; Parent version
Optimism: Ways to Live Optimistically
Painful or Stressful School Experiences that can Compromise Emotional Safety
People-Pleasing and Obedience, Dangers of Encouraging
Positive Behavior, Guidelines for Reinforcing: Teacher version; Parent version
Problem Solving: Alternatives to Advice-Giving: Ask, Don’t Tell
Reach More Students: Strategies
Reasons to Not ask for Excuses: Teacher version; Parent version
Reasons to Use Boundaries: Teachers version; Parent versionin English, Spanish or French
Recommended Reading from 21st Century Discipline
Reinforcing Positive Behavior, Guidelines for: Teacher version; Parent version
Reinforcement, Intervention and Motivation: Self-Assessment for Educators
Relationships: Characteristics of Healthy Adult-Child Relationships: Teacher version; Parent version
Relationships: Healthy Adult-Child Relationships checklist: Teacher version; Parent version
Relationships: “Magic Sentences” for Avoiding Conflict
Relationships: Rules and Beliefs of Unhealthy Adult-Child System
Relationships: Stress-Producing Obstacles in Relationships
Responses to Avoid: Supportiveness: Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems) in English, Spanish or French
Responses to Feelings: Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment
Responses to Feelings, Positive: Supportive Alternatives for Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings in English, Spanish or French
Risk: Children at Risk, Families of Children at Risk
Risk: Educators at Risk
Rules and Beliefs of Unhealthy Adult-Child System
School as a Dysfunctional Family, The
School Experiences: Stressful or Painful School Experiences that can Compromise Emotional Safety
Self-Assessment for Educators: Motivation, Reinforcement and Intervention
Self-Care: Educators at Risk
Self-Care: Ways to Live in Gratitude
Self-Care: Ways to Live Optimistically
Self-Esteem: The Myth of the Self-Esteem “Myth”
Sensory and Modality Differences: Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations
Setting a Boundary, Things to Remember about: Teacher version; Parent version in English, Spanish or French
Social Culture in the School: Ways to Improve the School's Social Culture
Strategies: Conflict Prevention & Conflict Resolution
Stressful or Painful School Experiences that can Compromise Emotional Safety
Stress-Producing Obstacles in Relationships
Supportiveness: Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment
Supportiveness: Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems) in English, Spanish or French
Supportiveness: Supportive Alternatives for Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings in English, Spanish or French
Survey: Is your School an Emotionally Safe Place?
Things to Remember about Setting a Boundary: Teacher version; Parent version in English, Spanish or French
Traditional Learner, Description of the: The “Ideal” Student
Unhealthy Adult-Child System, Rules and Beliefs of
Ways to Improve the School's Social Culture
What’s Wrong with “I-Messages?”: Handout; Separte Article
Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations
Your Students’s Parents: Dealing Successfully with Your Students’ Parents
Complete listing of all articles and handouts in Spanish or French.
Complete listing of all handouts on this site by topic.
Complete alphabetical listing of all articles on this site.
Complete listing by topic of all articles on this site.
Site Map by Topic • Alphabetical Site Map
Books, Articles, Audio and Video Resources and other Resources by Dr. Jane Bluestein
Humor and Fun: Brighten your day with fun facts, short pieces about kids, pets and work, and hilarious things kids say, do and write. Includes items you can share with kids or use as a springboard for discussions and activities.
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© 2008, Jane Bluestein, Ph.D., Instructional Support Services, Inc.
Last updated on
September 15, 2007 4:00 PM
