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“Magic Sentences” for Avoiding Conflict

Reasons to Use Boundaries

Reasons to Not ask for excuses

Things to Remember about Setting a Boundary

Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies

Dangers of Encouraging Obedience and People-Pleasing

Guidelines for Offering Choices

Handling Negative Behavior

Reinforcing Positive Behavior

Motivating Cooperative Behavior

Self-Assessment

Characteristics of Healthy Adult-Child Relationships

Examples of Some New Ways of Thinking

Rules and Beliefs of Unhealthy Adult-Child System

Being a Successful Teacher

Responsibility, Respect & Relationships (Video series)

Creating Emotionally Safe Schools (Video)

Responsibility & Classroom Discipline (Video)

Discipline & Achievement (Video)

Connecting with Students & Parents (Video)

Teacher Tape (Cassette)

“Pads” on the Back

“The Beauty of Losing Control” (article)

“Great Expectations ” (article)

“Why Ask Why?” (article)

21st Century Discipline

Conflict in the Classroom

Dealing with Difficult Students: Practical Strategies for Success with Defiant, Defeated and other At-Risk Kid

Getting Off on the Right Foot (focus: Beginning Teachers)

Grownups, Kids & Boundaries

Positively Positive: Keeping the Focus You Want

“You Can’t Make Me!” Using Boundaries and Win-Win Power Dynamics in the Classroom

Emotionally-Safe Schools

Brave New World:
The Changing Role of the School

The Discipline Trap: Catching up to the 21st Century

21st Century Discipline: Implications for Administrators

Interview: Creating Emotionally Safe Schools

Characteristics of Healthy Adult-Child Relationships

Children at Risk, Families of Children at Risk

Conflict Prevention & Resolution Strategies

Dealing Successfully with Your Students’ Parents

Information Age Schools vs. Industrial Age Schools

Rules and Beliefs of Unhealthy Adult-Child Systems

The School as a Dysfunctional Family

Survey: Is your School an Emotionally Safe Place?

Stressful or Painful School Experiences that can Compromise Emotional Safety

Ways to Improve the School's Social Culture

Responsibility, Respect & Relationships (Video series)

Creating Emotionally Safe Schools (Video)

Responsibility & Classroom Discipline (Video)

Emotional Safety & Learning Styles (Video)

Helping Students in Crisis (Video)

Connecting with Students & Parents (Video)

Teacher Tape (Cassette)

Conflict in the Classroom: Attacking Problems, NOT People!

Creating Emotionally Safe Schools

Dealing with Difficult Students: Practical Strategies for Success with Defiant, Defeated and other At-Risk Kids

Is Your School an Emotionally Safe Place?

“My Brain Doesn’t Work Like That!”

“No, Really! I'm Fine!” Supporting Kids in Crisis

Leadership

21st Century Discipline: Implications for Administrators

Brave New World:
The Changing Role of the School

Secrets of Successful Mentorship

Responsibility, Respect & Relationships (Video series)

“Secrets of Successful Mentorship” (article)

The Soft-Drink Dilemma: Finding Win-Win Solutions in a Win-Lose World

Testing, Testing: Surviving the Pressure

Learning and Teaching

Getting Away With Success

Great Expectations (for New Teachers)

Testing, Testing...

NCLB: The Football Version

Thank You, Mrs. Mather

Ways to Be an Effective Mentor

Why I Teach

Links to other articles about testing and NCLB

The Animal School

Children at Risk, Families of Children at Risk

Conditions with ADHD “Look-Alike” Symptoms

The “Ideal” Student

Multiple Intelligences: Many Ways to be “Smart”

Taking a Stand Against Homework

Stress & The Brain

Water & The Body

Ways to Reach More Students

Working With Different Sensory/Modality Strengths and Limitations

What About Homework?

Making Homework WORK: Building Flexibility into Your Homework Policy

Rx: Handwriting

Responsibility, Respect & Relationships (Video series)

Emotional Safety & Learning Styles (Video)

Discipline & Achievement (Video)

Teacher Tape (Cassette)

“My Brain Doesn’t Work Like That!”

The “I Can” Classroom: Building for Success and Achievement for ALL Students

Testing, Testing: Surviving the Pressure

Being a Successful Teacher: The “Nuts & Bolts” of Classroom Management

Parenting: Discipline, Boundaries and Follow Through

Characteristics of a Good Boundary

Reasons to Use Boundaries

Reasons to Not ask for Excuses

Things to Remember about Setting a Boundary

Ways to be More Proactive

The Challenge of Setting Boundaries

Ways to Build Irresponsibility in Your Child

Link to an interview in San Francisco Chronicle: Parents’ Gizmos High on Tech, Low on Trust

Win-Win Parenting (Video)

Parent Tapes on CD

Parents, Teens & Boundaries: How to Draw the Line

“Bedtime Without a Battle” (article)

“Following Through ” (article)

“Is Obedience Enough? ” (article)

“Not Now ” (article)

“Proactivity: Thinking Ahead” (article)

“Why Ask Why?” (article)

“You Can’t Make Me!” Using Boundaries to Build Responsibility, Cooperation & Mutual Respect

Parenting: Motivation, Reinforcement and Intervention; Skill Building

Behavior Management: Intervention Strategies

Dangers of Encouraging Obedience and People-Pleasing

Guidelines for Offering Choices

Guidelines for Handling Negative Behavior

Guidelines for Reinforcing Positive Behavior

“Magic Sentences” for Avoiding Conflict

Motivating Cooperative Behavior

Benefits of Asking Questions Instead of Giving Answers

No-Lose Parenting

Teachers Taking a Stand Against Homework

What About Homework?

Is Your Child’s Homework Worth Doing?

“Ask, Don’t Tell ” (article)

Win-Win Parenting (Video)

Parent Tapes on CD

Pushing Prevention: Preventing Substance Abuse and Other Addictive and Destructive Behaviors

“Dream Big ” (article)

“I’m Calling Your Mother ” (article)

“No-Lose Parenting ” (article)

“Unconditional Motivation ” (article)

Character Counts: Building Relationships that Build Character

“My Brain Doesn’t Work Like That!”

“No, Really! I'm Fine!”

Parenting: Relationship Building

Model Respect with Your Child

How Do You Parent?

Ways to Become a More Conscious Parent

Ways to Be an Effective Mentor

What’s Wrong With “I-Messages”?

The Seven Worst Things to Say to Your Kids During a Divorce

Characteristics of Healthy Adult-Child Relationships

Examples of Some New Ways of Thinking

Rules and Beliefs of Unhealthy Adult-Child System

Parenting info in Spanish.

Parenting info in French.

Win-Win Parenting (Video)

Parent Tapes on CD

Positively Positive at Home: Keeping the Focus You Want

“Positively Positive” (article)

“Saying “I Love You’ ” (article)

“What’s Wrong with I-Messages” (article)

Personal & Professional Relationships

A reason, a season or a lifetime(Relationships)

“Are Your Colleagues Driving You Crazy?” (article)

Responsibility, Respect & Relationships (Video series)

Connecting with Students & Parents (Video)

Are Your Colleagues Driving you Crazy?

“I’m Calling Your Mother ” (article)

“Secrets of Successful Mentorship” (article)

“What’s Wrong with I-Messages?” (article)

Boundary Setting 101: The Basics of Accountability and Self-Care

Clearing the Hurdles: Eliminating Stress-Producing Obstacles in Relationships

Secrets of Successful Mentorship

The Soft-Drink Dilemma: Finding Win-Win Solutions in a Win-Lose World

Professional Growth & Career Enhancement

So You Want to Write a Book?

“Great Expectations ” (article)

“Secrets of Successful Mentorship” (article)

What's a Purchase Order? Confessions of an Accidental CEO

Recommended Reading

Bibliography of Creating Emotionally Safe Schools

Self-Care and Inspiration

6 Ways to Take More Time for Yourself

36 Things You Can Do To Feel Great!

What is Optimal Self-Esteem

Dimensions of Gratitude

Educators at Risk

Examples of Some New Ways of Thinking

Stress-Producing Obstacles in Relationships

Water & the Body

Ways to Live in Gratitude

Ways to Live Optimistically

Self-care info in Spanish.

Self-care info in French.

What Teachers Make

Daily Riches

Boundary Setting 101: The Basics of Accountability and Self-Care

Responsibility, Respect & Relationships (Video series)

Teacher Tape (Cassette)

“Thank a Teacher” (article)

Daily Riches: An Abundance of Gratitude

Social and Emotional Development

Bearing Witness: Support for Children in Crisis

Alternatives to Advice-Giving: Ask, Don’t Tell

Beliefs that Help Create a Safe Emotional Environment

Building Decision-Making Skills

The Myth of the Self-Esteem “Myth”

Supportive Alternatives for Dealing with Other People’s Problems and Feelings

Supportiveness: Dealing with a Child’s Feelings (or Problems)

Creating Emotionally Safe Schools (Video)

Responsibility & Classroom Discipline (Video)

Helping Students in Crisis (Video)

Teacher Tape (Cassette)