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  • “Creating Birds of Similar Feathers”: The power of creating teacher-student similarities

    October 29, 2014   |   Blog

    Based on the premise that positive relationships between middle and high school students and their teachers can lead to better educational outcomes, “Creating birds of similar feathers: Leveraging similarity to improve teacher-student relationships and academic achievement,” by Hunter Gehlbach, Maureen E. Brinkworth, Aaron King, Laura Hsu, Joe McIntyre, and Todd Rogers, focuses on a simple intervention…

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  • School Discipline Covered by “This American Life” 

    October 27, 2014   |   Blog | Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support

    In its October 17 show, the radio show and podcast “This American Life” aired “Is This Working?” which focused on the challenges presented by school discipline. The episode looks at a variety of challenges, suggesting that no one has a clear sense of what works well to keep young people safe, secure, and engaged. For…

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  • Thoughts from Countering Bullying and Harassment Author Jane Harrison

    October 16, 2014   |   Blog | Countering Bullying and Harassment

    To conclude our focus on Countering Bullying and Harassment: Skill-Based Lessons to Move from Bystander to Ally, in conjunction with National Bullying Prevention Month, we’re sharing thoughts from an interview with author and Engaging Schools professional services consultant Jane Harrison. Jane has over 40 years of experience in education as a teacher, mentor, adjunct university…

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  • Are classrooms and schools ready for an effective anti-bullying curriculum?

    October 15, 2014   |   Blog | Countering Bullying and Harassment | Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support

    In our ongoing series in conjunction with National Bullying Prevention Month, we’ll consider recommendations that will help educators and school leaders to determine whether their classroom or school’s conditions will properly support a program that helps students identify, resist, and address various forms of bullying and harassment. While these recommendations were developed for and adapted from Countering Bullying and…

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  • Countering Bullying and Harassment: Curriculum Background, Lesson Structure and Implementation

    October 14, 2014   |   Blog | Countering Bullying and Harassment | Publications

    To help middle and high school educators access high-quality resources that will help them support students to recognize, resist, and address bullying and harassment, we’re following up on last week’s overview of Countering Bullying and Harassment: Skill-Based Lessons to Move from Bystander to Ally. Countering Bullying and Harassment, our pro-social, anti-bullying curriculum for sixth through tenth graders, shares an approach…

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  • A Look Inside “Countering Bullying and Harassment”

    October 9, 2014   |   Advisory Plus | Blog | Countering Bullying and Harassment | Engaged Classrooms | Publications | Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support

    In conjunction with October’s status as National Bullying Prevention Month, we’re sharing a look inside our related publication, Countering Bullying and Harassment: Skill-Based Lessons to Move from Bystander to Ally. Engaging Schools published this curriculum, focused on grades 6-10, in 2013. Author Jane Harrison, who is also an Engaging Schools professional services consultant, brought her…

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  • Syracuse City Schools Move to Restorative Discipline with New Code of Conduct

    October 2, 2014   |   Blog | Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support

    A recent WRVO public radio news report, “Syracuse school district has new discipline guidelines” shares news about the progress that the Syracuse, New York public schools have made toward creating more restorative, less punitive disciplinary measures. In collaboration with Engaging Schools’ Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support program, the district convened a 50-member task force that…

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  • Engaging Schools Releases Personal Opportunity Plan White Paper

    September 22, 2014   |   Advisory Plus | Blog

    With support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Schott Foundation for Public Education, we’re delighted to share our new research paper, “Conditions and Considerations for Effective Development and Implementation of Personal Opportunity Plans by the Commonwealth, Districts, and Schools,” by Engaging Schools senior consultant Carol Miller Lieber. “Personal Opportunity Plans” contributes to the…

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  • What’s an Engaging School?

    September 4, 2014   |   Blog | Engaging Schools

    We are Engaging Schools—but what’s an engaging school? In our vision of an engaging school, staff members and everyone in the school community hold a collective belief that all students have wonder, are curious and interested, and have the capacity to become deeply engaged learners. In engaging schools, teaching and learning improve. Teachers use a…

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  • Welcome to Engaging Schools

    August 22, 2014   |   Blog | Engaging Schools

    Welcome to Engaging Schools, formerly known as Educators for Social Responsibility. We’re delighted to show you the result of nearly two years of planning and creation.  Why did we change our name? During the past several years, we came to understand that our name, Educators for Social Responsibility, confused people. Some people thought we were…

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