| "..Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children. We provide free educational materials to teachers and other school practitioners in the U.S. and abroad. Our self-titled magazine is sent to 400,000 educators twice annually, and tens of thousands of educators use our free curricular kits. More than 10,000 schools participate in our annual Mix It Up at Lunch Day program.." (US) |
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| "..Kia Kaha is a whole school approach to eliminate bullying. It aims to help schools create environments where everyone feels safe, respected and valued, and where bullying cannot flourish. This intervention consists of an Implementation Book Kia Kaha in Your School — a working booklet, (one for primary and one for secondary) which gives a step-by-step guide to putting the whole school approach in place, and four curriculum programmes.." (New Zealand) |
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| Violence Against Teachers and School Staff "...To date, NIOSH intramural and extramural workplace violence research has focused on the highest risk occupations, including health care workers, taxi cab drivers, and retail sales. Because of an increase in the prevalence of school-based policies aimed at reducing violence in youth and recent reports suggesting that teachers and other school staff may face daily threats of workplace violence, NIOSH was prompted to examine risk factors and prevention polices and practices for workplace violence for K-12 school staff..." (US) |
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| "..Find out how issues such as homophobic bullying and text taunts are tackled by the experts including former bullies, governors and teachers - View TV programmes.." (UK) |
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| "..It is compulsory for schools to have measures in place to encourage good behaviour and respect for others on the part of pupils, and to prevent all forms of bullying. The DCSF supports schools in designing their anti-bullying policies, and their strategies to tackle bullying, by providing comprehensive practical-guidance documents..." (UK) |
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| "...The Government's guidance, Bullying involving children with special educational needs and disabilities, has been written for schools and tells them what to do when children with special educational needs and disabilities are bullied.... (UK) |
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| "...Behaviour Needs provide practical training, advice and support for teachers, lecturers, youth workers and teaching assistants working with difficult and vulnerable young people. At the heart of our training is the Needs-Focused™ approach to behaviour management... (UK) |
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| “Teacher Talk” - Violence in the Schools, Volume 2, Issue 3. In this issue of Teacher Talk, Forum participants talk about the nature of conflict in the schools. We expect that it will inform you, provoke new questions, and inspire you to learn more about this serious topic...(US) |
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| Teachers will have power to search all pupils for knives: By Rosemary Bennett, Deputy Political Editor: The Times July 03, 2006: TEACHERS will be authorised to search every pupil in their school if they suspect that there is a knife on the premises, The Times has learnt. Britain’s growing knife culture has prompted ministers to draw up plans for draconian new powers to try to prevent more schoolgate stabbings. It comes as Home Office figures show that the number of children aged 12 to 14 convicted of carrying knives at school doubled between 2000 and 2004 to 170...... |
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| Teachers need support to maintain classroom discipline says the NASUWT. Commenting on the statement by a headteacher’s association that school heads are concealing the problem of bullied teachers, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest UK-wide teachers’ union, said: “This is a staggering admission from a headteacher’s organisation which actually exemplifies the problem teachers are facing in obtaining support to challenge pupil indiscipline. This confirms the NASUWT survey findings..." Feb 28 2008 |
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| "The reason bullying is rife in schools is that there are still too many people who rush to dismiss it as part of growing up." Commenting on a survey by charity Beatbullying, released today (Monday), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest UK-wide teachers' union, (which has just completed a year long series of national seminars on prejudice-related bullying), said: "The reason bullying is rife in schools is that there are still too many people who rush to dismiss it as part of growing up..." Feb 25 2008 |
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