Planning and Implementation Guide to Safe and Supportive Schools
Osher, David, Kevin Dwyer and Stephanie Jackson, Safe, Supportive and Successful Schools: Step by Step, Sopris West Eductional Services (2004).
This book and CD-ROM provide tools for helping a school form a planning team that can make comprehensive changes in school climate and discipline. The book helps a team move their vision into a comprehensive action plan, from development and implementation to sustaining and regulating. It will also help the planning team avoid common mistakes by providing vital information in advance: needs assessments, financial planning, funding resources, staff support strategies, surveys, and checklists. These materials also provide useful information about outside resources that can provide training to schools on different approaches to classroom management, conflict resolution, etc. The values these materials are based on include: a positive school culture and climate, supporting the development of all students, and responding to diverse students based on what each student needs.