Creating Schools That Heal Real-Life Solutions

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This important and timely volume: - Helps educators read the signs of distress or problematic social/emotional development as they are likely to manifest themselves in the school setting.- Introduces a practice model that calls for strengthened teacher-child connections.- Addresses, in separate chapters, the roles of the teacher, principal, and school-based clinician, providing guidance and effective strategies for each.- Demonstrates that interventions can be done effectively by existing school personnel.- Describes a project to facilitate teacher gathering of psycho-social history that can be used inform constructive curricular practice.- Poses compelling questions for policymakers, including concerns about the effect that the current focus on standards and test scores is having on the emotional tone of schools.- Includes a chapter addressing what we've learned from the recent tragic events of September 11th in New York City.