Sentences with phrase «peaceable school»

The Peaceable School Schools need to pay attention — not reactively, but proactively — to developing youth's social and emotional competencies, that is, their ability to understand, manage, and express the social and emotional aspects of their lives in ways that enable them to learn, form relationships, solve everyday problems, and adapt to the complex demands of growing up.

This particular program is based on «Creating the Peaceable School» by Richard Bodine, Donna Crawford, and Fred Schrumpf (Research Press, Illinois, 1994).

If their opinions filter down to the classroom level, which Wendy Constantine, the district's Peaceable School coordinator, is hoping will happen, teachers will put a lot more focus on getting to know their young charges.

Poliner has consulted with public and independent schools in New England and across the U.S.; has been a teacher, educational organization director, and a faculty member for master's degree candidates in conflict resolution education and peaceable schools.

Mr. Breunlin implemented the Peaceable Schools Initiative, designed to personalize a high school environment with the two-fold goal of improving performance of non-traditional learners and reducing school violence; published studies have documented the efficacy of this program.

Not exact matches

Something of a counterculture western, this beguiling film pairs two of Hollywood's most watchable stars - Paul Newman and Robert Redford - as peaceable, old - school bandits trying to make it on the increasingly civilized frontier.