Here are content-rich Web sites that can help promote a positive, welcoming school climate. The Center for the Prevention of School Violence offers information, program assistance, and research on school violence prevention. Links to the center's publications provide current information on center activities. Principal Alpha Quincy stresses the importance of implementing school policies that teach students that violence is wrong by banning corporal punishment and insisting that everyone, both teachers and students, find alternatives to physical force to work out disagreements. Go to the Table of Contents to find essays by Thomas Gordon, Ashley Montagu, and Albert Einstein.
Participants establish goals and form teams in which each person has a role to play.
The School Development Program was founded with the belief that educators' knowledge of children's personal, social, and moral development, along with good communication between educators and families, will lead to high achievement. This site contains a model of the program and summarizes results at participating schools.