These interventions have the greatest potential to not only establish a positive school climate, but to divert mildly at-risk students from antisocial behaviors that can become patterns that lead to negative school outcomes.
Schools can play an important role in preventing antisocial behavior.
School-wide strategies include teaching both students and staff to implement rules and policies that make a classroom or a school operate effectively. Strategies also may include targeting behavior in halls, lunchrooms, and school buses, and teaching conflict resolution, emotional literacy, and anger management skills to all students. Newman Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, demonstrates how a proactive, school-wide disciplinary program and well trained teachers can work effectively with students whom teachers often find to be behaviorally challenging. The program employs a positive, proactive approach to school discipline marked by clear expectations and concrete rewards. In a local elementary school in Tampa, Florida, each Monday begins with school-wide instruction on social competency.