Preventing School Violence

Marjorie S. Schieringhas devoted her career as an educator to developing teacher’s and learner’s comprehension of self- efficacy through experiential learning, which focuses on conversing “with” self- and others, by addressing her Model for Academic and Social Cognition She continually addresses sharing the Cognitive Collective (Reciprocal Thinking and Feelings) to establish and maintain a viable, safe, positive and congenial classroom community where there is teaching of thinking.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART ONE: The Start: The Foundation for Teaching Civility: Discussion-based InstructionThen and Now: School Violence and CivilityPresent-Day Realities: School Violence and Teaching CivilityYou Knowing You + Beliefs, Values, Thinking and FeelingsUnpolluting the Mind + A Negative Versus Positive Teaching Style One RuleSome Things Don’t Change: What Everyone NeedsSaving the SchoolsDignity for All + A Teaching and Learning ModelTalking “At” or “To” when “With” is Needed: Teaching Civility Presenter GuidelinesPART TWO: The Continuance: The“How-To”of Teaching Civility with ActivitiesTeaching Civility Activities: Getting Acquainted, Role-play and Heart Making Connections: Building Classroom Community: Matt and Maddy SchieringTeaching Civility Today: The Way It Is Persons of Good CharacterCauses of School Misbehavior/Violence/AggressionStress Stands AloneYou Are EnoughPART THREE: The Ongoing and Closing 17. Awareness, Acceptance, and Acknowledging Character and Civility: Author’s Interview Drew Bogner, Ph.D.18. Within an Era of Bullying: Our Building a Culture of Acceptance Amy Meyers, Ph. D.19. Think, Say and Do: Three ContributionsTim Ryley, Angela Sullivan, Ed.D., Mariola Krol20. Teaching What We’ve Learned

In Preventing School Violence, Dr. Schiering invites you to enter her classroom, where the continuity between teaching and learning, between school and home, between character and inspiring knowledge are apparent. In these pages, you will find a road-map to creating a classroom as a safe, caring, and respectful community, and as a foundation for an amiable and healthy society.