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Role Group Strategies:
Teachers
Develop learning communities that promote physical, social, and emotional safety.
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An Ounce of Prevention
George Lucas Educational Foundation
http://www.glef.org/php/article.php?id=Art_667
At Brooklyn's P.S. 15, also known as Patrick Daly Elementary School, educators make a comprehensive effort to give kids the tools they need to become emotionally intelligent individuals able to move away from feelings and responses that prevent them from getting along with others, solving disputes peacefully, and concentrating on schoolwork. This article describes the school’s experience using the curriculum of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), an initiative of Educators for Social Responsibility.
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Resolving Conflict Creatively Program
http://www.esrnational.org/about-rccp.html
The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program is a research-based school program that aims to prevent violence and create caring learning communities by developing students' social and emotion learning. This site describes the aims of the program, its specific components, such as professional development for teachers and peer mediation, and results of program evaluations.
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Report from the National Summit on School Design
American Architectural Foundation and Knowledge Works Foundation
http://www.edfacilities.org/pubs/nationalsummit.pdf
In October 2005, the National Summit on School Design brought together a variety of education stakeholders, including teachers, parents, administrators, and architects. Together they developed eight recommendations for school design excellence, including making healthy comfortable flexible learning spaces. For each recommendation, the authors of the report include examples of model schools and a list of relevant online resources.
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Efforts to Support Social and Emotional Learning
http://www.glef.org/php/article.php?id=Art_685
Even if a school does not have a formal program to support social and emotional learning for students, this resource provides tips for teachers to create emotionally intelligent classrooms and student-centered resources and activities to support classroom efforts.
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Healthy School Environment Web Pages
United States Environmental Protection Agency
http://cfpub.epa.gov/schools/index.cfm
The Healthy School Environments Web pages are intended to serve as a gateway to online resources to help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health issues in schools. Major categories with resources in the directory include: Chemical Use & Management; Design, Construction and Renovation; Energy Efficiency; Ventilation; Environmental Education; Facility Operations and Maintenance; Indoor Environmental Quality; Legislation and Regulation; Outdoor Air Pollution; Portable Classrooms; Safety/Preparedness; Waste; Waste Reduction; and Water.
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NASBE Checklist for Ensuring Healthy Schools
National Association of School Boards of Education
http://nasbe.org/HealthySchools/Health_Policies.html
This site provides a sample of five general health related school policies that can effectively promote a fit, healthy school environment where students are ready to learn. The resource speaks to the role that districts and schools, school leadership, teachers, local policymakers, community members and parents can all play in helping ensure healthy school environments.
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Teachers
Help create a school-wide assessment strategy for the physical environment (air quality, lighting, thermal comfort, noise hazards, traffic patterns, etc.) as well as the social and emotional environment of the school.
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Healthy School Environment Assessment Tool
Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/schools/healthyseat/basicinformation.htm
Healthy SEAT is a self-assessment tool, which districts can customize and use to monitor the environmental conditions of their schools.
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Initial School Self-Evaluation Instrument
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.ncrel.org/csri/respub/initial.pdf
This self-evaluation instrument is designed for use by teachers, administrators, school board members, students, and community representatives. It allows users to evaluate their schools in four areas: learning and teaching, governance and management, school improvement and professional development, and parent and community involvement. The teaching and learning section includes questions on resources and materials and technology integration.
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Healthy School Environment Web Pages
United States Environmental Protection Agency
http://cfpub.epa.gov/schools/index.cfm
The Healthy School Environments Web pages are intended to serve as a gateway to online resources to help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health issues in schools. Major categories with resources in the directory include: Chemical Use & Management; Design, Construction and Renovation; Energy Efficiency; Ventilation; Environmental Education; Facility Operations and Maintenance; Indoor Environmental Quality; Legislation and Regulation; Outdoor Air Pollution; Portable Classrooms; Safety/Preparedness; Waste; Waste Reduction; and Water.
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