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Friendly Schools Plus Evidence for Practice:: Whole-School Strategies to Enhance Students' Social Skills and Reduce Bullying in Schools

AUTHOR Erceg, Erin; Thompson, Shane; Cross, Donna
PUBLISHER Solution Tree (07/25/2014)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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The Friendly Schools Plus series by Donna Cross, Shane Thompson, and Erin Erceg uses an evidence-based, whole-school approach to reduce bullying and to foster a supportive school culture. This approach recognizes that all aspects of students' school life influence their academic performance and health. The seven Friendly Schools Plus resources provide educators with tools to create effective programs that support students academically and socially, help students practice healthy interpersonal behaviors in school and online, and encourage parental and stakeholder school involvement. They also provide strategies to support bullied students, improve student behavior, and emphasize positive relationships between students and staff to sustain caring school cultures.
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ISBN-13: 9781936763184
ISBN-10: 1936763184
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Product Dimensions: 8.46 x 0.61 x 11.10 inches
Weight: 1.52 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Ikids
Country of Origin: US
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Education | Administration - General
Dewey Decimal: 371.7
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The Friendly Schools Plus series by Donna Cross, Shane Thompson, and Erin Erceg uses an evidence-based, whole-school approach to reduce bullying and to foster a supportive school culture. This approach recognizes that all aspects of students' school life influence their academic performance and health. The seven Friendly Schools Plus resources provide educators with tools to create effective programs that support students academically and socially, help students practice healthy interpersonal behaviors in school and online, and encourage parental and stakeholder school involvement. They also provide strategies to support bullied students, improve student behavior, and emphasize positive relationships between students and staff to sustain caring school cultures.
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Author: Erceg, Erin
Erin Erceg is currently working as the lead trainer for the Friendly Schools Plus initiative with Hawker Brownlow Professional Learning Solutions. Having spent twelve years with the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, Erin's most significant roles relate to her work on research around aggression and bullying among young people. Other areas of research in which Erin has been involved include capacity building for interventions in schools, secondary school transition factors, cyberbullying and its effects, reducing the effects of bullying among Aboriginal children, children's connectedness factors and mental health, building school capacity to engage parents and increase their connectedness to the whole school environment, and self-esteem and resilience of young people.

Previous to this work Erin has worked as a teacher in both primary and secondary school classes for thirteen years, as a development officer for rural health and wellbei

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