School Practice

This is a selection of readings on this site relating to aspects of school practice.

 One day in the life of an Inner-city School-based Child and Youth Care Worker
     Shelley Chrest
Outdoor education and troubled youth
     Dene S. Berman and Jennifer Davis-Berman
Field Lane Ragged School
     C. Dickens
How to teach the unteachable
     Joseph Ciaccio
Ripples and Rumbles: Towards peaceable school communities
     Valerie Dovey
Basic education and skills training
    Cape Youth Care, Cape Town
Bullied to death
     From Jump Magazine
Moving beyond good intentions in schools
     Gail Russell Chaddock
Child and youth care work in a school undergoing complex language and cultural adjustment in South Africa
     Rosa Nightingale
School readiness
      EJ (ERIC journal
Academic strategies to build resilience  
     Theodore Pikes, Brenda Burrell, and Connie Holliday  
The tools of encouragement
     Timothy Evans
Mental health – at school, at home
     Cindy Long, John Page, Beth Hail, Tifffany Davis, and Len Mitchell
Preventing truancy
     Charles Walls, ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Classroom management
     Gene Van Tassell
We don't need no thought control
     David Perks
Ways of knowing: Fostering resilience
     Jerri Simms Shepard
Conflict in schools: Win-win solutions
     Mary M Addison and Dolores A. Westmoreland
The school as a hub: Best practice model
     Rick Kelly
Soda and junk food machines
     Susan Krouskop
Giving children a voice through poetry
     Karenlee Clarke Alexander and Linda Shaw-Benson
Hobbs and spitting from windmills
     Rick Kelly
School to work transitions
     Cheryl Meredith Lowry
Child and youth work in educational settings
     Carey Denholm
Safe and caring schools
     Joan Jeary
Countering verbal abuse
     Arnold P. Goldstein
Community schools in action
     Joy G. Dryfoos
Dealing with violence and aggression
     Mary K. Fitzsimmons
Monitors as supports
     Sandra L. Christenson, Christine M. Hurley, Julie A. Hirsch, Melissa Kau, David Evelo and Willa Bates
Supporting LBGTQ students
     Michael Bochenek
Alternative ways
     Isabel Abrams
Working with aggressive students
     Eleanor Guetzloe
Antidote for zero tolerance
     Conrad D. Farner
Teaching conflict resolution
     U.S. Department of Education.
Pathways to courage
     Steve Van Bockern, Laurie Wenger, and Julie Ashworth
Alternative programs?
     Richard Sagor
Community schools
    Mary M. Harris and John H. Hoover
Out-of-school curriculum
     Jean Pease
Improving relationships
     Mary Beth Hewitt
Waging peace
     Linda Lantieri
It doesn’t look like a school ...
     Carol Weiss Rubel, M.S.

Touching Students
  
Deadly violence replaces scuffles at schools
The teacher is the curriculum
    
New ways with education
    
A school without rules
    
Don't turn teachers into cops
    
A teacher changing inner city lives
    
Do schools fail gay and lesbian youth
    
Constable goes to school
    
Gaining respect in the classroom

Teen peer mediators sharpen skills
    
Challenges and questions facing the development of Child and Youth Care Work in Canadian educational settings
    Carey Denholm
Effective partnerships between teacher and child and youth care worker
    Kathi Hughes and Vivian Lougheed
School-based field placements: A Montreal Perspective
     Elena Kruger  
Learning about myself: First experiences in school-based child and youth care
    Roger Pylypa,
On Being Accountable in Schools: Strategies for Child and Youth Care practitioner
    Andrew Jarrett