1. ENCOURAGING POSITIVE AND RESPECTFUL CLASSROOM/SCHOOL CLIMATES

Skill building, program consultation, and facilitated dialogue for students, staff, and parents, including:

• Conflict resolution and problem-solving skills
• Building empathy and respect (formerly the KLEAR program)
• Bullying awareness and prevention
• Gang awareness and prevention
• Classroom management and positive discipline strategies
• Diversity and differences

• Peer Helping
• Peer Mediation
• Bridges to Safety: Character Education Lessons
• Freshman Transition
• Student leadership development
• Peer-to-Peer fishbowl dialogues

• Parent Education Workshops
• Enhancing active parent involvement and engagement
• Parent Leadership Development
• Building authentic school-parent partnerships

• Support in running more effective meetings including school site council, student study teams, staff, special committee, and parent meetings (including ELAC)
• Design and facilitation of group meetings focused on: strategic planning, team building, developing shared goals and visions, etc.
• Design of processes to engage staff, parents, and students in shared decision-making
• Dialogue and community building between school members and the larger community
• Mediation of workplace conflicts including issues like different work styles, shared work space, cultural issues, differing expectations, rumors, and gossip, between: teachers, staff members, and parents

*For more information about any of these services or our fees, please contact program staff. We recognize that schools are often on tight budgets so we've prepared a funding resource guide to help assist schools in identifying possible sources of funding.