Title: School Administrators: Are You Ready?
Source: Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Law Center
By: Maureen Costello
November 14, 2016
Key Points: This article delves into what administrators and teachers can do to help the school environment post-election. Its main ideas are: set the tone, take care of the wounded, double down on anti-bullying strategies, encourage courage, and be ready for crisis. All these will help create a safe and welcoming environment for all students. As the article states, no matter who won the election, there were going to be students upset with the results.
Intended Audience: Administrators and teachers.
Relevance: This is very important for the overall learning environment of our schools. When it comes down to it, we are educators. We need to make our schools a safe place to learn and grow. I think we can all use these tools to get back to teaching our students.
Christopher thank you for posting this! I was at a school the day after the election and students were crying and they were worried about the future. As you stated and the article states school needs to be a safe place for students. I also believe it is important for all students to be reminded of the distract policies around free speech, protests, and bullying. These are all things that students may loose sight of when emotions start to run high. To keep school safe these rules need to be remembered! Great article!
ReplyDeleteAfter the election we definitely need to be more proactive with all of our students. All of them need to feel safe! Not just some. We also need to be positive and be hopeful. Our demeanor is picked up by our students, so we need to be very positive, even if we are feeling not that so much. I agree that we need to remind our students what is right and wrong, and how to express their freedom of speech and protest correctly, not just walk out of class to get out of class. It needs to be for a reason, and it needs to be respectful.
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