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Bullying Prevention Resource Books
Bully B.E.A.N.S.
By Julia Cook
Most children are unprepared for how to handle it when bullying happens to them or someone they know. Bully B.E.A.N.S helps children identify bullying and offers clear and impactful action strategies for both targets and bystanders.
Bullying Today: Bullet Points and Best Practices
By Justin W. Patchin and Sameer Hinduja
Before bullying surfaces in your school, you need to be ready. This book is organized so you can find the answers you need to make meaningful changes in the way you prevent and respond to bullying.
Schools Where Everyone Belongs
By Stan Davis
This new edition is packed with practical guidelines and proven strategies for implementing a whole-school approach for reducing bullying. The author draws on theory and research, as well as over two decades of experience as a school counselor and consultant to provide educators with his creative ideas and successful techniques.
Digital Safety Resource Books
Disconnected: How to Protect Your Kids from the Harmful Effects of Device Dependency
By Tom Kersting
Based on the latest studies on the connection between screen time and neuroplasticity, as well as the growing research on acquired ADHD and anxiety, Disconnected presents a better way to move forward. Kersting shares indispensable advice for parents on setting boundaries and engaging in concentration and mindfulness exercises.
Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World
By Mike Brooks and Jon Lasser
Mike Brooks and Jon Lasser, psychologists with extensive experience working with kids, parents, and teachers, combine cutting-edge research and expertise to create an engaging and helpful guide that emphasizes the importance of the parent-child relationship. They reject an “all or nothing” attitude towards technology, in favor of a balanced approach that neither idealizes nor demonizes the digital.
The Boogeyman Exists; And He’s In Your Child’s Back Pocket
By Jesse Weinberger
The discussion about digital safety needs to begin the very first time your child uses a tablet or a smartphone without mom or dad literally sitting right next to them. Children as young as 8 years old are regular consumers of pornography. Middle school students are going to prison as a result of felony sexting. Sexual predators are hanging out in the same games and apps where your children are. Get educated, today.
The Technology Tail: A Digital Footprint Story
By Julia Cook
A young girl has a frank conversation with her computer, who reveals knowing in detail about all of her online activities. The book concludes with concrete five rules for safe online behavior.
Emergency Operation Resource Books
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Personal Preparedness Resource Books
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence The Gift of Fear
By Gavin de Becker
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the nation's leading expert on violent behavior, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger—before it's too late. Learn to spot the danger signals others miss. It might just save your life.
School Climate Resource Books
Lockdown Drills: Connecting Research and Best Practices for School Administrators, Teachers, and Parents
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A comprehensive resource on what lockdown drills are, why they are necessary, and how best to conduct them. The first book to offer a comprehensive examination of lockdown drills in K–12 schools, Lockdown Drills balances research findings with practical applications and implications.
The Power of Our Words
By Paula Denton, Ed.D.
Learn how teachers can use language—words, tone, and pace—to increase student engagement, build a positive classroom community, and more effectively manage behavior.
Social-Emotional Learning Resource Books
99 Non-Lame Journaling Prompts for Teens: Journal with Writing Prompts for Teenage Girls and Boys, A Book for Self Discovery and Self Expression, Fun Daily Prompt Notebook
By Mindful Magic Journals
This journal is packed with fun, thought-provoking, and sometimes downright weird prompts. Get ready to write about yourself, your life, the past, the future, and plenty of interesting hypothetical scenarios.
Handbook of Mindfulness in Education: Integrating theory and research into practice
By Kimberly Schonert-Reichl and Robert Roeser
This handbook summarizes the state of the science and describes current and emerging applications and challenges throughout the field. Chapters discuss mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy programs that have produced positive student outcomes, including stress relief, self-care, and improved classroom and institutional engagement.
Happy Teachers Change the World: A guide for cultivating mindfulness in education
By Thich Nhat Hahn and Katherine Weare
The first official, authoritative manual of the Thich Nhat Hanh/Plum Village approach to mindfulness in education. Spanning the whole range of schools and grade levels, from preschool through higher education, these techniques are grounded in the everyday world of schools, colleges, and universities.
Divergent 10th Anniversary Edition (Divergent Series, 1)
By Nicolas Delort
Beatrice Prior's society is divided into five factions—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice must choose between staying with her Abnegation family and transferring factions. Her choice will shock her community and herself.
Nurturing Students’ Character: Everyday teaching activities for social-emotional learning
By Jeffrey S. Kress and Maurice Elias
An easy-to-use guide to incorporating social-emotional and character development (SECD) into your teaching practice. The links are clear―elementary and middle school students have better odds of academic success if you nurture their social and emotional skills.
Self-Compassion: Stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind
By Kristin Neff
More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing ourselves and transforming our communities through mindfulness
By Rhonda V. Magee
This book profoundly shows that in order to have the difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential. Through the practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--we increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered.
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A proven way to accept yourself, build inner-strength, and thrive
By Kristen Neff and Christopher Germer
Are you kinder to others than you are to yourself? More than a thousand research studies show the benefits of being a supportive friend to yourself, especially in times of need. This science-based workbook offers a step-by-step approach to breaking free of harsh self-judgments and impossible standards in order to cultivate emotional well-being.
We Are Okay
By Nina LaCour
An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love.
Teacher (for kids) Resource Books
I'M NOT Scared, I'M Prepared!
By Julia Cook
I’M NOT Scared... I’M Prepared! will enhance the concepts taught by the ALICE Training Institute and make them applicable to children of all ages in a non-fearful way. By using this book, children can develop a better understanding of what needs to be done if they ever encounter a "dangerous someone."
The Ant Hill Disaster
By Julia Cook
The Ant Hill Disaster thoughtfully addresses fears associated with both natural and man-caused disasters. It models effective parenting and teaching responses.
The Technology Tail: A Digital Footprint Story
By Julia Cook
A young girl has a frank conversation with her computer, who reveals knowing in detail about all of her online activities. The book concludes with concrete five rules for safe online behavior.
What to Do When the News Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Understanding Current Events (What-to-Do Guides for Kids)
By Jacqueline B. Toner
This latest installment in the bestselling What To Do series tackles children’s feelings of anxiety around current events and what is portrayed in the news. Scary news is an inevitable part of life. This book can support and guide efforts to help scary news seem a bit more manageable for young people.
Threat Assessment Resource Books
Comprehensive School Threat Assessment GuidelinesThe Technology Tail: A Digital Footprint Story
By Dewey Cornell
Presenting the only K-12 school threat assessment model supported by controlled studies, this new manual is a sequel to the author's original manual, Guidelines for Responding to Student Threats of Violence.
Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
By Mark Follman
Through meticulous reporting and panoramic storytelling, award-winning journalist Mark Follman chronicles the decades-long search for identifiable profiles of mass shooters and brings readers inside a groundbreaking method for preventing devastating attacks. The emerging field of behavioral threat assessment, with its synergy of mental health and law enforcement expertise, focuses on circumstances and behaviors leading up to planned acts of violence—warning signs that offer a chance for constructive intervention before it's too late.