By Guest Blogger Erin O’Malley, dean of student services at Bishop O’Connell High School, Arlington, Virginia Listen to the Students...
Tag: Don’t Laugh at Me
Giving Students a Voice: Peer Mediation Comes to PVHS!
With the dramatic increase in social media use by teenagers, school administrators and counselors sometimes fill their days resolving student...
Restorative Practices
Operation Respect’s mission of “creating safe, compassionate environments for children and youth” has led us down many pedagogical roads because...
Operation Respect in Palestine
Sometimes you have meetings to set up other meetings. Sometimes you have meetings that change everything. In January, through an...
Speaking the Same Language on Positive School Climate and Culture
I’m known as one of those people who lives, breathes, eats, and sleeps her work. If you’re a friend of...
Operation Respect Professional Development Services
Our last two blogposts have talked about school climate and culture and staying ready for negative incidents. Our Don’t Laugh...
If U stay ready …You ain’t got to get ready – Part 2
Last week I wrote a blog post about the importance of building a positive school culture and climate as a...
If U stay ready….You ain’t got to get ready – Part 1
One of the pastors at my church recently used this hook from a rap song by the artist Suga Free...
Thank you, CASEL!
This week we would like to express our deep appreciation for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL),...
An Important New Resource Places Equity Front and Center of Education Policy and Practice
Confession: I have a soft spot for reports on educational equity that prominently place a photo of happy, confident elementary-school...
Changing the World is a Contact Sport
This is so cool!! I had the real privilege of attending a conference this week for Special Olympics Unified Champion...
Family Quilt
Think about it: Quilting squares are an ideal framework for exploring the diversity of one’s family and the diversity of...