EFNV K-8 Elementary Education Component
Resources for a Non-Violent Classroom

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Clark, Donna. Bullying Prevention Manual: The Voice of Success. CFISD Classroom Management Class, March 2005. Contact Donna Clark by email.

Charney, Ruth Sidney. Teaching Children to Care: Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth, K-8. Northeast Foundation for Children Revised, 2001. [Amazon] [Barnes & Noble]

Gibbs, Jean. Tribes, A New Way of Learning and Being Together [order from the publisher] [Amazon] [Barnes & Noble]

A “how to” book on how to organize your classroom socially to promote caring and understanding. Includes many individual lessons for a variety of age groups. Excellent resource for activities to start your year out.

Hart, Sara and Kindle Hodson,Victoria. The Compassionate Classroom [order from the publisher-CVNC] [Independent Publishers Group] [Amazon] [Barnes & Noble]

Focuses on developing quality relationships in the classroom. Has a significant list of activities to create a more compassionate classroom.

Kovalik, Susan J. Iti: the Model Integrated Thematic Instruction [Amazon] [Barnes & Noble]

There are some very good chapters in this book on life skills, brain compatibility, and a very good section on research that supports absence of threat being a key essential component of the learning environment.

Kriete, Roxann and Bechtel, Lynn. The Morning Meeting Book. Northeast Foundation for Children, 2002. [Amazon] [Barnes & Noble]

Rosenberg, Marshall B. Life-Enriching Education. PuddleDancer Press, 2005. [Independent Publishers Group] [Amazon] [Barnes & Noble]

Rosenberg, Marshall B. Teaching Children Compassionately. PuddleDancer Press, 2004. [Independent Publishers Group] [Amazon] [Barnes & Noble]

Websites

• Don't Laugh at Me
• The Responsive Classroom Bookstore
• Teaching Tolerance (magazine) for subscriptions phone +1 334-956-8200

—Vicki McMillan, school psychologist and counselor