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Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, Second Edition
Empowering educators with strategies to create emotionally safe schools, this book explores powerful tools for fostering belonging, managing behaviors, and supporting student well-being.
Cultivate emotional safety and belonging for students and staff
Whether students feel stressed or supported has a profound impact on their success, sense of belonging, and behavior. Designed as a guide for education professionals and parents, this book explores emotional safety, its effect on learning, and practical strategies for fostering well-being. Discover how to shape students’ emotional responses by modeling healthy expression, building community, and nurturing self-awareness and self-management.
K–12 administrators and teachers can use this book to:
- Foster emotional safety and belonging in schools
- Address how stress and anxiety impact the learning environment
- Address students’ emotional needs and cultivate positive relationships in the classroom
- Strengthen classroom management with healthy approaches and practices
- Maintain authority while balancing structure with freedom
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“In Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, Jane Bluestein and Tom Hierck present an optimistic view of what the future can be. By focusing on proactive strategies, we can all work and learn in safe, accepting, and respectful schools.”
“Jane Bluestein and Tom Hierck examine what helps students thrive instead of merely survive and offer concrete proposals to help educators build safe classrooms and schools.”
“Creating Emotionally Safe Schools entrusts educators to recognize what is occurring in our environments and refrains from making a simple list of steps for safety.”
“Jane Bluestein and Tom Hierck have hit a home run with the second edition of Creating Emotionally Safe Schools. The book is packed with information, ideas, and strategies that are perfect for the issues today’s educators are facing in their work with children. This is a must-have book for those who teach and support students.”
