Keeping It Positive [Paperback]

Transform the hostile nature and flavor of your school into an environment that promotes compassion, respect, self-motivation, peace, and safety.

Keeping It Positive is a comprehensive approach to deterring the societal ills that so often plague our schools. It provides methods and techniques that challenge common issues and dilemmas from a lively, fun, interactive, and student-centered prospective. Stimulate your students' consciousness through the creative activities and introspective rhetoric contained in this manual.

This book includes:

- Anti-Bullying Programs

- Over 300 Thoughts of the Day

- Conflict Deterrent Strategies

- Behavior Modification Techniques

- Self-Esteem Enhancement Resources

- Climate Control Activities

- Academic Enhancing Strategies

- Peer Mentoring Activities

- Citizenship Promotion Tactics

- Anti-Violence Materials

- Peer Pressure Resistance Activities

- Substance Prevention Resources

- Techniques for Students at Risk

- Motivational Tools

- Confidence Boosting Resources

- Physical Altercation Management

About the Author

Olga Van Beverhoudt is a retired educator from the Miami-Dade County Public School system in Miami, Florida, where she worked as a teacher, counselor, and assistant principal. She holds a B.A. degree in Elementary Education from the University of South Florida; an M.A. degree in Guidance and Counseling from Clark-Atlanta University; and an Educational Specialist degree in Educational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University. She is now an active member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. in which she volunteers her service to projects promoting the enhancement of youth and the quality of life for the elderly.

During her 30-year tenure within the public school sector, Van Beverhoudt was inspired by thel<