Creating Peaceful Classrooms

EEPING schools safe while preserving productive learning environments is an increasing concern for educators everywhere. Teachers and administrators are seeking strategies that will help students learn to act respectfully and responsibly. Researchers who are also teachers, administrators, and specialists in Michigan, Minnesota, and Oregon are documenting how the constitutional language of rights and responsibilities, incOlporated into a democratic management framework called Judicious Discipline, can support equitable, respectful, and safe classroom environments. Recent studies have focused on incorporating the language of citizenship rights and responsibilities into class meetings to teach