“Violence and The School Leader" Shifting Culture with Our Next Generations © 2013 Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M. … a Building Strength Webinar …

“Violence and The School Leader"Shifting Culture with Our Next Generations

© 2013 Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M.

… a Building Strength Webinar …

Violence is a perpetual problem and a global one.

Murder was front & center across the States again, last December after the Connecticut shooting of 26

elementary school children, teachers, and their principal, along with the shooter’s suicide after killing his own mother

What can I do, you might ask?

"Violence and The School Leader"

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© 2013 Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M. … a Building Strength Webinar …

1st - Personal Credo Questions

• Why are you in education ?

• What does the term ‘non-violent’ mean to you personally?

• Do you believe education encompasses mind, body AND heart/spirit of those in its embrace?




2nd – School Matters & Queries• Consider if your school security should be armed or not?• School campus: Gun-Free, or No?• What School Policies overtly addresses by active discussions and living PEACE• Curricula training and utilizing by direct and daily application of • Best Practices on How to Best Pay Attention & Listen to the Student and each Staffer• Enhanced and Integrated School Policy that incorporates peace in all arenas• Peace-Prompting Homework Policy?• Electronics-Free Nights, Days• Home entertainment choices: lists, activities/games that focus on peaceful collaborations,

getting-along themes• Overt Parent+Teacher co-trainings on how to meet the mental, emotional, whole child needs of

students (every community has experts in their fields, some are most likely on a school’s staff in your system)

• School Curricula, Small Shifts such as “Peace Projects Policy”• Being & Modelling PEACE• Bring Peacefulness into every school conversation• Consider a Peace Project Every Year, Quarter, Semester, Month?• Pre and Post-Peace Project & Curricula: Speakers, ensure the students have studied the topic(s)

addressed, following-up with actual implementation in school life of the Speakers’ info• Your Guest Speakers Policy: address local, regional, countrywide, and international

‘Peace Topics’ with experts experienced in the practical application of Being Pro-Youth by Being Pro-Peace & Peaceful



……………………………© 2013 Linda Lee Ratto, Ed.M.

… a Building Strength Webinar …

Youth Ambassadors

Keeping the Conversation about Non-Violent Choices ALIVE GLOBALLY

"Violence and The School Leader" ~ a Building Strength Webinar ~


Keeping the Conversation & Questioning Going…

My ‘asking questions’ methods customize my work with individuals, and small or large professional groups… for example:

What in your home supports and promotes violent behaviour?

What about your discipline approaches at home or professionally: are they punitive, wellness/growth promoting, and evolutional?

What in your schools’ consequence policies supports violence?

Is there a system-wide, us/them approach that promotes peaceful feelings about staff, students and others?

What comprises nonviolent education for you, your family, and your school?



Summation

How can you start a

Peace Project in Your Community ?


Further co-learning & next pathway work

for you and/or your colleagues:

Read the full Linda Lee Ratto Article:

“Violence & the School Leader”

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