ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART ONE: The Start: The Foundation for Teaching Civility: Discussion-based InstructionThen and Now: School Violence and CivilityPresent-Day Realities: School Violence and Teaching CivilityYou Knowing You + Beliefs, Values, Thinking and FeelingsUnpolluting the Mind + A Negative Versus Positive Teaching Style One RuleSome Things Don’t Change: What Everyone NeedsSaving the SchoolsDignity for All + A Teaching and Learning ModelTalking “At” or “To” when “With” is Needed: Teaching Civility Presenter GuidelinesPART TWO: The Continuance: The“How-To”of Teaching Civility with ActivitiesTeaching Civility Activities: Getting Acquainted, Role-play and Heart Making Connections: Building Classroom Community: Matt and Maddy SchieringTeaching Civility Today: The Way It Is Persons of Good CharacterCauses of School Misbehavior/Violence/AggressionStress Stands AloneYou Are EnoughPART THREE: The Ongoing and Closing 17. Awareness, Acceptance, and Acknowledging Character and Civility: Author’s Interview Drew Bogner, Ph.D.18. Within an Era of Bullying: Our Building a Culture of Acceptance Amy Meyers, Ph. D.19. Think, Say and Do: Three ContributionsTim Ryley, Angela Sullivan, Ed.D., Mariola Krol20. Teaching What We’ve Learned

In Preventing School Violence, Dr. Schiering invites you to enter her classroom, where the continuity between teaching and learning, between school and home, between character and inspiring knowledge are apparent. In these pages, you will find a road-map to creating a classroom as a safe, caring, and respectful community, and as a foundation for an amiable and healthy society.