The Respectful School

• Learning effective intervention skills, • Modeling civility,

• Developing student peer leader programs,

• Working with student victims and their parents,

• Creating comprehensive antiharassment polices,

• Confronting perpetrators and their crimes, and

• Responding to the effects of terrorist acts and related prejudice.

Throughout the book, Wessler and Preble urge us to remember that we need to nurture the courage and compassion of young people to create supportive learning communities. Only then can students and educators join in speaking out for a respectful school, where tolerance and civility overcome the language of hate.