R&L Education
Pages: 154
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-61048-809-9 • Hardback • May 2012 • $83.00 • (£64.00)
978-1-61048-810-5 • Paperback • May 2012 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-61048-811-2 • eBook • May 2012 • $36.00 • (£30.00)
Sheri Werner is the co-founder of a K-8th grade school where she developed and successfully implemented a bullying prevention program for over fifteen years. An educator for the past twenty-two years, Ms. Werner holds BA, MS and PPS degrees. She conducts lectures and workshops and has appeared on television and radio interviews as an expert on bullying prevention and intervention.
Bullying is not only a hot topic, but a national problem that demands intelligent attention, prevention programs, and sustainable solutions. Sheri Werner’s In Safe Hands is a comprehensive road map to such solutions. Do-it-yourself books are sometimes boring, simplistic, or both. In Safe Schools is an exceptional combination of sensitive and engaging stories, comprehensive and practical activities, but most importantly—as its subtitle states—“compassion for all.”
— Paul Cummins Ph.D, educator; co-founder of the Crossroads School and the New Roads School in Santa Monica, California; founder of New Visions Foundation; author of several books on education and poetry
A practical and impressive resource for bullying prevention! Bullying—and other forms of excluding—were at the heart of the unresolved problems teaching and parenting presented me with. Thanks to Sheri Werner, teachers like me have her work to help us. Maybe parents too!
— Deborah Meier, MacArthur Award-winning founder of the Central Park East Schools in New York and the Mission Hill School in Boston
In the blinding blizzard of opinion and commentary on bullying, at last a guide for parents and educators grounded in classroom reality and simple sanity. In Safe Hands is a space of calm in the storm, filled with practical suggestions that can be implemented immediately. Sheri Werner draws on years of experience as a mother and an educator to illustrate how to create safe and productive learning environments, locating this necessary work in an educational, and not a criminal justice, framework. This is a book for anyone who works with children today.
— William Ayers, educational theorist, author, and distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago