Brenda LeTendre & Richard Lipka, both at Pittsburg State University

Here's practical help for creating a physically and emotionally safe environment where all students can learn. This important new guide shows how we must go beyond "quick fix" measures and dig deep to find the underlying causes of violent and abusive behaviors in order to craft effective solutions to reduce violence within the schools.

With the help provided in this book, educators, concerned parents, or community members can find ways to reduce the probability of violence occurring in the school . . . reduce the likelihood that a criminal act of violence will happen in your school . . . and reduce the level of everyday violence that currently takes place in your school.

This comprehensive book ...

• gives you a process for thinking through violence issues at your school
• of each step through two case studies, one from a middle school and another from a high school
• teaches you to use root cause analysis to identify the causes of violence in your school
• demonstrates the power of systems thinking in combating violence within your school
• guides you in developing an action plan tailored to your school that decreases the level of every-day violence and reduces the possibility of criminal acts of violence occurring

2003 Available in April 216pp est. Paperbound ISBN 1-929024-62-2 Order #5020 $14.95

Brenda G. LeTendre and Richard P. Lipka

What questions come up in your mind throughout the course of a school day ... a week ... a month ... the year? Do they focus on the new math program? Reducing the number of fights in the cafeteria? Facing the critics who want to dismantle your service learning curriculum? No matter what questions you have, now you can develop the skills for collecting meaningful data ... analyzing and interpreting that data ... and making the right decisions based on their findings. This new guide shows you how! Here, through numerous examples, you see how you can use the techniques of program evaluation to find answers to your questions - from the simplest to the most perplexing. This guide actually shows you how to capture time by using information to your advantage to work more effectively and efficiently. It shows you how to use program evaluation techniques to make sure that you select solutions that truly solve your problems, no matter what your role in improving teaching and schools.

2000 Paperbound 320pp ISBN 1-929024-08-8 (K-6) Order #2011 $14.95

Brenda Guenther LeTendre and Richard P. Lipka

Now you can answer both the simple and complex questions that are vital to improving any middle school. Through numerous examples, you see how individual teachers, teams of teachers, and full faculties can collect, analyze, and interpret data to create classrooms and schools where students succeed.

1999 Paperbound 356pp ISBN 0-926842-94-3 (5-9) Order #2010 $14.95

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