Targeted Resources
Recommendation 8—Safety,
Resilience, and Health
These online and print resources are organized to serve as catalysts for discussion and professional collaboration targeted to the topic of safety, resilience, and health.
Related Links
- 8 Strategies for Middle School Design, (Outside Source), August Battaglia and Robin Randall, American School Board Journal, Vol. 192, No. 10 (October 2005).
- A Lifeline for Troubled Students, Susan Black, American School Board Journal (December 2005).
- California Healthy Kids Resource Center, (Outside Source)
- California Healthy Kids Survey, California Department of Education.
- California Healthy Kids Survey results, (Outside Source)
- California Results-Based School Counseling and Student Support Guidelines (2007), (PDF; 873KB; 85pp.), California Department of Education.
- Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, (Outside Source). Provides valuable links to parent-friendly resources.
- Checklists for preparing for the pandemic flu. The checklist is designed for schools, child care agencies, and preschools.
- Committee for Children, (Outside Source) provides many resources on schoolwide anti-bullying programs and violence prevention strategies.
- Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH), (Outside Source). In 1988, the CDC established the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
- Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools, (Outside Source) is a summary report of research on violence prevention, intervention and crisis response in schools.
- Exploring Essential Components: Physical Activity, Nutrition, and the Young Adolescent, (Outside Source) —an advocacy presentation from the National Association of Middle schools, available as a PowerPoint presentation and as a MacroMedia Breeze audiovisual file.
- Examples of Caring Behavior, Original Taking Center Stage, 115-116.
- Food Distribution Program: FAQs for Schools/CN Commodity Programs, (Outside Source). This page provides a list of frequently asked questions about the Child Nutrition Commodity Programs and how they work.
- Getting Results: Developing Safe and Healthy Kids updates and fact sheets are available on the CDE Web.
- Getting Results: Update 2, Assessing the Effectiveness of Classroom-Based Prevention Programs, (PDF; 762 KB, 83pp), reports on the research evidence about the effectiveness of the most widely used classroom curricula in California and provides a discussion of the social influences model. Download any of the Getting Results studies from the CDE Web.
- Healthy Children Ready to Learn: Facilities Best Practices, California Department of Education.
- Health Framework for California Public Schools, (PDF; 2MB; 264pp.)
- Healthy and Supportive School Environments, California Department of Education.
- Internet safety poster, (PDF; Outside Source). The California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP Region IV) has created an Internet safety poster that is available free of charge. The 11”x17” poster says, “Are You Cyber Safe? The Internet is virtual, but the dangers are real.
- Middle and High School Counseling Web page.
- Nurturing Motivation, Effort, and Investment in Schoolwork, Original Taking Center Stage, 119-120.
- Parental Involvement in School Safety: What Every Parent Should Know; What Every Parent Should Say, (PDF; Outside Source)Center for the Prevention of School Violence.
- Physical Education Model Content Standards for California Public Schools (2006), (PDF; 2MB; 74pp.) California Department of Education.
- Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities, (PDF; Outside Source), U.S. Department of Education: Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, May 2003.
- Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, California Department of Education..
- Safe Schools provides training, resources and technical assistance to establish a school/community environment which is physically and emotionally safe, well disciplined, and conducive to learning.
- Safe Schools/Healthy Students Campaign, (Outside Source). This page provides details about the strategies of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services for complying with the president's initiatives to provide schools, students, and communities with safe and healthy schools.
- Safe Schools Planning Checklist - Violence Prevention. This checklist includes information that is intended to help schools identify elements and resources important in improving school safety and preventing campus violence.
- Safe Schools Planning - Violence Prevention provides information for safe schools planning, school safety issues, and prevention and intervention programs and strategies.
- SAMHSA Model Programs: Model Prevention Programs Supporting Academic Achievement, (Outside Source).
- School Attendance Improvement Handbook, (PDF; 1MB; 92pp.) provides strategies to improve school attendance.
- School Attendance Review Boards Handbook, (PDF; 30MB; 116pp.) includes required letters and Education Code sections.
- Student Success Teams, California Department of Education.
- The Role of Parents in Helping to Create Safe, Violence-Free Middle Schools, Original Taking Center Stage, Appendix 13-G.
- The School Personality, Original Taking Center Stage, 113-114.
Note: Taking Center Stage—Act II (TCSII) includes references and links to third party resources (outside links) that middle grades educators and stakeholders may find thought provoking and a catalyst for discussion and professional collaboration in their quest to improve their schools. Specific references or links by the California Department of Education in TCSII to third party resources, products, processes, or services, or the presence of trade names, trademarks, or other vendor identifiers, do not constitute assessment or imply endorsement by the Middle Grades Improvement Office or the California Department of Education (CDE).
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