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Implementation
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Billboard created by Tara Beckly
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- The school is publicly declared a violence-free zone by the principal.
The school then appoints a TAKE TEN sponsor, a member of the staff
at the school, to coordinate TAKE TEN activities and assist in implementing
TAKE TEN into the social climate of the school.
- In the public school system, teachers choose children - TAKE TEN ambassadors - to communicate
the TAKE TEN message to their classmates and share learned skills.
- The TAKE TEN volunteers work with children on a weekly basis to
help them create projects and find creative methods to communicate
the message of nonviolence to their classmates. The volunteers also
work directly with students in their classrooms, when invited to do
so.
"In early childhood, aggressive and disruptive
classroom behavior contributes to poor school achievement and poor peer relations. In addition to academic
failure contributing to later antisocial behavior, it now seems that early antisocial behavior
and aggressive behavior patterns learned at home and elsewhere also may interfere with
school learning and with the development of positive peer relations in the school context."
~ American Psychological Association |
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