Description

School staff and students have a right to healthy, "non-toxic" learning environment.

By choosing to use No Putdowns in your school or classroom, you are taking control. No Putdowns teaches youth different ways to respond each step of the way, replacing angry reactions with clear communication, anger management and conflict resoluation skills. With No Putdowns you are creating your own environmental protection agency.

When students have completed the core set of No Putdowns lessons, they will be able to:

Recognize and understand the effects of putdowns on themselves and others
Recognize that putdowns are used for a variety of reasons
Develop strategies to reduce their own use of putdowns
Recognize and use alternative communication skills
Develop peaceful, nonabusive strategies to deal with putdowns and other conflict situations
Demonstrate strategies for calming down
List attributes, acheivements, abilities of which they are proud
Recognize that they have choices about how to respond in any situation
Recognize and express appreciation, encouragement, or compliments
Demonstrate increased levels of respect in youth-youth and youth-adult interactions