In Safe Hands

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, author of In Schools We Trust ; founder of NYC's Central Park East public schools in East Harlem and Boston's Mission Hill school; current senior scholar at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education; and board member of Coalition for Essential Schools 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