Thursday, December 20, 2012

One response to the tragedy of last Friday is for educators to make certain every student has at least one adult in the school they would come to with a personal problem. First, I ask school leaders to make up a list of students and to circulate that list to every adult in the school, asking them to put a check mark next to the name of any student with whom they have a personal relationship such that the student would come to them with a personal problem. Then I ask school leaders to make up a list of all adults working in the school and pass it among the students, asking them to place a check mark next to the name of those people who they consider they have a relationship with such that they would come to them with a personal problem. Any students who do not have a check mark next to their name on the first list or who do not check in names on the second list I ask educators to pair them up with a volunteer adult in the school who will meet with them one on one once a week.

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