School Tool / Healing Practices

Julie Causton

Kate MacLeod

Building a Positive and Supportive Classroom

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Social-emotional learning Classroom Management

It's easy to say you're going to be better about using supportive discipline, but integrating it into your daily practice can be another matter. This quick reference guide by ASCD authors Causton and MacLeod can help. Designed to be a handy, easily digestible classroom or PD tool—it's a laminated, 3-panel foldout—the QRG includes tips and strategies to help educators develop conscious communication, mindful reflection, and self-care—all with the aim of transforming students' school experiences and decreasing challenging behaviors. It can be used for self-study, discussions with colleagues, and even as a go-to, in-the-moment resource. Little by little, you'll be taking part in the authors' mission to transform schools into healing, loving places where learning and acceptance can occur. (See their related story on p. 20.)

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Julie Causton is a bestselling author, inspiring speaker, and inclusive education advocate. The founder and CEO of Inclusive Schooling, she is a former tenured professor in the Department of Teaching and Leadership at Syracuse University, where she headed the Inclusive Elementary Education Program.

A former elementary, middle, and high school special education teacher, she has conducted presentations focusing on engaging ways to educate all students within the context of general education that have inspired and uplifted educators and families throughout the United States and helped them learn the most cutting-edge inclusive practices. Julie is the author of a dozen books about inclusive education and has published articles in over 30 educational research and practitioner journals.

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Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.