"The Responsive Classroom" Developed by the Northeast Foundation for Children (NEFC) site envisions schools as respectful learning communities where educators honor the social context of learning and use knowledge of students' development to inform all decisions. "The Responsive Classroom," with links to staff, archives and a resource store provides excellents materials for teachers.

Creating Learning Communities - Models, Resources and New Ways of Thinking About Teaching and Learning Book written by 30 people describing strategies and approaches for building schools as learning communities.

Building Bridges. Bringing people from different backgrounds together to address social and natural diversity issues through social learning, cross-cultural communication, participatory education, and ecopsychology to build safe, respectful, sustainable, and happy communities. Find links to books, workshops, videos, research and more.

Cooperation and competition. Excerpts from the writings of Alfie Kohn regarding cooperation, competition, and human nature.

Emotional Intelligence is the capacity to deal with one's emotions and interpersonal relationships, both a key to cognitive functioning and as important in adult success. Building community in a school helps promote emotional intelligence; strategies for increasing emotional intelligence can help build community. Emotional Intelligences in Schools. Article explores the importance of understanding emotional intelligence in learning. Here are links to sites on emotional intelligences.

Community building and positive behavioral supports. A Powerpoint presentation.

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice A center that works to help communities create schools that promote emotional well-being, effective instruction and safe learning. Site has many resources that focus on use of teams, collaboration, community building, and positive behavioral support in assisting children and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges.

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV). National center that links research, policy, and practice in efforts to reduce violence.

Multimodal Functional Behavioral Assessment This highly interactive, multimedia site offers downloadable assessment forms, a Power Point training presentation and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs), and more.

Promising Practices. Descriptions of multiple strategies that are working with children and youth with severe emotional and behavioral challenges. Includes examples of model schools.

Disruptive and Disaffected Pupils in Mainstream Schools This site includes downloadable examples of Individual Behavior Plans and a sizeable database of references and strategies for teachers, parents and agencies involved with Disaffected Pupils in Mainstream Schools.

Positive Approaches to challenging behavior for young children with disabilities. Information to help families, caregivers, and service providers understand why a particular behavior may occur,

Wrap-around Planning. A site that describes approaches to coordinate school and agency services to provide holistic support to children with behavioral challenges and their families.