No Putdowns: Creating a Healthy Learning Environment Through Encouragement, Understanding, and Respe

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