Courtney Macavinta

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 043: Why Fostering Cultures of Respect in Our Schools is Critical, with Courtney Macavinta · 7 Feb 2017 podcast

So I think that's number one.

Number two, you know, becoming a bit of an activist at your school.

This this kind of issue, you know, speaks to your heart.

Start like we're starting at my kids' school.

Start an inclusion committee for the school.

Look at the policies, look at the

your own data.

I mean, school suspension data is public data at a public school.

It's connected to funding too.

And school climate funding um in many districts.

So you know, look at our do we have a problem with this and what can we as parents do?

Then you can, you know, using us as a resource definitely, the Respect Institute has a free like e-training on all that stuff we talked about, you know, redefining respect and

you know, you can bring in our toolkit into your school to to start spreading respect as a practice, as a self-respect practice, as a mutual respect practice, and also using restorative practices which are integrated into our work.

Which help restore kids back into school and keep them connected to the community versus being punitive and pushing them out of school.

So those are a couple of practical things, but I would say definitely say, you know, what I would love to see, especially in our current climate, I know your audience is international and I'm kind of US centric in this talk today, but you know.

One of the things that's happened since the election is the Southern Poverty Law Center is documenting hate incidences across the country.

They've skyrocketed.

And the number one site for those incidences is school.

So now we're dealing also with bigotry and hate increase at many schools, public and private.

And so parents can really take a role in, you know, whether you're the PTA or an individual activist in saying, we're not gonna do that at this school.

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