News & Announcements
For immediate release:
10/11/2007
A Statement from CSEE on the Cleveland School Shooting
New York, NY; October 11, 2007 — The Center for Social and Emotional Education (CSEE) shares its heartfelt concern and deepest sympathy with the entire Success Tech Academy and Cleveland community as it copes with the aftermath of yesterday's distressing school shooting.
This tragic event underscores the importance of CSEE's mission to help schools provide safe, caring and supportive learning environments for all students, and renews our commitment to offer effective and comprehensive supports to further these efforts.
To that end, CSEE will be collaborating with the Ohio Resource Network (ORN) to create and implement a comprehensive safety and drug-prevention program for all Ohio schools. Funded by the Ohio Department of Education, this substantial research-based effort will provide the entire school community with valuable resources, educational supports, and networking opportunities designed to keep Ohio's more than 3500 schools safe and drug-free.
For more information, please read the official press release on this program.
"The goal of this collaborative program is to provide Ohio school communities with a network of systemic and proven supports to help them meet the complex needs of students and address critical issues of school safety and drug use." said CSEE President Jonathan Cohen. "It is our sincerest hope that these efforts will be part of a shared national initiative to prevent future tragedies from occurring on school grounds and will help create safer and more supportive learning environments for all students."
CSEE is dedicated to helping schools integrate essential social and emotional learning with academic instruction to enhance student performance, reduce violence, and develop healthy and positively engaged adults.
For more information on CSEE's violence prevention support services, please visit: http://www.csee.net/climate/programsservices/workshops.html
Or contact:
Darlene Faster, Director of Communications
(212) 707-8799 x22
dfaster@csee.net
"I hope that this important book will be read, and its lessons applied, by school boards, teachers, administrators, politicians, voters, and parents across the country."
— James Gilligan, M.D., Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor
New York University, Director, Center for the Study of Violence
"Devine and Cohen give educators clear direction on what to do about creating the climate and teaching the skills that promote safe and successful students and schools!"
— Merle Schwartz, Ph.D.
Director of Education and Research, Character Education Partnership
CSEE has always been focused on how parents, school personnel and students can and need to work together to create safe, caring, responsible democratic school communities. Despite living in an era where security measures like metal detectors and on-campus safety officers have become commonplace in our nation's schools, many still face troubling safety concerns. In this volume, Jonathan Cohen and John Devine, two leading experts on school violence and social, emotional, ethical and academic education, provide much-needed guidelines for making every school a safe and supportive learning environment. They combine traditional crisis management and emergency planning with key principles that have become the cornerstones of evidence-based, social emotional learning and character education. Featuring real-life examples and best practices, Making Your School Safe covers widespread concerns, ranging from bullying and social exclusion to gang-related violence, as well as major catastrophic events.
For immediate release:
4/16/2007
CSEE Extends Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to the Virginia Tech Community.
A Statement by CSEE President and co-founder Jonathan Cohen, PhD
The Center for Social and Emotional Education (CSEE) offers its heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathy to the victims and their family, as well as to the entire Virginia Tech and Blacksburg community.
"This tragic event underscores the importance of CSEE's mission, and renews our commitment to provide effective tools for positive social and emotional development and school climate improvement in our nation's schools. In fact, there is an extraordinary body of research that can help parents and teachers to promote specific skills and dispositions that help youngsters and young adults to solve problems in nonviolent ways. It is our sincerest hope that these efforts will be part of a shared national initiative to prevent such tragedies from occurring in the future."
CSEE is dedicated to helping schools integrate crucial social and emotional learning with academic instruction to enhance student performance, reduce violence, and develop healthy and positively engaged adults.
For more information on CSEE's violence prevention support services, please visit: http://www.csee.net/climate/programsservices/workshops.html
or contact:
Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D. President
Center for Social and Emotional Education
1841 Broadway, Suite 713
New York, NY 10023
email: jcohen@csee.net
Phone: 212-707-8799 ext. 33