How can you extend the climate of trust, respect, and caring that you've achieved in your classrooms to all the other spaces in your school community? The book offers seventeen articles on how educators have helped children manage their behavior on buses and playgrounds and in hallways, bathrooms, lunchrooms, and special area classrooms. Each article offers practical tips adaptable to many school settings. A resource list offers books, articles, websites, and videos with more ideas about how to nurture a positive climate that helps all children learn.

THE BUS -- The wheels on the bus -- Working toward bus civility -- The bus bully project -- HALLWAYS AND BATHROOMS -- Calm, friendly hallway behavior -- Hallway greeters -- The bathroom opportunity -- RECESS AND LUNCH -- New ways to play -- The middle of the day -- Communicating about lunch -- SPECIAL AREA CLASSROOMS -- Using the Responsive Classroom approach in special area classrooms -- Getting to know you -- BUILDING COMMUNITY -- All-school meetings -- Morning meeting begins at 7:15 p.m.! -- TAKING THE RULES SCHOOL-WIDE -- Traveling rules -- Buddy teachers -- A place for recovering self-control -- School-wide rules creation.