Safe School

Cool Tools Motto: "It's not cool to be cruel."

A toolbox filled with inflatable toys, kaleidoscopes, mazes, ice cube trays, toothpaste tubes and a "BIG Mistake" eraser serves as the core learning component for Cool Tools, an innovative conflict resolution system developed at UES.

Cool Tools vividly teaches lifelong strategies for handling all forms of bullying. It was created to ensure a caring community in which all students feel safe to learn and play without threats of physical, verbal or non-verbal harassment of any type.

Cool Tools in the News:	Cool Tools Components
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It's Up to You (Scholastic News) [download pdf] Cool Tools for Teaching Kids (UCLA Magazine) [download pdf] Trying New Ways to Tame Bullying in the Schoolyard (Los Angeles Times) [download pdf] Bullying A Common Occurrance Among Sixth Graders, UCLA study finds (UCLA press release) [download pdf] Myths and Facts about Bullying (Behavioral Health Management) [download pdf] Safe places, Sacred spaces (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) [download pdf]	[Guidelines] Safe School norms and decision-making forms that guide changing the school culture [Toolbox At-a-Glance] Overview of tools and what they represent [Curriculum Guide] 8 detailed lesson plans, one per tool (see sample lesson 4, which uses inflatable shoes to teach about EXIT) [Kids Say the Coolest Things] Cues that form the common core for school-wide norms [Mediation Forms] Sample Sort-It-Out Forms designed to get the perspective of all participants in a conflict