Deal With It: Tough Issues 10 volume set
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- Bullying, Violence, Violence, Bullying, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Recommended Reading age
- 9 to 14
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Unknown
- ISBN
- 9781459417120
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $240.00
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Description
These approachable, practical resources help young people deal with some of the toughest interpersonal and social conflicts they face.. Each book tackles a specific source of conflict. Each one addresses the experience of the target of conflict, the bystander – and the perpetrator. The authors offer strategies that young readers can use when they come face to face with these issues, no matter what their role in the conflict. Graphic-novel style illustrations are combined with short, readable text
This set gives every classroom teacher, guidance counsellor, or principal a valuable resource to support inclusive education and to build classroom community.
The set consists of: Ableism, Biphobia, White Privilege, Body Image, Islamophobia, Consent, Freedom of Expression, Transphobia, Bullying, and Racism.
This set is also available as a streaming online resource at www.canadiancloudlibrary.ca.
About the authors
KIMBERLY MAICH is a professor of special education at Memorial University. She has served as a clinical coordinator for McMaster Children's Hospital’s ASD School Support Program. Dr. Maich is a certified teacher, special education specialist, and professor. She teaches, researches, and publishes in the disability field and was Newfoundland and Labradors first board certified behaviour analyst. She lives in Logy Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador.
Gordon Nore is an elementary teacher librarian who has advised queer straight alliances in schools for ten years. His writing has appeared in Xtra, Today's Parent, and ETFO Voice magazines, as well as the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen newspapers. He lives in Tkaronto, unceded territory.
CATHERINE INGLIS is an elementary teacher who has taught in K–8 classrooms for more than 20 years. As an Instructional Coach with Model Schools for Inner Cities, she worked with teachers to help with language and math programs and to integrate more equity focus in school-wide initiatives. As a bi-racial woman, Catherine has always been committed to teaching toward equity and inclusion for all students and has worked on a team to produce lesson plans on white privilege. She is also the co-author of Re-Think, Re-Connect, Re-Imagine, a teacher guide on white privilege, and the resource The Women’s Equality Project. Catherine lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario.
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TIERRA HOHN teaches yoga, works for youth mental health organization Jack.org and is on the Advisory Board at Body Brave, which provides treatment for individuals struggling with eating disorders. While in high school, Tierra founded Untouched Beauty, an organization that allowed her to organize and facilitate workshops around Body Image and mental health. She has a Master of Public Health doing work in public policy, advocacy and health care. Tierra lives and works in Toronto.
SAFIA SALEH is a passionate advocate for equity and inclusion. She is a Resource Teacher and facilitates professional learning for teachers and equity learning for youth. Safia's work includes supporting safe and inclusive schools through an understanding of anti-Islamophobia, anti-racism, healthy relationships, mental health, and well-being. Safia lives in Brampton, Ontario.
KEISHA EVANS has been supporting and advocating for children, youth and their families for more than twenty years. She is a child youth counsellor and works to teach children about body safety and respecting boundaries. Keisha lives in Oshawa, Ontario.
N.B. GONSALVEZ is the author of My Parts Are My Parts, Your Parts Are Your Parts, a picture book about Consent. She lives with her family in Whitby, Ontario.
DANIELLE S. MCLAUGHLIN was Director of Education for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Education Trust from 1988 to 2016. Recipient of the Law Foundation of Ontario Community Leadership in Justice Fellowship, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Windsor's Faculty of Education. Danielle designed, developed and delivered the Teaching Civil Liberties and Civil Liberties in the Schools programs for students from kindergarten to high school, faculties of education, and law schools. She is co-author with Reuben McLaughlin of the That's Not Fair! videos, and author of That's Not Fair! Getting to Know Your Rights and Freedoms. Danielle also blogs for Ryerson University's Centre for Freedom of Expression and Huffington Post Canada. She lives in Toronto.
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J WALLACE SKELTON is an educator, activist and writer. For over a decade, he has worked in schools to make them safer and more celebratory places for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. As a consultant, he has helped many organizations do better around gender identity and gender expression, including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, the Halton District School Board, York Region Public Health and York University.
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ELAINE SLAVENS is the former Consultant of Guidance and Social/Personal Skills for the Toronto District School Board and was previously Conflict Resolution Advisor for the Toronto Board of Education. This book reflects her deep and sympathetic understanding of young people and her experience with issues of conflict in school settings. The Deal With It Series helps adolescents cope with conflicts in everyday life and aims to promote peaceful homes, schools, and communities.
ANNE MARIE AIKINS has written extensively about social justice issues for a variety of publications for both children and adults. She lives in Toronto.
