Part of a special section on schools as safe havens. Teachers, administrators, school counselors, and school nurses play a vital role in helping students understand and survive the grieving process. Teachers need to understand how students of different age groups deal with grief and how to manage the classroom while addressing these students' needs. One way to ease the burden on guidance counselors and school psychologists in an overburdened school system is to provide grief training to teachers. Following grief training, teachers are more apt to recognize grief as the cause of students' behavioral or academic problems. Such training can also heighten teachers' awareness of the dangers of students' preoccupation with, or idealizing, of violence or death or suicidal thoughts and give teachers a better understanding of the reasons behind unusually good behavior and a relentless need to please. Recommendations for reaching out to grieving students are provided.