Who Should Attend
General education teachers K through 12, special education teachers, principals, counselors, psychologists, at-risk coordinators, title 1 coordinators, special education directors, staff development directors, para professionals, educational assistants, administrators, curriculum directors, school board members, parents.
All educators who:
- Want a program that significantly reduces classroom / school discipline problems by
- teaching self-discipline, responsibility,
- cooperation, and problem-solving skills
- Believe that good behavior is as important as academics in helping students be successful in work, in the community, and in relationships
- Know that nonpunitive methods work best for long-range positive results with students-and who want a large toolbox of nonpunitive methods
- Want classrooms where students demonstrate mutual respect.
Especially those educators who want to:
- Increase student achievement
- Create positive classroom behavior
- Intervene effectively when students misbehave
- Develop a classroom climate and school culture based on
- caring,
- clear limits, consistency,
- and respect
- Motivate apathetic, reluctant learners, and potential dropouts
- Build a foundation for the prevention of violence
- Improve home, school, and community collaboration
- Promote character education and the development of good citizenship
Why Attend?
You are guaranteed to learn how to:
- Eliminate repeated warnings & multiple requests in a positive fashion
- Teach the disrespectful to be respectful
- Teach the unmotivated to be motivated
- Teach the irresponsible to be responsible
- Be proactive rather than reactive
- Arrange any classroom for maximum achievement
- Avoid power struggles
- Capture student attention
- Refocus™ the reluctant learner
- Use a myriad of powerful prompting techniques
- Spend quality time with ALL students in your classroom