Component One
Self-control strategies
Everything else in the training builds on self-control. Teachers learn to read the room, stay calm, and catch disruptions early, preventing up to 90% of low-level problems.
Program one
Give your teachers one shared plan for behavior
Research-based strategies, taught and practiced in one day, ready for the next class period.
Why this training
Why schools book this training
Academics and discipline cannot be separated. Low-level behavior takes instruction time all day, and even the strongest content teacher cannot deliver a lesson in a room that is out of control.
The strategies in this training reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of low-level, chronic behaviors. Teachers get time back and feel more effective, and that matters for retention: classroom management is the number one reason educators leave.
Research
"Teachers' actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, staff collegiality, and community involvement."
Marzano, R. J. (2003). What Works in Schools. ASCD.
The five components
What the day covers
Five strategies make up a complete management system. Each is taught, modeled, and practiced.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
Routines are taught like academics. This component gives teachers a lesson-plan format for expectations and a plan for the first week of school.
Component Three
Responding to challenges
This is the part teachers ask about most: what to do in the moment. The diffuser system, a supportive stance, and five immediate steps for an out-of-control student give them a plan.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Fifteen desk arrangements, and when to use each one. Teachers also learn where to stand so challenges are less likely to start.
Component Five
Student-teacher relationships
Students engage with a teacher who sees them, knows them, and values them. Teachers learn to build trust with the most challenging students and turn non-compliant students into contributors.
Agenda
How the day runs
Here is a typical full day. Half-day versions are available, and dates are set around your calendar.
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM covers how to stay calm and alert, how to arrange and design the classroom (including fifteen desk arrangements), the teaching power position, and how to teach and enforce rules and procedures.
1:00 to 3:30 PM, after a one-hour lunch, covers disciplinary actions that are firm but fair, student-teacher relationships, non-compliant students, the five immediate steps to regain control, and teaching without multiple warnings or repeated requests.
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