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70 to 90%
of low-level, chronic behaviors can be reduced or eliminated with these strategies.
Program one
What would ten more hours on task each week do for achievement?
One day of practical, research-based strategies that teachers start using in their next class period.
Why this training
What a management system changes
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More teaching
Less time on discipline means lessons actually get delivered. Academics and discipline rise or fall together.
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Teachers who stay
Classroom management is the top reason educators leave. Teachers who feel effective are more likely to stay.
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
One day, five components
The training models each strategy and gives teachers time to practice it.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component One
Self-control strategies
The day begins with the teacher. Staying calm under pressure, reading the classroom, and holding the teaching power position let teachers prevent most disruptions instead of reacting to them.
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
Teachers set up the first week of school for the whole year. Expectations get a lesson plan, modeling, and repeated practice, and office referrals go down.
Component Three
Responding to challenges
Timing matters when a student challenges a teacher. Using the diffuser system, contingent withdrawal of attention, and a supportive stance, teachers defuse confrontations in five seconds or less, and they stop giving repeated warnings.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Where students sit and where the teacher stands both shape behavior. This component turns that into fifteen practical desk arrangements.
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
The agenda
This is the full-day version. The training can also run as a half-day, on site, on dates you choose.
In the first block, from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM, your trainer covers mindset, classroom design, the teaching power position, fifteen desk arrangements, and rules and procedures.
The second block starts at 1:00 PM, after lunch, and ends at 3:30 PM. Its topics are firm and fair discipline, relationships, non-compliant students, the five steps to regain control, and ending repeated warnings and requests.
Give every teacher the same system
Start with a quote for your school or district.