Responsive School Discipline: Essentials for Elementary School Leaders
<p><strong>Bring positive behavior to your school </strong>through strong, consistent, and positive discipline. Experienced administrators Chip Wood and Babs Freeman-Loftis offer practical strategies for building a safe, calm, and respectful school climate-strategies based on deep respect for children and for staff. See how to:</p><ul><li>Establish signals that get children's quick, quiet attention anytime and anywhere in school</li><li>Craft school rules that children take seriously even cherish</li><li>Create peaceful recesses, lunchtimes, hallways, and bus rides</li><li>Give staff techniques for teaching and reinforcing expected behavior</li><li>Help children with especially challenging behaviors avoid discipline problems</li><li>Give staff methods for quickly restoring positive behavior when a discipline problem comes up</li><li>Involve parents in improving school discipline</li></ul>