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Lost instructional time
Low-level discipline takes instruction time every day. A teacher can know the content well, and without classroom control the lesson still does not get delivered.
Program one
Classroom management training for your whole staff, in one day
The training is a full day on your campus, and teachers leave with a complete system they can use right away.
Why this training
Every campus is fighting the same four problems
If your building feels any of these, this training was built for it.
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Discipline incidents
Achievement goes up after discipline is handled. The training gives teachers a system to improve behavior, and they use it immediately.
03
Job satisfaction
The strategies reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of low-level, chronic behaviors. Teachers feel less stress and more effective.
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Retention
Classroom management, or the lack of it, is the number one reason educators leave the profession. It is a teachable skill.
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
The playbook
Five strategies, each taught, modeled, and practiced during the training.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component One
Self-control strategies
Teachers practice the diffuser system and the teaching power position. Both are about prevention, which can head off up to 90% of low-level problems before instruction stops.
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
When a student pushes back, what should the teacher do first? This component answers that with five immediate steps, contingent withdrawal of attention, and firm, fair follow-through.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Room design is part of classroom management. With the right arrangement, the room supports instruction and many discipline issues never come up.
Component Five
Student-teacher relationships
Room design matters, and relationships matter more. Teachers practice making each student feel individually seen, including the most challenging ones.
Agenda
How the day runs
Here is a typical full day. Half-day versions are available, and dates are set around your calendar.
Teachers start at 8:30 AM with the classroom itself: a calm mindset, room design, the teaching power position, and fifteen desk arrangements. Rules and procedures close the morning at 12:00 PM.
Lunch runs from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. Between 1:00 and 3:30 PM, teachers learn to carry out discipline firmly but fairly, build relationships, connect with non-compliant students, regain control in five steps, and stop giving repeated warnings.
Give every teacher the same system
Start with a quote for your school or district.