Teaching Self-Discipline: The Responsive Classroom Guide to Helping Students Dream, Behave, and Achieve in Elementary School

Help students develop the intrinsic motivation to take care of themselves, each other, and their own learning! Readers will learn how to build a solid foundation for positive behavior by investing students in the rules. The techniques in this book have helped teachers around the world foster essential social-emotional and academic skills in the classroom creating learning environments where every student can thrive. Packed with real-life stories from K-5 classrooms, this book includes practical strategies for: creating effective rules that strengthen classroom community, responding to both common and complex misbehaviors, helping students who struggle with behavior due to trauma or toxic stress, communicating with parents and building a network of support for students, and much more!