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.
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
Discipline and academics are the same problem
When low-level behavior fills the day, instruction time disappears and the best lesson plans go undelivered. A campus that wants higher achievement has to give teachers a working system for discipline first.
This training does that. Its strategies reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of low-level, chronic behaviors, which lowers stress for teachers. Classroom management is the number one reason educators leave the profession, so it is also a retention plan.
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
Five strategies in one day
Each one is taught, modeled, and practiced, and teachers leave with a playbook they can use.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
The first day, week, and month of school matter most for classroom management. Teachers learn to teach routines the way they teach reading or math: a lesson plan, modeling, and practice until the routine is automatic.
Component Three
Responding to challenges
Five seconds is the target. With the diffuser system and a supportive stance, teachers end most confrontations in that time without raising their voices.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Teachers learn to arrange the classroom for the lesson at hand. The training covers fifteen layouts, traditional and unorthodox, and teacher positioning.
Component Five
Student-teacher relationships
The hardest students are usually the ones who most need a connection. This component shows teachers how to build it and how to bring non-compliant students into the work of the class.
Agenda
The agenda
This is the full-day version. The training can also run as a half-day, on site, on dates you choose.
The morning block (8:30 AM to 12:00 PM) starts with mindset and the room: staying calm, designing the classroom environment, the teaching power position, and fifteen desk arrangements. It ends with teaching and enforcing rules and procedures.
After lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 PM, the afternoon block runs until 3:30 PM. It turns to discipline and relationships, including how to reach non-compliant students, the five immediate steps to regain control, and how to stop repeating requests and warnings.
Give every teacher the same system
Start with a quote for your school or district.