Student Behavior

Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic...

A Teacher's Guide to Managing Disruptions and Igniting Engagement: From Chaos to Connection Practical Strategies • Real Classrooms • Renewed Joy Do student interruptions leave you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or like you’re constantly putting out fires? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to keep surviving the day. This transformative guide is your classroom compass—rooted in real-world practice, educational psychology, and a deep respect for the challenges teachers face. Whether you’re a new educator or a seasoned pro, you’ll find concrete tools to turn chaos into calm...

What teachers say to students—when they praise or discipline, give directions or ask questions, and introduce concepts or share stories—affects student learning and behavior. A slight change in intonation can also dramatically change how language feels for students. In What We Say and How We Say It Matter, Mike Anderson digs into the nuances of language in the classroom. This audiobook's many examples will help teachers examine their language habits and intentionally improve their classroom practice so their language matches and supports their goals.

The Behavior Code unlocks a wealth of proven practices to help teachers, counselors, and parents identify the messages underlying challenging student behaviors and respond in supportive ways. 

Clarify Priorities: Setting Goals & Guardrails, a short workbook, is part of the Effective School Boards Implementation Guide Series, a companion set of workbooks that go deeper into each of the aspects of continuous improvement introduced in, "Great On Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective." This workbook provides step-by-step guidance on identifying the community's vision and values and codifying them into policy. www.EffectiveSchoolBoards.com

The Classroom Behavior Manual is a resource you can return to again and again, packed with more than 100 strategies and dozens of procedures and tools. Learn how to respond to negative behaviors in nonpunitive ways so that you can ensure all students' school days are as calm, engaging, and educational as they possibly can be.

The Smart Classroom Management Way is a collection of the very best writing from ten years of Smart Classroom Management (SCM). It isn't, however, simply a random mix of popular articles. It's a comprehensive work that encompasses every principle, theme, and methodology of the SCM approach. The book is laid out across six major areas of classroom management and includes the most pressing issues, problems, and concerns shared by all teachers. The underlying SCM themes of accountability, maturity, independence, personal responsibility, and intrinsic motivation are all there and weave their ...

Classrooms are like small organizations, and just as in any successful organization, effective leadership is key. Many teachers enter the classroom with limited training in classroom management and virtually none in leadership—a missed opportunity. While teachers hold positions of authority, true leadership goes beyond that. Building classroom leaders across a school creates a model of shared leadership, where both teachers and students see leadership in action. Empowered teachers model leadership behaviors for their students, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone ...

Drawing on experience in general and special education, Victor Moody - Dean of Students, presents the PBIS Playbook, revealing the #1 school-wide positive behavior intervention system (PBIS) designed to improve student behavior, academic achievement, and school culture. This practical resource offers a proven, step-by-step system for successfully managing the most challenging students, classrooms, and schools in today’s toughest educational settings. PBIS Playbook contains premium information that can be used by educators in any school. However, this book is particularly sought after by ...

In Dream Class, you will learn the 15 keys that make the greatest difference in the classroom. Written from the unique perspective that everything you do affects classroom management, each key will help you create the class you've always wanted: your dream class. They will free you to love your job, build effortless and influential relationships with your students, and enable you to become a happier, calmer, and more confident teacher. You will learn: -Simple strategies that make classroom management a lot easier. -Exactly (step-by-step) how to handle difficult students. -How to create a ...

Unlock the Hidden Power of ADHD - Transform Focus, Energy, and Confidence by Resetting the Brain’s Reward System Are you doing everything “right” but still watching focus slip through your fingers? Have you ever wondered why traditional ADHD strategies fall short - despite the best diets, therapies, and medications? What if the secret to managing ADHD wasn’t about doing more - but about understanding why the ADHD brain craves more in the first place? The Dopamine Detox is a groundbreaking guide that takes you beyond surface-level solutions and into the brain’s primal operating ...

Improve student outcomes with data-driven coaching. Student-Centered Coaching is grounded on the premise that school-based coaching can be designed to directly impact student learning. Shifting the focus from “fixing” teachers to collaborating with them in designing instruction that targets for student achievement makes coaching more respectful and results-based. The book also underscores the critical role of the principal in fostering a culture of learning.

The locked door of a dorm room is only a suggestion. The ivy-covered walls won't keep you safe. Higher education sells the promise of an idyllic, secure bubble. But what happens when the most dangerous person is the one sitting next to you in a lecture hall, or sleeping six feet away in your own room? This book rips away the academic illusion to examine twenty of the most chilling, devastating, and defining cases to ever strike student populations. From high-profile massacres to deeply unsettling cold cases, this volume reconstructs the timelines, the police response, and the lasting ...

We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we?

Principal leadership studies have indicated that leadership can play an essential role in augmenting students' achievement scores. One significant influence that can affect achievement scores is the leadership style of the principal. This study focuses on fourth grade achievement scores within urban elementary schools and explores the relationship between the principals' leadership styles and fourth-grade achievement scores. This study also examines the relationship between teachers' and principals' perceptions of leadership and school climate in order to determine whether significant ...

How's your classroom Kung Fu? In this guide, teacher Dennis Nappi II applies his years of special-educaiton classroom experience coupled with his police and military experience to bring you 7 easy-to-implement classroom-management strategies. Whether your new, seasoned, or struggling, these simple steps will deepen your relationships with students, reduce time-wasting disruptions, and improve your overall classroom management. Start reading today and prepare your room for combat!

Understand the Students. Transform the Classroom. Change the Future. Every classroom is a complex ecosystem of personalities—some bold, some quiet, some disruptive, some eager, many misunderstood. Yet too often, teachers are left to manage behaviors without understanding the deeper story behind them. The Student Code: Decoding the Personalities That Shape the Classroom is the essential guide for teachers, coaches, counselors, and school leaders who want to go beyond behavior charts and classroom rules—and start connecting with students on a deeper, transformational level. Written by ...

So much of the world revolves around economics, so why do most texts make it so dull and difficult to learn? But learning economics doesn’t have to be boring. In Economics 101, you’ll see how learning economics can be engaging. Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of economics...

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How to win an argument is a LIFE SKILL. Unfortunately, schools don’t teach it. An average man everyday finds himself in at least 5-10 situations where he is in some disagreement with another. Thus, this requires him to have the essential life skill of arguing successfully to get his point heard, to get his opinion or perception understood, and to get his view implemented. Knowing how to argue successfully can be the difference between success and failure Have you been in an argument with your parents whom you love so much but yet you want to live your life on your own terms rather than ...