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A Guide for Principals and Leadership Teams

Geoff Colvin, Ph.D

Maintaining well-disciplined schools is becoming more difficult in today's educational system, and problem behavior or lack of school discipline is reaching crisis proportions. Nationally recognized author and educator Geoff Colvin provides the "what's," "why's" and "how's" for establishing an effective discipline program while promoting an overall positive and welcoming school climate.

Emphasizing the critical roles that collaboration and teamwork play in achieving success, this powerful research-based resource offers administrators and school leaders a seven-step process for preparing and implementing a schoolwide behavior management plan. This collaborative, proactive tool explains how to teach, acknowledge and measure the positive social behavior in a school. Field-tested successfully in over 60 schools nationwide!

 This guidebook is filled with practical checklists and user-friendly forms that include explicit instructions to help educators:

• Define the purpose of the plan
• Establish schoolwide behavior expectations
• Teach the behavior expectations
• Maintain the behavior expectations
• Correct problem behaviors
• Collect and utilize data
• Sustain the plan for the long haul

"Grab the book with one hand and a member of your team with the other. You are about to embark on a great adventure, one that will support you in making a real difference in the ways you grow children."
Nancy J. Franklin, Coordinator of Behavior Support, Los Angeles Unified School District, CA

"Outlines how to teach, acknowledge, and measure the positive social behavior in a school. Major strengths include the careful attention to collecting and using data for decision making and the thoughtful attention to ensuring that procedures are implemented in a manner that will sustain."
Rob Horner, Professor, University of Oregon

Audience:

Administrators and school leaders

Developer:

Developed by Geoff Colvin, Ph.D., Behavior Specialist