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Where the time goes
Low-level disruption, repeated all day. Without classroom control, good lessons stay undelivered.
Program one
What would ten more hours on task each week do for achievement?
One day of practical, research-based strategies that teachers start using in their next class period.
Why this training
Is discipline taking your instruction time?
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What the system does
Teachers reduce or eliminate 70 to 90% of low-level, chronic behaviors and get back to teaching.
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Why it matters for staffing
Classroom management is the number one reason educators leave. Teaching it lowers stress and keeps people in the profession.
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
What the day covers
Five strategies make up a complete management system. Each is taught, modeled, and practiced.
1. Self-Control
2. Rules & Procedures
3. Responding to Challenges
4. Ecology & Arrangement
5. Relationships
Component One
Self-control strategies
Up to 90% of low-level problems can be stopped before they interrupt a lesson. This component teaches the calm, the teaching power position, and the diffuser system that make that possible.
Component Two
Teaching rules and procedures
Clear procedures, taught on purpose, reduce office referrals. Teachers learn to plan and practice routines the same way they plan academic lessons.
Component Three
Responding to challenges
Teachers learn to ask once, defuse a challenge in five seconds or less, and follow through, with no second or third warning.
Component Four
Classroom ecology and arrangement
Fifteen desk arrangements, and when to use each one. Teachers also learn where to stand so challenges are less likely to start.
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 day, hour by hour
The format is flexible: half-day or full-day, in person on your campus, scheduled around your calendar.
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM covers how to stay calm and alert, how to arrange and design the classroom (including fifteen desk arrangements), the teaching power position, and how to teach and enforce rules and procedures.
1:00 to 3:30 PM, after a one-hour lunch, covers disciplinary actions that are firm but fair, student-teacher relationships, non-compliant students, the five immediate steps to regain control, and teaching without multiple warnings or repeated requests.
Schedule the training
Tell Bree Chaplin how many teachers will attend and when.