Whole-school or whole-class programs designed to promote positive behavior can enhance the likelihood that effective teaching and learning occur for all students. This practice guide is intended to help elementary education educators, as well as school and district administrators and parents, implement and support effective prevention-focused…

This Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) guidance report is designed to support senior leaders in primary and secondary schools to make better-informed decisions about their behaviour strategies. It includes a number of practical examples of programmes and approaches that should be helpful in schools and classrooms where behaviour is generally…

This book provides tested, easy-to-implement strategies for preventing problem behavior in the classroom and responding effectively when it does occur. Chapters describe specific steps that K-12 teachers and other school-based professionals can take to develop effective classroom rules and routines; plan suitably challenging instruction; and…

How can schools create safe, well-supervised classroom environments while also teaching students skills for managing their behavior on their own? This invaluable guide presents a framework for achieving both of these crucial goals. It shows how to balance external reinforcements such as positive behavior supports with social-emotional learning…

Presented are four papers on the Positive Alternatives to Student Suspensions (PASS) Program, a project designed to provide a sequence of intervention strategies intended to prevent and/or minimize the frequency of nonproductive social behavioral acts of secondary school students in participating schools. In the first paper by R. Bailey and J.…

This training manual on emotional responses to disaster is designed for use by mental health professionals in the training of emergency medical teams whose job is to immediately respond to both large- and small-scale disasters. It is noted that members of these teams are usually not mental health professionals, but they must deal with a range of…

This booklet looks at two models that apply to problem behavior of students. The medical model defines problems as being within the student, and assumes there is very little that teachers can do about the behavior of these students. An alternative model is often called the ecological or educational model. The educational model targets disturbing,…

This publication, resulting from a survey of more than 2,000 school districts, focuses on school violence and ways to prevent it. Section 1 discusses both the problem of school violence and also the critical role that school boards must play in keeping schools safe. This section also includes information about how school boards can develop…

Intended for course instructors, this guide is the second of three designed for a two-day inservice training seminar for driver licensing administrative hearing officers. There are six sections, which acquaint the instructional staff with seminar duties, prescribe instructional methods, and cue instructors in visual aid use and unit time…