Describes The Social Development Program, a way to foster social responsibility and in the process reduce unacceptable classroom behavior simply and easily. The strategy is based on several principles: positivity; empowerment by choice; the importance of self-evaluation and self-correction; assumption of social responsibility; and authority…

If the problems of student violence and other forms of misbehavior are to be solved, educators must refocus attention on each student as an individual. (Author)