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Wood, Chip; Freeman-Loftis, Babs – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Positive adult language is the professional use of words and tone of voice to enable students to learn in an engaged, active way. This includes learning social skills. To guide children toward choosing and maintaining positive behaviors, adults need to carefully choose the words and tone of voice used when speaking to them. Learning to use…
Descriptors: Children, Positive Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Teacher Student Relationship
Willoughby, Brian – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Schools in Maryland and Connecticut are rethinking suspension policies and practices. They are finding that promoting positive behavior choices rather than punishing the negative is leading to higher graduation rates, especially among students of color. In the 2003-2004 academic year, Baltimore City Public Schools recorded 26,000 suspensions. Six…
Descriptors: Suspension, Behavior Problems, Graduation Rate, Zero Tolerance Policy
Sugai, George – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Over the past 25 years, Gallup polls have consistently reported that disruptive behavior and discipline problems are some of the top concerns of school staff and community members. In fact, problems with classroom management are among the most common reasons that teachers leave their jobs. In response, many schools are turning to more formal…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline Problems, Student Behavior, Discipline
Shore, Kenneth – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
In recent years, bullying seems to have become more serious and more pervasive. Research indicates that 15% to 20% of all students are victimized by bullies at some point in their school careers. Clearly, bullying is a problem that schools must recognize and address. Bullying has three distinguishing characteristics: (1) it is intentional; (2) it…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Suicide, Children
Brownstein, Rhonda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
Significant numbers of students are being pushed out of school as a result of "zero tolerance" school discipline policies. While nobody questions the need to keep schools safe, teachers, students, and parents are questioning the methods being used in pursuit of that goal. Zero tolerance policies were initially aimed at making schools safe. The…
Descriptors: Suspension, Law Enforcement, Zero Tolerance Policy, Violence
Cregor, Matthew – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
This article features Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a systems-based method for improving student behavior. PBIS was developed at the University of Oregon and has been shown to work at all grade levels and be effective in districts with greater concentrations of poverty and higher percentages of "at-risk" students. It has…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Discipline, At Risk Students, Discipline Policy
Tyson, Nathan L. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
Communication is the cornerstone of any successful leadership enterprise, including education leadership. It is counterintuitive to think that an excellent education leader could possess a keen vision and have no ability to communicate that vision to students and staff members. Discovering and implementing the rules of communicating effectively…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills
Heitzmann, Ray – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
Targeted homework is based upon the belief that homework can make a significant contribution to student achievement in the areas of knowledge, skills, and values. It centers on the notion that homework achieves maximum effectiveness when teachers share the school's homework policy as well as their policy with students and parents or guardians. The…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Academic Achievement, Teacher Student Relationship, Parent School Relationship
Green, Robert L.; Stachnik, Thomas J. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "Phi Delta Kappan," Volume 50 (December 1968), 228-30.
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Financial Needs