Keep your school on track with this powerful research-based behavior management tool! 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 behavior experts Geoff Colvin and George Sugai provide 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 resource presents a seven-step process to assist administrators and teachers in working together to develop and implement a practical and proactive schoolwide discipline plan. Based on a five-year federally funded project at the University of Oregon and field-tested 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 and sustain behavior expectations
- Correct problem behaviors
- Maintain the plan over time
7 Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan contains a full range of effective behavior management practices to help educators develop a strong, affirming school environment that successfully serves students and staff.
Industry Reviews
"Whether you are just getting started with the PBIS framework or you are well-versed in implementation, this book is a fantastic resource. It logically lays out and connects the "what's," "why's," and "how's" of schoolwide practices with procedural steps for effective implementation. This will not be a book you read and put on the shelf. Instead, it will become the action in your planning by following the steps, using the checklists, and providing staff with the content and language that makes the steps of implementation relevant and explicit." -- Janet Balthazar, Principal "For over ten years, Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan has been a landmark publication for teachers as well as those in school leadership. This revised edition outlines guiding principles and procedures for creating safe and positive learning environments that maximise student learning in today's complex school environments. Its depth of content spans the needs of beginning teachers interested in the teaching and learning process through to school leaders seeking a roadmap for school improvement. For schools implementing Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, this text provides a well-constructed foundation for beginners, through to offering expert guidance to nurture and sustain your endeavours." -- Shiralee Poed, PhD, Senior Lecturer "For a schoolwide system to be truly successful, everyone involved--from superintendent to support staff--must understand their responsibilities within the system and appreciate the fundamental principles on which it is based. Whether your school is considering a comprehensive system for the first time or attempting to improve on an existing system, this book will be your guide. It is clear and accessible, using current research to explain the best practices involved in maximizing the behavioral and academic outcomes of all students. You will learn how to set up the optimal conditions for desired behaviors to increase, and also how to effectively intervene when they do not. The appendix is also full of resources that can get your classroom and your school on a more positive and productive path, starting today!" -- Jeff Albanese, Special Education Teacher "Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan is a must-have resource for school teams that want to systematically boost school climate. Rarely can one resource integrate research from both teaching and learning, school improvement, and implementation science with practical wisdom from schools into an accessible step-by-step process that teams can sustain over time. Colvin and Sugai have done just that--and included a number of practical tools and documents to boot." -- Howard S. Muscott, EdD, Director "Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline plan is a masterful update! Geoff Colvin and George Sugai have provided practitioner and research communities with a theoretically-grounded, highly practical, and user-friendly resource to support the design and installation of a proactive schoolwide discipline plan. The resources will be useful to district and school-site leaders and classroom teachers committed to providing safe, positive, and productive learning environments." -- Kathleen Lynne Lane, PhD, BCBA-D, Professor of Special Education
