Build a positive, accountable classroom environment with restorative discipline!
With restorative discipline, schools move beyond punitive approaches to shared expectations for learning and behavior. Used together with The School Leader” Guide to Restorative Discipline, this teacher’s guide shows how to create a welcoming and responsible community within your classroom, contributing to a consistent, schoolwide approach to discipline.
Authors Luanna Meyer and Ian Evans offer field-tested strategies that transform classroom dynamics. Topics include:
- A step-by-step approach to introducing restorative discipline in your classroom
- Developing peer support and group problem-solving among students, including preventing and stopping bullying
- Collaborating with administrators and colleagues on schoolwide behavior expectations
- Partnering with families and neighborhood organizations to support positive student conduct
- Managing effective individual interventions with students, including four key principles for success
This comprehensive guide helps teachers introduce and sustain a proven approach to discipline, preparing students for achievement in school and life.
Meyer, L.H., & Evans, I.M. (2012). The Teacher’s Guide to Restorative Classroom Discipline. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. www.corwin.com/books/Book236775
[Also reviewed in PsycCRITIQUES http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029820 ]
A positive model for restorative discipline
If you would like a more effective way to deal with discipline issues than “old school” punishment, this book is for you. The authors provide a research-based and field-tested model that gives school leaders more productive alternatives to reprimands, exclusion, and out-of-school suspension. This positive program helps improve behavior and keep students in school. This guide’s model covers school-wide prevention, restoration, and intervention needs for students with emotional, behavioral, and conduct disorders (such as bullying) as well as developmental disabilities and autism. Key topics include:
- The latest research on the effectiveness of restorative discipline
- How to implement a comprehensive, school-wide discipline plan
- Ways to support and sustain the plan with teacher teams
- Networking with community services such as child protection, child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health professionals
This program has high social validity and utility for actual school and classroom settings. In addition to content learning, students need to learn appropriate behavior and social skills to succeed in school and in life. This book offers a solid, proven, and humane program that benefits students and keeps the focus where it should be—on learning.
Meyer, L.H., & Evans, I.M. (2012). The School Leader’s Guide to Restorative School Discipline. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. www.corwin.com/books/Book236774
[Also reviewed in PsycCRITIQUES http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029820 ]