Responsible Classroom Management, Grades 6–12

"The RCM plan works because it is straightforward and easy for staff, students, and parents to understand and, most important, to buy into. Staff members appreciate the research and the paradigm of modeling responsibility. Students identify with the emphasis on responsibility and the use of logical consequences. The RCM plan has been a major part of positively changing the overall culture in our school."
—Ronald S. Dixon, Principal
John Taylor Williams Middle School, Charlotte, NC

A schoolwide plan for decreasing discipline problems and empowering adolescents to act responsibly!

Proven to reduce office referrals, suspensions, and dropout rates, the Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) is a nationally field-tested, team-based approach to schoolwide behavior management and discipline. Written for teachers and administrators in Grades 6–12, this detailed resource:

• Addresses the nuts and bolts of classroom management
• Explains the essential skills teachers need to reinforce responsible behavior and model appropriate social conduct
• Provides tested consequences that promote internal behavior control in secondary school students
• Includes administrator resources and tools for introducing, implementing, and monitoring Responsible Classroom Management in a school or district

Emphasizing the importance of teamwork between administrators and teachers in maintaining schoolwide behavior standards and expectations, this book introduces the RCMPlan™ system and provides the tools you need for successful implementation.

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• Focuses on the needs of professionals who work in the diverse settings that characterize today's schools
• Uses a schoolwide, team-based approach—involving administrators, teachers, school psychologists, other support personnel, and parents—to identify, implement, and evaluate best practices and support improvement efforts through budget, personnel, and resource allocations
• Emphasizes the importance of teamwork among teachers in reinforcing school-wide standards when in the classroom, the halls, the lunchroom, or on the playground.
• Addresses the nuts and bolts of classroom management, explains the essential skills that effective teachers need to teach responsible behavior and internal student control, and provides sample forms and letters for easy implementation
• Shows teachers how to create a warm and inviting classroom environment, develop flexible standards and guidelines in place of rigid rules, and treat students fairly through a variety of personalized methods
• Makes behavioral instruction proactive and demonstrates how to teach and model appropriate social behavior, give students opportunities to practice and become fluent in expected behavior, and provide plenty of positive feedback
• Provides tested consequences for secondary school students that promote internal behavior control
• Explains how teachers can use a continuum of behavior support and describes an Intensive Care Unit and Behavioral Improvement Agreements for more serious student infractions
• A Principal's Guide in the Resources section provides an at-a-glance process with accompanying tools for successfully introducing, implementing and monitoring Responsible Classroom Management within a school