Responsible Classroom Management, Grades K–5

"The Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) truly lets teachers teach and the principal serve as the instructional leader. RCM is a brilliant concept that has cut office referrals by as much as 80% and dropout rates by 50%. The book provides principals and teachers with implementation steps for introducing the entire faculty or even the district to this wonderful program that takes students from a mindset of entitlement into a real-life world of being responsible for their own actions from day one."
—Chris Lineberry, Principal
Harmon Elementary School, San Tan Valley, AZ

Reduce office referrals, decrease suspensions, and increase responsible student behavior!

Written for principals and teachers, this nationally tested discipline plan for Grades K–5 emphasizes a team approach to managing student behavior. The authors' Responsible Classroom Management Plan (RCMPlan™) demonstrates how a behavior support system can promote good citizenship and appropriate social conduct. This all-inclusive resource offers:

• A research-based model that shows teachers how to reinforce responsible behavior in a warm inviting classroom environment
• Guidelines for developing flexible behavior standards and effective consequences in place of rigid rules
• An end-of-book toolbox with numerous tools, samples, and field-tested consequences for introducing, implementing, and monitoring Responsible Classroom Management schoolwide

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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 related to budget, personnel, and resource allocations
• Emphasizes the importance of teamwork among teachers in reinforcing schoolwide standards 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 needfor teachingresponsible 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 using a variety of personalized methods
• Makes behavioral instruction proactive anddemonstrates how to teach and model appropriate social behavior, give students opportunities to practice and become fluent in expected behavior, and provide positive feedback
• Provides tested consequences for elementary school students that promote internal behavior control
• Explains how teachers can use a continuum of behavior support and describes Behavioral Improvement Agreements and an Intensive Care Unit for 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 the school