The Classroom Behavior Manual: How to Build Relationships with Students, Share Control, and Teach Positive Behaviors

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Positive student behaviors are desired outcomes, but this manual concentrates on inputs. How do you respond to difficult behavior in the moment when you know that punitive, compliance-based behavior management is so often ineffectual? What's the best way to prevent students from acting out in the first place? The path to success requires behavioral leadership, in which teachers strategically model and affirm the behaviors they want to see in students.

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

A Dramatic Proposition

Chapter 2. Before You Begin

Before They Arrive

Part 1. Relationship-Building Strategies

About the authors

Scott Ervin has worked with extremely difficult, at-risk, abused, and neglected kids for more than two decades. He has served as a principal, superintendent, and discipline specialist. As a consultant and founder of Ervin Educational Consulting, he has traveled the country teaching parents and educators alike how to be calm and assertive with children.

Ervin has taught classroom management as an adjunct professor at Antioch University Midwest and as a visiting lecturer at Ohio University, University of Dayton, and Wright State University. He also writes a syndicated newspaper column, "Ask the Kid Whisperer." For more information, go to the website or email.

Book details

Product No.

122033

ISBN

978-1-4166-3078-4

Release Date

February 2022

Page Count

276

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Topics in this book

Classroom Management

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Acknowledgments

There is no possible way that this book would have ever been completed without my wife, Jessica Ervin. Her talents as a teacher of children, an editor, a collaborator, a critic, a mother, a thinker, a problem solver, and a person who always knows where I left my keys made this book what it is. She put at least as much effort into the creation of this manual as I did. I love you, Jess.

We couldn't have written this book without our daughter, Violet Ervin. She was always understanding when we had to work long hours on this book and was patient when conversations at the dinner table would drift to work, to editing, or to the book's content. I love you, Vi, and I am inspired by who you are and who you will become.

Bob Sornson, your wisdom knows no bounds. Your mentorship guided me before, during, and, hopefully, after publishing this book. Our conversations led me to greater understandings of what it is that I am working toward and what this book should be.

To my mentor, Jim Fay. All I ever wanted to be was a teacher and a dad. Without you, I wouldn't have been very good at either. This book could never have been written without you because, without you, I would not have survived my third year of teaching. When they write about the most important people in the history of education, anything without your name will be incomplete.

Bill Pflaum, your singular genius enabled you to see an actual book within my original "angry manifesto." Your insight, advice, selfless hard work, brilliant ideas, and wisdom transformed this manual from something barely readable into something a publisher would be interested in.

Chris Dendy is a fantastic editor and author who understood our work and made it so much better. Thank you, Chris.

To Genny Ostertag, Allison Scott, Megan Doyle, and the entire team at ASCD for seeing the value in the book, for your expertise, for your know-how, your hard work, and your enthusiasm. I value our partnership, and I know that we will change the world together!

To my mother, Anice Ervin. Mom, you told me once that I had to be great. I heard what you said and understood what you meant. You inspire me to be a better person, which made this book possible.

To all K–12 educators. This book was not just written for you—it was written by you. I created these strategies and procedures from watching other teachers' best practices that worked but were not written down anywhere. I improved them, systematized them, and created something new and comprehensive in scope. Teachers are the experts. Behavioral leadership is a trade: something that you do, not something that you merely know about. This is a trade manual, created by and for educators.

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Acknowledgments

There is no possible way that this book would have ever been completed without my wife, Jessica Ervin. Her talents as a teacher of children, an editor, a collaborator, a critic, a mother, a thinker, a problem solver, and a person who always knows where I left my keys made this book what it is. She put at least as much effort into the creation of this manual as I did. I love you, Jess.

We couldn't have written this book without our daughter, Violet Ervin. She was always understanding when we had to work long hours on this book and was patient when conversations at the dinner table would drift to work, to editing, or to the book's content. I love you, Vi, and I am inspired by who you are and who you will become.

Bob Sornson, your wisdom knows no bounds. Your mentorship guided me before, during, and, hopefully, after publishing this book. Our conversations led me to greater understandings of what it is that I am working toward and what this book should be.

To my mentor, Jim Fay. All I ever wanted to be was a teacher and a dad. Without you, I wouldn't have been very good at either. This book could never have been written without you because, without you, I would not have survived my third year of teaching. When they write about the most important people in the history of education, anything without your name will be incomplete.

Bill Pflaum, your singular genius enabled you to see an actual book within my original "angry manifesto." Your insight, advice, selfless hard work, brilliant ideas, and wisdom transformed this manual from something barely readable into something a publisher would be interested in.

Chris Dendy is a fantastic editor and author who understood our work and made it so much better. Thank you, Chris.

To Genny Ostertag, Allison Scott, Megan Doyle, and the entire team at ASCD for seeing the value in the book, for your expertise, for your know-how, your hard work, and your enthusiasm. I value our partnership, and I know that we will change the world together!

To my mother, Anice Ervin. Mom, you told me once that I had to be great. I heard what you said and understood what you meant. You inspire me to be a better person, which made this book possible.

To all K–12 educators. This book was not just written for you—it was written by you. I created these strategies and procedures from watching other teachers' best practices that worked but were not written down anywhere. I improved them, systematized them, and created something new and comprehensive in scope. Teachers are the experts. Behavioral leadership is a trade: something that you do, not something that you merely know about. This is a trade manual, created by and for educators.