The Educator's Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs: ASCD

by Mark Boynton and Christine Boynton

Book Overview

As every educator knows, even the best-performing schools have occasional discipline issues. In The Educator's Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs, Mark and Christine Boynton provide a framework for preventing as many discipline problems as possible--and for dealing with them effectively when they do arise.

This framework includes four principal components: positive relationships with students, clearly defined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416606114
• ISBN13: 9781416606116
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Invaluable to any educator

There's no way around it - no matter how great your school is, it's inevitable that you'll encounter a disciplinary issue. "The Educator's Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs" seeks to provide a framework for preventing as many disciplinary problems as they possibly can - and grant advice for dealing with unavoidable ones that will come up. For principal components: clearly defined parameters of student behavior, effective monitoring of students, positive relationships with students, and appropriate consequences for misbehavior create the foundation of "The Educator's Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs." Authors Mark (a retired elementary & middle school principal & teacher) & his wife Christine Boynton (an elementary school principal herself) provide everything an educator needs to make an effective disciplinary policy for their schools. Enhanced with a Frequently Asked Questions section, a bibliography, and a comprehensive index, ""The Educator Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs" is invaluable to any educator who is in charge of such things in their school and for community library education shelves in general.