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Get better at handling behaviors that disrupt classrooms and interfere with learning. This practical guide includes an overview of the Responsive Classroom approach to discipline and simple, effective techniques for addressing:

Listening and attention challenges

Teasing

Cliques and exclusion

Tattling

Defiance

Disengagement

Silliness and showing off

Too much physical contact

Dishonesty

Frustration and meltdowns

Veteran educator and Responsive Classroom consultant Margaret Berry Wilson helps you understand why students sometimes misbehave and how a positive, respectful approach to discipline can transform your classroom. For each problem behavior, she explains which proactive strategies to use, how to respond most effectively when children misbehave, and how to talk with parents.

Margaret Berry Wilson taught first and second graders for fifteen years. She is now a Responsive Classroom consultant. She wrote the kindergarten, first grade, and second grade books in the What Every Teacher Needs series, and is co-author of Doing Math in Morning Meeting.