This classic intervention program is designed to teach adolescents to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives. The program's three-part approach includes training in Prosocial Skills, Anger Control, and Moral Reasoning. Aggression Replacement Training (ART) has been used successfully throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is a user friendly and teacher oriented program. The manual includes summaries of ART's outcome evaluations and discusses a wide range of applications in schools and other settings. Appendices contain over 100 pages of guidelines, checklists, and more.

Best Behavior: Participant Training Manual, Preliminary Edition Building Positive Behavior Support in Schools
by: Jeffrey Sprague, Ph.D. Annemieke Golly, Ph.D.

This highly acclaimed schoolwide program is based on a compilation of the most recent and comprehensive research on student discipline. Best Behavior effectively addresses the three primary ranges of student discipline: All students (whole school), Some students (classroom or small groups needing more explicit behavioral instruction), and a Few students (individuals who have more significant behavioral and social needs).

BEST Practices Behavioral and Educational Strategies for Teachers
by: H. Kenton Reavis, Ed.D. (1942-2001) William R. Jenson, Ph.D. Daniel P. Morgan, Ph.D. Debra J. Andrews, M.S. Susan L. Fister, M.Ed. Mae Taylor, Ph.D.

Based on a widely acclaimed program developed by the Utah State Office of Education, BEST Practices: Behavioral and Educational Strategies for Teachers offers 12 concise descriptions of today’s best educational practices. The classroom-tested techniques in this book have been shown to work in a majority of situations where disruptive behavior and nonmotivation are factors.

Cool Kids Set A Proactive Approach to Social Responsibility
Karen A. Kemp, M.A. Susan L. Fister, M.Ed. Denise Conrad, Ed.D.

Positive classroom learning starts with positive social skills
Increase excitement about learning and create a climate of respect in your classroom using this student-focused program for teaching social skills. With Cool Kids’ easy-to-integrate skill steps and reinforcers, you will accentuate the positive, not the punitive, and lay a foundation for successful learning and classroom management. Rather than covering several social skills superficially, Cool Kids focuses on essential skills, so students learn to perform them automatically. You’ll gain techniques for embedding skill steps into everyday activities, setting high expectations that students can achieve, taking full advantage of teachable moments, and more.

David Goes to School
by: David Shannon

As David zips through his school, he discovers hat his least-favorite word, "no", is often spoken here: "NO, DAVID!" "No Yelling!" No pushing!" "No running in the halls!" This lighthearted companion to the Caldecott Honor book, NO, DAVID! Is an entertaining, laugh-out-loud romp from the beginning of class to the end of the day.

Get 'Em on Task - A Computer Signaling Program to Teach Attending and Self-Management Skills
by: R. Brad Althouse, M.S. William R. Jenson, Ph.D. Marilyn Likins, Ph.D. Daniel P. Morgan, Ph.D.

Auditory signaling that keeps students on task
With this easy-to-use computer program, teachers can create an individualized auditory signal system to monitor student behavior. The system (for a single student or for a group of students) supports any positive reinforcement or self-management program.

Get ‘Em on Task is flexible and easily tailored to meet specific needs. With its step-by-step instructions, teachers can decide how long the program will run, set the number of signals, determine whether they will occur randomly or on a regular schedule, and vary how the signals will sound. Educators can even create added incentive for students by generating “bonus” signals — signals that are worth more than others.

Inclusive Classroom, The: Strategies for Effective Instruction, Second Edition
by Margo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs

Written by highly respective researchers in the field, The Inclusive Classroom is a book that prepares readers to feel secure in their ability to instruct K-12 learners with disabilities and other special learning needs. General instruction and classroom management skills prevail throughout the book, enabling readers to construct instructional strategies through which they will find success. Comprehensive in scope and coverage, users will be interested in reading about the following topics: inclusive teaching; collaboration; students with higher-incidence disabilities; students with lower-level disabilities; students with other special learning needs; effective instruction for all students; improving classroom behavior and social skills; motivation and affect; improving attention and memory; teaching study skills; content area teaching, including art, music, physical education, foreign languages, vocational education, and transitions. Obviously a book for educators and future educators, this resource can be a valuable read for parents of children with special needs, as well as those in the educational arena that plan curricula for those children.

Low-Level Aggression: first steps on the ladder to violence
by: Arnold P. Goldstein

"Catch it low to prevent it high." This timely, one-of-a-kind manual addresses the too often overlooked problem of low-level aggression in schools and other settings. The author provides a series of useful strategies and tactics to help reduce and control low-level aggression -- behaviors such as teasing, cursing, bullying, and vandalism -- that when left unchecked often escalate into more serious forms of aggression and criminal activity. The book also discusses thought processes that promote aggression: misperceptions, rationalizations, and other thinking errors.

No Disposable Kids
Larry Brendtro, Ph.D. Arlin Ness, ACSW, LL.D. Martin Mitchell, Ed.D.

Fresh, positive, and effective strategies for those who come face-to-face with challenging youth.

Read about Tony, a boy responsible for one of the most destructive acts of school violence in history. Discover how he and others like him triumphed over “unprivileged” pasts through methods that are as unconventional as they are effective.

One-Minute Academic Functional Assessment and Interventions “Can’t” Do It . . . or “Won’t” Do It?
by: Joseph Witt, Ph.D. Ray Beck, Ed.D.

Discover “what works” for a student…
Here’s a great resource to help you quickly determine what conditions influence a student’s performance in school. One-Minute Academic Functional Assessment and Interventions offers a precise and easy technique to ascertain the causal factors affecting performance and detect if a student can’t do — or won’t do — the work. The strategy is based on the Precision Teaching model but adds several key conceptual elements that are important for conducting the One-Minute Academic Functional Assessment.

The Prepare Curriculum: Teaching Prosocial Competencies
by: Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein

This well-researched manual has been recently revised and expanded to include new and updated materials, procedures, and 93 supplementary exercises. Prepare presents a series of 10 course-length interventions grouped into three areas: reducing aggression, reducing stress, and reducing prejudice. It is designed for use with middle school and high school students and can also be adapted for use with younger students. The 93 supplementary exercises involve games, role plays, reading and writing, drawing, brainstorming, group discussion, relaxation, tape recordings, photography, and other hands-on activities. The book examines important issues such as behavior management, assessment, motivation, and transfer and maintenance of skills.

Responding to Problem Behavior in Schools
by Deanne A Crone, Robert Horner, Leanne S Hawken

Providing a time- and cost-effective framework for responding to moderate problem behavior and preventing the development of more serious difficulties, this book addresses a core need of elementary and middle school practitioners and educators. The Behavior Education Program is designed to help the 10-15% of students who fail to meet schoolwide disciplinary expectations but do not require the highest level of behavior support. No lengthy assessment process is required and groups of up to 30 students can participate, with minimal time and training demands on teachers and staff. Clear guidelines are delineated for conducting this proactive, research-based intervention that incorporates daily behavioral feedback, positive adult attention, and increased home-school collaboration. Presented in a large-size format with lay-flat binding to facilitate photocopying, the volume contains case examples and all needed resources for implementation, including reproducible daily progress reports, student handouts, and planning tools.
Note: A more intensive intervention for students with chronic or severe problem behavior is presented in the complementary volume, Building Positive Behavior Support Systems in Schools.

Safe, Supportive, and Successful Schools Step by Step
by: David Osher, Ph.D. Kevin Dwyer, M.A., NCSP Stephanie Jackson, Ph.D.

Educational professionals envision schools with positive, nurturing climates - free from emotional stress and physical violence - where all children can learn and grow. This all-inclusive resource will help translate this vision into a comprehensive action plan, from development and implementation to sustaining and regulating. It will also help your planning team avoid common mistakes by providing vital information in advance: needs assessments, financial planning, funding resources, staff support strategies, surveys, checklists, and much more.

School-Based Interventions for Students With Behavior Problems
by: Julie M. Bowen William R. Jenson Elaine Clark

School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems is a book about helping children and adolescents who engage in severe behaviors to positively succeed in the school setting. The emphasis of this book is on the prevention of behavior problems through structuring the instructional environment and teaching appropriate skills-and intervention to reduce problems with practical, proven, and positive procedures. This book is designed for educators faced with the daily challenge of instructing students with behavior problems, social skill deficits, and academic delays. It is designed for teachers as well as those who work with teachers and students; school administrators, counselors, special educators, and school psychologists. In searching for effective behavioral, social skill, and academic strategies, the authors have reviewed hundreds of research-validated studies to select techniques applicable to varied instructional settings within the school. The orientation and contents of this book represent the authors' experience and professional training in teaching, clinical work, and research involving students with behavior problems over the last 25 years.

School Refusal Behavior in Youth : A Functional Approach to Assessment and Treatment
by: "Christopher A. Kearney, PhD"

From the child who gets sick on test-taking days to the teen who skips class to have a smoke with friends, the reasons and manifestations of school refusal are diverse. In School Refusal Behavior in Youth, Christopher Kearney discusses both the historical context and common strategies for treating the problem, offering a cutting-edge, empirically based approach. This functional model can help clinicians weigh multiple symptoms and, ultimately, generate a clear focus on the factors that are maintaining the behavior.

Social Skills Intervention Guide Practical Strategies for Social Skills Training
Authors: Stephen N. Elliot and Frank M. Gresham

Now you can tie intervention strategies directly to assessment with this powerful treatment manual. Use it to plan remediation based on problems identified by the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) - or for teaching social skills in any setting. Includes the most effective methods available for planning intervention and developing missing prosocial skills.

Teaching Effective Classroom Routines and Classroom Coaches
by: Joseph Witt, Ph.D. Lynn LaFleur, Ph.D. Gale Naquin, Ph.D. Donna Gilbertson, M.A.

In as little as five to ten minutes a day, you can teach routines that will greatly increase instructional time. The secret to success as a teacher is setting up systems that actually prevent problems in the classroom. Now you can set up preventive routines that will keep your students on task and learning throughout the year. With Teaching Effective Classroom Routines and its companion Classroom Coaches (cue cards), you’ll learn fun and simple techniques to make teaching and learning essential routines more enjoyable. Moreover, the book offers specific methods that ensure student compliance.

Teacher's Encyclopedia of Behavior Management 100 Problems/500 Plans
by: Randy S. Sprick, Ph.D. Lisa M. Howard, M.S.

These effective intervention strategies will help you address more than 100 common classroom problems, which are listed alphabetically, cross-referenced, and indexed for ease of use. Up to six detailed, step-by-step strategies for each of the 100 situations can be found in this quick reference guide, allowing you to select an implementation plan that matches the origin, duration, and severity of just about any classroom difficulty you are facing.

Think Time® Strategy for Schools: Bringing Order to the Classroom
by: J. Ron Nelson, Ph.D. Beth Ann Carr

Imagine how much easier teaching would be with a proven strategy that provides one consistent response for all disruptive behaviors — not multiple solutions for different occasions.

Think Time is such a program, designed to cut short negative social exchanges, provide students with feedback and a plan for future performance, and increase future opportunities for students to interact positively with teachers and classmates.

Tough Kid Book Practical Classroom Management Strategies
by: Ginger Rhode, Ph.D. William R. Jenson, Ph.D. H. Kenton Reavis, Ed.D. (1942-2001)

Here’s a solution for managing challenging students!
When students’ aggression, tantrums, noncompliance, and poor academic performance thwart progress in your classroom and discourage you as a teacher, it’s time to get help. The Tough Kid Book offers creative techniques that are not only effective, but can be implemented without costly materials or a big time investment.

The Tough Kid Parent Book: Why Me? Practical Solutions to Tough Childhood Problems
by: William R. Jenson, Ph.D. Ginger Rhode, Ph.D. Melanie Hepworth Neville, M.A.

Here’s a solution for managing challenging students!
When you talk to parents about their “tough kids,” how often do you hear them say, “Why me?”

Now there’s The Tough Kid Parent Book to teach parents how to increase positive family interactions, reduce noncompliance and arguing, develop good habits in their children, and establish a much-needed link between home and school. The strategies are research based, easy to learn and implement, fun to use, and they work! Parents can use the book on their own or form study groups with other parents. And, the reproducible forms on CD-ROM make implementation even easier!

Tough Kid Tool Box
by: William R. Jenson, Ph.D. Ginger Rhode, Ph.D. H. Kenton Reavis, Ed.D. (1942-2001)

Here’s a solution for managing challenging students!
These in-depth explanations and strategies will further help you teach challenging students. Troubleshooting tips are offered in every chapter, as are “making-it-even-better” ideas that show you how to improvise or enhance interventions. Most helpful, however, are the reproducible, timesaving forms - Mystery Motivators, Bingo Cards, Home Notes, and more!

What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action

What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action is a book that highlights all 11 factors that are most likely to influence student academic achievement and provides tools and action steps to implement a clear plan for school improvement.