Turn your vision of respectful, friendly, academically rigorous classrooms into reality. This definitive work about classroom management shows you how to:

• Set priorities and expectations with children
• Establish classroom routines
• Generate rules with students and using logical consequences
• Work with families and staff to support the rules
• Plan and conduct individual conferences and class meetings
• Avoid power struggles
• Choose effective teacher language and tone
• Help children with challenging behavior problems

Ruth Charney gives teachers help on things that really matter. She wants children to learn how to care for themselves, their fellow students, their environment, and their work. Her book is loaded with practical wisdom. Using Charney’s positive approach to classroom management will make the whole school day go better. —Nel Noddings, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, and author of Caring

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