Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan: A Guide for Principals and Leadership Teams

Geoff Colvin

SAGE Publications, Apr 5, 2007 - Education - 133 pages

Keep your school on track with this powerful research-based behavior management tool!

This practical handbook offers administrators and school leaders a seven-step process for effectively preparing and implementing a schoolwide behavior discipline plan. Developed from a five-year federally funded project, this collaborative, proactive tool has been field-tested successfully in over 60 schools nationwide. Offering user-friendly forms and checklists, the author provides explicit instructions to help educators:

• Define the purpose of the plan
• Establish schoolwide behavior expectations
• Teach and sustain behavior expectations
• Correct problem behaviors
• Collect and utilize data
• Maintain the plan over time

About the author

Geoff Colvin draws on his experience as a classroom teacher, administrator, researcher and instructor at the University of Oregon, and national public school consultant. Widely recognized as an expert on the subjects of school safety and violence prevention, Colvin has provided inservice training for teachers and administrators in more than 100 school districts and agencies nationally and internationally. He recently served as research associate at the University of Oregon and independent consultant in the areas of schoolwide discipline, school climate, school safety, and violence prevention, classroom management, and individual cases involving students with severe behavior disorders. Geoff also directed a juvenile detention school and a school program for youth with serious emotionally disturbances. Colvin has authored more than sixty publications, books, book chapters, journal articles, and video programs on the subject of teaching and managing students who exhibit the full range of problem behavior.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan: A Guide for Principals and Leadership Teams
• Author: Geoff Colvin
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2007
• ISBN: 1412950988, 9781412950985
• Length: 133 pages
• Subjects: Education / Administration / General; Education / Behavioral Management; Education / General; Education / Special Education / Learning Disabilities; Education / Teaching / General