As anyone who has done playground duty can attest, recess is not just fun and games anymore. Challenging behaviors, defiance, noncompliance, harassment and bullying create unsafe situations that can affect the physical, emotional and psychological safety of children.  This one of a kind book systematically remedies these issues by providing the format to:

  - Implement a system that solves 100% of your
   discipline problems.
  - Put a stop to bullying and harassment for good!
  - Teach all students how to behave on the
   playground, demonstrate good sportsmanship
   and resolve conflicts.
  - Recognize and teach effective response styles
   that encourage pro-social behavior.
  - Utilize a checklist to assess your playground
   personnel for necessary supervisory skills.
  - Assess your playground for safety issues:
   including policies for visitors, accidents,
   equipment and emergencies

And MANY more ideas!

Complete with all of the information and reproducibles necessary to implement the plan in your school immediately and effectively.
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The Ultimate Playground Guide:
Solving Common DisciplineProblems K-6.

The most comprehensive, user-friendly book of its kind!
Assessing Behavior in Children:
A Workbook for Solving Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood Settings

Essential for preschool and primary teachers!
All children have behaviors that can be concerning at times. For those of us who work in early childhood settings, we are increasingly finding that the normal antics typical to young children are being replaced by challenging and difficult behaviors that can be, at least, disruptive, and at worst, destructive. Many who working early childhood settings feel ill equipped to handle the behavioral and mental health concerns they are being confronted with today.

By systematically utilizing proven practices, current research and practical strategies, this straightforward manual takes the early childhood educator step by step through the process in solving challenging behaviors. Practical strategies, reproducibles, and user friendly checklists make this manual a MUST for anyone who works with young children.
The Adventures of Indigo

Includes Free Teachers Edition
Join Indigo the bumbling blue balloon as he experiences a coming-of-age adventure intended to be read aloud to your students to generate discussion regarding social skills. This naive and engaging character must adapt to the trials and tribulations of life: loss, natural disaster, adapting to new cultures, learning social skills, making friends, conflict resolution, appreciating diversity, & learning the value of personal goal setting, and sets an example for all youth. The book is appropriate for K-5 students and contains valuable chapter questions to help facilitate discussion with students in examining these issues.
Beautifully illustrated with
watercolor paintings that will
engage the imaginations of
young and old alike.
Dealing with Difficult Parents:
A Survival Guide for Teachers

Pratical exercises & effective tips
Dealing with parents of the students that we teach can be some of the most challenging experiences that teachers face in their jobs.  In this manual you will work through practial exercises and learn, simple effective tips for dealing with all sorts of parents including the demanding, critical, helicopter, and passive aggressive.

A few of the things that you will learn in this practical 100 page manual are:

- Effective response styles to use with all
  types of parents
- The dynamics of conflict
- How to document parent contacts effectively
- Dealing with unscheduled visits to school
- Dealing with persistent, unwarranted
  phone calls from demanding parents
- How to prevent being threatened with legal action
- What to do when accused of wrongdoing
- How to handle a tirade
Successful Strategies for working with
Challenging Elementary Students
Teachers spend eighty percent of their time with twenty percent of their students! It is the challenging students that get our attention, but many teacher use ineffective strategies with the challenging child that can actually exacerbate misbehaviors unnecessarily.

In this highly sought manual, you will find dozens of strategies for dealing effectively with challenging elementary children.  Included are reproducibles for travel cards, behavior essays, point systems, behavior charts, as well as the best practices for establishing behavior intervention plans and alternative learning environments simply and immediately.

You CAN”T do without this book!
Put a stop to the mystery of children who demonstrate explosive behaviors by using the practical strategies loaded in this easy to read manual!  Children who are sensory-sensitive are not trying to be difficult, disobedient or oppositional. They are desperately trying to make meaning from a bombardment of sensory information that is confusing, exhausting and frightening. How do you as a teacher decipher the difference between behaviors that might be resulting from sensory problems, emotional difficulties, other disorders or just plain willful disobedience? And even if you could tell the difference, what do you DO about it?

This book is easy to read, convenient, practical and loaded with effective strategies that work in all types of classrooms. One hundred ideas for learning center activities, handouts, easy to implement accommodations, and modifications for children with sensory problems so that you can make interventions that are lasting and produce positive change as well as make your work with these kids enjoyable, meaningful and peaceful. Great for PreK-8 classroom teachers, special education teachers, school psychologists, specialists, counselors and educational assistants.
Ideas That Work!

For children with sensory integration disorders
and their difficult behaviors
Proceeds from Kathryn's Ultimate Playground Guide helped to build a playground
for a school in need......d
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For schools and teams trying to make sense of RTI this book is a MUST-HAVE in solving BEHAVIORAL ISSUES from grades k-12.

Using best educational practices, research-driven interventions and programs sanctioned by state and federal agencies your school will have the simplest, most effective process that is easy to implement and completely defensible.

A user friendly workbook with dozens of practical strategies as well as resources online and in print.
Using the Response to Intervention Model for Difficult and Disruptive Students
FREE! Teacher's edition with your purchase of The Adventures of Indigo.
Incentive Packet Pads
A great system for providing positives four times more than reprimands.

Each pad includes 50 green "Way To Go" slips and 13 pink "Oops" tickets.
Single Pad
Set of 10 Pads
Set of 20 Pads
A Smooth Ride

Practical Strategies for Managing
Student Behaviors on the Bus
An informative, illustrated, activity-based workbook that is the ULTIMATE guide for today's bus driver and trainer. Dozens of practical ideas for dealing with minor behaviors, setting up a management plan that is proven to reduce problematic behaviors by 70%.

Strategies for working with more intense behaviors are provided in detail, including:

-behavior cards
-plans
-discipline essays
-strategies for dealing with cursing, intimidation,
  bullying, fights and aggressive behaviors.

Also provided are ideas for working with students who have ADHD, autism, learning disabilities and oppositional defiant behaviors.

NO DRIVER or TRAINER should be without this book!   Group discounts rates available
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