What Is Our Classroom Management Professional Development?
Our classroom management professional development is a consistent and research-based system that helps schools recover valuable instructional time and improve overall school climate.
It is an evidence-based, highly successful set of classroom management strategies that tens of thousands of teachers have been using for over four decades. Our guiding principle reflects our commitment to measurable success: “In God we trust, all others bring your data.”
Our research spans six decades, and we have carefully refined our strategies based on what works in real classrooms. We have retained only those approaches that are verifiable, replicable, and supported by current and prominent educational researchers like Robert Marzano. Any strategies that have not consistently produced results have been discarded.
If you are selected to become one of our elite national trainers, you will have the opportunity to meet the original program developers and learn firsthand how our program began and gained national recognition. Part of the development of our strategies came through the guidance of Dr. Madeline Hunter, professor of education at UCLA, and John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach and American icon, also from UCLA. Their influence helped shape the foundational principles that have made our program so successful.
Becoming part of our national training team means joining a program that is deeply connected to important educational history and tradition in America. If you haven’t already explored our success data, we encourage you to click here to review case studies from elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as entire districts. You can also click here to read a recent article in Leadership magazine, which highlights the dramatic impact we’ve had on reducing dropout rates at an at-risk alternative high school in Northern California.
If you are currently using one of the excellent classroom management programs available today, our strategies will enhance that program’s effectiveness. If your school has adopted a reading, math, writing, or other content-area curriculum, our strategies will help teachers deliver that material more effectively than ever before. No matter what program or philosophy you have adopted, our strategies will amplify the strengths of that program and eliminate any obstacles that may be interfering with your teachers’ ability to teach or deliver the curriculum.
Our impact extends far beyond improving student behavior. Schools that have adopted our strategies consistently report:
- Increased teacher job satisfaction
- Improved student academic performance
- Significant reduction in student referrals
- Lower dropout rates and fewer suspensions
- A more positive classroom and school culture
- The achievement of long-sought systemic cultural change
Our goal is not to replace existing school discipline systems—although this happens regularly in schools across America. You may choose to adopt our full set of strategies to bring about positive systemic change, or you may select specific strategies to enhance your current program. In fact, many of our competitors have trainers who also work with us. The feedback we consistently hear from them is, “This program fills in all the holes.”
We make other programs better. If you’ve invested time and money in a program that isn’t delivering the results you expected, we can help it succeed in ways you originally envisioned. Or, if you choose to use our strategies as a complete replacement for your current system, we are confident that our program is the most effective solution available.
If you’re ready to elevate your school’s classroom management and overall culture, we invite you to explore our school success data and read the recent article about our proven impact. Our classroom management professional development can help you achieve the success you’ve been striving for.