Empowering Discipline - Softcover

Phillips, Vicki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962848298 ISBN 13: 9780962848292

Publisher: Personal Development, 1999

Synopsis

EMPOWERING DISCIPLINE presents a new, more effective approach for changing inappropriate behavior in at-risk students. Most school discipline programs attempt to CONTROL student behavior. When this approach fails, schools attempt to tighten their control, which usually results in these students escalating their negative behavior. Students with no aspirations, who feel they have nothing to lose, can end up "winning" any power struggle because they don't care about our "consequences." In contrast, EMPOWERING DISCIPLINE recognizes the need of most at-risk students to be self-directed. It is filled with practical strategies for working with students instead of against them by putting them in charge of their educational program.

About this title

About the Author

Vicki Phillips, M.Ed., was principal of an award-winning alternative high school for at-risk students for 22 years. In 1991 she began to self-publish PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, a one-semester curriculum designed to build character and resiliency in at-risk adolescents. By 1995 she resigned her principalship to further promote this curriculum and to give educator workshops nationwide. Over 1000 copies of this curriculum have been purchased by schools and organizations. She has written two books, EMPOWERING DISCIPLINE and TURNING THEM AROUND.

Edition details

• Publisher: Personal Development
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962848298
• ISBN 13: 9780962848292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116