Teaching Self-Discipline: The Responsive Classroom Guide to Helping Students Dream, Behave, and Achieve in Elementary School

Help students develop the intrinsic motivation to take care of themselves, each other, and their own learning! Readers will learn how to build a solid foundation for positive behavior by investing students in the rules. The techniques in this book have helped teachers around the world foster essential social-emotional and academic skills in the classroom creating learning environments where every student can thrive. Packed with real-life stories from K-5 classrooms, this book includes practical strategies for: creating effective rules that strengthen classroom community, responding to both common and complex misbehaviors, helping students who struggle with behavior due to trauma or toxic stress, communicating with parents and building a network of support for students, and much more!

Earl Hunter II is a fifth grade teacher at Oakwood Elementary School in North Hollywood, California, and a consulting teacher for Center for Responsive Schools. Earl has almost 30 years' experience educating children, dating back to his time working at his family's daycare center in Los Angeles. He developed a love for Responsive Classroom in his ninth year of teaching when he moved to his second school, Echo Horizon, and has been using the approach for over a decade. Earl is most passionate about making connections with students and colleagues and believes deeply in the power of developing a positive community. Now in his 20th year in the classroom, he aims to inspire, empower, and transform teachers to understand the power and balance of academic, social, and emotional learning for students. When he is not training teachers in Responsive Classroom practices, Earl enjoys spending time with his wife and two teenage children and running their retail vintage clothing business together.