behavior modification

"Helps kids and adults master critical social-emotional skills, encourages student leadership, provides effective and compassionate behavior management strategies, and raises academic performance. With dozens of fun and easy-to-do activities and community meeting agendas, this book provides everything you need to create a positive learning environment in any classroom, school, or school community"--Amazon.com.

Offers teachers of kindergarten through fifth grade more than one hundred effective strategies for helping hard-to-handle students find success and independence in the classroom.

A teacher's guide to improving students' behavior and attitudes.

Presents forty-five classroom management strategies that focus on cultural responsiveness to boost engagement and discipline.

Examines the culture of fear created by media, parents, schools, and the legal profession surrounding bullying and childhood aggression. Discusses how the language used to describe social dynamics between children affect adults' and students' ability to deal with bullying. Offers suggestions for better school practices and policies.

When Max tries to make friends with the new boy at school and everything seems to backfire, Max makes up a secret game to calm his nerves.

Meet Maximus Todd! He's the kid who can't sit still! Max calms his fears about getting a needle at the doctor's office by playing a game that involves all the animals on the farm. Can he make it out of the office without everyone thinking he's coming down with more than the fidgets? Max finds that while it's not always easy being a kid -- especially if you're a bit different -- there is often humour, kindness and love in the most unexpected places.