Description
The research-based CHAMPS approach will help teachers create highly successful classroom management plans that will:
- Include high expectations for all students’ success
- Build positive relationships with students
- Create consistent, predictable classroom routines
- Teach students how to behave successfully
- Observe and monitor student behavior and data
- Provide frequent positive feedback
- Correct misbehavior in a calm, consistent, and fluent manner
CHAMPS and Discipline the Secondary Classroom are companion processes to improve student behavior within the classroom. CHAMPS is designed for K-8 Classrooms and Discipline in the Secondary Classroom is designed for 9-12 classrooms.
WHAT’S NEW IN THIS EDITION
CHAMPS is organized to more closely follow the STOIC framework as it guides you through assessing your and your students’ needs and developing your Classroom Management Plan. New material covers:
- How the CHAMPS approach aligns with initiatives such as multi-tiered systems of support for behavior (MTSS-B), social-emotional learning priorities, and trauma-informed practice
- Acknowledging and appreciating diversity and improving equity, inclusion, and access by reflecting on existing regularities in discipline planning and identifying better practices that help all students thrive and achieve their full potential
- Centering positive relationships at the foundation of your management approach by using strategies to consciously build and maintain relational trust with students and families
- The importance of maintaining and communicating high expectations for all students, and strategies for doing so
- Procedures for managing partner and cooperative group work and student technology use
- Implementing behavior management practices in the virtual learning environment
Click here for more on what’s new in this edition of CHAMPS. Click here if you’re looking for the second edition of CHAMPS.
TESTIMONIALS
“We have been using . . . the CHAMPS approach in our work for over 10 years. Across our county, we have been delighted to see this approach easily used by staff in districts and schools with favorable academic, behavioral, and social-emotional outcomes, including a decrease in suspensions and expulsions, increased attendance, higher academic achievement, and most importantly, staff and student connectedness.”
— Jane Wagmeister, Ed.D., Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Ventura County Office of Education
“This book taught me more about classroom management than any other book I’ve read—and I’ve read a lot of them. If you want to create a learner-friendly environment in your classroom, this is the book you need to read.”
—Jim Knight, Senior Partner, Instructional Coaching Group