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The Tough Kid Book

Help Tough Kids succeed in school and in life!
Tough Kids combine behavioral excesses such as noncompliance, aggression, and tantrums with less obvious deficits in academic, self-management, and social skills. Tough Kids are a challenge, but you can use proactive, positive techniques to manage and motivate them.

The Tough Kid Book is for regular and special education teachers, counselors, instructional coaches, and any educator who wants effective and positively focused classrooms.

$49.00

Details:
2020 / Third Edition / 336 pp. and 27 fillable reproducible forms (and other materials) for download
ISBN:
978-1-59909-108-2
SKU:
108-2
For Grades:
  • 1–8
Series:
  • The Tough Kid
Authors:
  • Ginger Rhode
  • William R. Jenson
  • Natalie Allen Williams
  • H. Kenton Reavis
Type:
  • Book
Professions:
  • Behavior Support
  • Coaches
  • Counselors
  • Paras and Support Staff
  • School Psychologists
  • School Social Workers
  • Teachers
Area of Focus:
  • Behavior Interventions
  • Classroom Behavior
  • Description
  • Authors
  • Video
  • Training
  • Screener

Description

This book guides you through the process of identifying and assessing Tough Kids. It provides suggestions for structuring your classroom to ensure success for all kids—including the most difficult. Step-by-step instructions explain how to implement both positive and corrective strategies for classrooms, groups, and individual students. Advanced behavior strategies such as Tootling, Contracts, Self-Monitoring, and more are designed specifically for Tough Kids. For Tough Kids currently in special placements, the Tough Kid Generalization Model offers a detailed plan for returning them successfully to the general education classroom.

All techniques presented in The Tough Kid Book have been shown to be effective by rigorous research.

New and updated in the third edition:

  • Advanced strategies such as Tootling and Clean Your Plate to teach and encourage Tough Kids to demonstrate positive behaviors such as praising classmates and completing their independent work
  • Techniques to improve academic engagement and performance
  • Tips for using a functional behavior assessment to uncover the function of a misbehavior
  • Executive functioning skills and the Tough Kid
  • How to select and teach classroom rules

The companion book, The Tough Kid Tool Box, provides ready-to-use reproducibles and detailed directions for implementing many of the behavior management strategies presented in The Tough Kid Book.

 

Endorsements

Over the years, The Tough Kid Book and its companion, The Tough Kid Tool Box, have defined the gold standard for effective intervention with students who experience behavioral-emotional challenges in their schooling. The authors of these superb, teacher-friendly products are broadly known for their ground-level understanding of the challenges teaches face in managing the behavior of tough kids.

These authors’ collective experience and perspectives have enabled them to produce products that provide the answers teachers and related school staff are searching for. These are rarefied skills indeed and are clearly reflected throughout the design and presentation of the material in these two products.

The Tough Kid Book incorporates the most up-to-date discoveries and best-practice strategies available and presents them in a highly usable format. I recommend this book without reservation and believe it should be an integral part of every teacher’s “toolbox.”

—Hill M. Walker, Professor of Special Education and codirector of the Institute on
Violence and Destructive Behavior, University of Oregon,
and Senior Research Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute

 

We have used The Tough Kid Book and The Tough Kid Tool Box for decades in our school-based research. They are simply unparalleled in the field. The Tough Kid materials provide a one-stop resource for behavior consultants, coaches, interventionists, and teachers. They are easy to use and comprehensive in their approach. Most importantly, the strategies work! We consistently turn to the Tough Kid materials when consulting with teachers and parents who are searching for solutions for dealing with tough kids in their classrooms and homes. We can’t wait to use the new strategies! They are excellent additions to the tried-and-true methods and a welcome addition to an already exceptional resource. Hands down, The Tough Kid Book and The Tough Kid Tool Box are the most important materials in schools today. Every educator should have these!

—Susan M. Sheridan, Director, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families,
and Schools; George Holmes University Professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

 

What distinguishes The Tough Kid Book from other resources for evidence-based strategies that get students to follow classroom rules and comply with teacher requests? Rhode, Jenson,,and Williams have distilled decades of research and experience with hundreds of teachers into tactics that not only prevent and manage problem behavior, they build students’ repertoires. A treasure-trove of reliable methods for teaching disruptive and disagreeable students to assume responsibility for their own behavior, desire and achieve academic success, and look out for the welfare of others. The Tough Kid Book can help teachers transform out-of-control classrooms into safe, productive, and fun learning environments.

—William L. Heward, Ed.D., BCBA-D, Professor Emeritus, College of Education and
Human Ecology, The Ohio State University

  • Ginger Rhode

    Ginger Rhode, Ph.D., is the deputy superintendent for academic achievement in the Canyons School District in Sandy, Utah. Previous assignments in other school districts have included director of special education, director of federal and state programs, elementary school principal, junior high school vice principal, and teacher in elementary and secondary classrooms for severe behavior disordered/emotionally disturbed students. Her main areas of interest and expertise include classroom and schoolwide management, social skills training, generalization and maintenance of behavior, legal issues affecting students with disabilities, and providing a rigorous academic environment for all students.

  • William R. Jenson

    William R. Jenson, Ph.D., is a professor and past chair of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in School Psychology/Applied Behavior Analysis from Utah State University in 1975. He directed the Adolescent Residential Unit in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Children's Behavior Therapy Unit (CBTU) for Salt Lake Mental Health. CBTU is a day hospital program for severely emotionally disturbed and autistic children. Dr. Jenson's interests include behavior management for severe behavior problems, behavioral assessment, school-based interventions, parent training, applied technology, and meta-analytic research.

  • Natalie Allen Williams

    Dr. Natalie Allen Williams is a professor in Teacher Education and co-director of the CAPES! (Children’s Adaptive Physical Education Society) program at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. She was selected as the recipient of the 2018–2019 Presidential Teaching Excellence Award at Weber State University. Dr. Williams received her Ph.D. in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis at The Ohio State University in 2005. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Utah State University and the University of Utah, respectively, and has worked at both the state and district levels supporting students with behavior disorders in a variety of school settings. She worked on Utah’s BEST (Behavioral and Educational Strategies for Teachers) project from 1998–2001. Her interests include supporting students with behavior disorders in the classroom both academically and socially.

  • H. Kenton Reavis

    Dr. Ken Reavis, our honored colleague and former collaborator with The Tough Kid Series, passed away in 2001. Dr. Reavis’s work continues to benefit teachers, administrators, resource personnel, and parents today and to influence us as well. Dr. Reavis’s extensive educational experience in the field as classroom teacher, university professor, and administrator was reflected in his research, writing, and presentations. Most of all, Ken loved Tough Kids!

Companion Book

The Tough Kid Tool Box

William R. Jenson, Ginger Rhode, Natalie Allen Williams, H. Kenton Reavis

$43.00

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